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Commit 0886196c authored by Jason Gunthorpe's avatar Jason Gunthorpe Committed by Alex Williamson
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vfio: Use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for userspace persistent allocations



Use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT for userspace persistent allocations.

The GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT option lets the memory allocator know that this
is untrusted allocation triggered from userspace and should be a subject
of kmem accounting, and as such it is controlled by the cgroup
mechanism.

The way to find the relevant allocations was for example to look at the
close_device function and trace back all the kfrees to their
allocations.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYishai Hadas <yishaih@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230108154427.32609-4-yishaih@nvidia.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarAlex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
parent 83ff6095
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