When kmem accounting switched from account by default to only account if
flagged by __GFP_ACCOUNT, IPC mqueue and messages was left out.
The production use case at hand is that mqueues should be customizable
via sysctls in Docker containers in a Kubernetes cluster. This can only
be safely allowed to the users of the cluster (without the risk that
they can cause resource shortage on a node, influencing other users'
containers) if all resources they control are bounded, i.e. accounted
for.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1476806075-1210-1-git-send-email-arozansk@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <arozansk@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Stefan Schimanski <sttts@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Schimanski <sttts@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
size_t alen;
alen = min(len, DATALEN_MSG);
- msg = kmalloc(sizeof(*msg) + alen, GFP_KERNEL);
+ msg = kmalloc(sizeof(*msg) + alen, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
if (msg == NULL)
return NULL;
while (len > 0) {
struct msg_msgseg *seg;
alen = min(len, DATALEN_SEG);
- seg = kmalloc(sizeof(*seg) + alen, GFP_KERNEL);
+ seg = kmalloc(sizeof(*seg) + alen, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
if (seg == NULL)
goto out_err;
*pseg = seg;