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Commit 4d96ba35 authored by Roman Gushchin's avatar Roman Gushchin Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm: memcg/slab: stop setting page->mem_cgroup pointer for slab pages

Every slab page charged to a non-root memory cgroup has a pointer to the
memory cgroup and holds a reference to it, which protects a non-empty
memory cgroup from being released.  At the same time the page has a
pointer to the corresponding kmem_cache, and also hold a reference to the
kmem_cache.  And kmem_cache by itself holds a reference to the cgroup.

So there is clearly some redundancy, which allows to stop setting the
page->mem_cgroup pointer and rely on getting memcg pointer indirectly via
kmem_cache.  Further it will allow to change this pointer easier, without
a need to go over all charged pages.

So let's stop setting page->mem_cgroup pointer for slab pages, and stop
using the css refcounter directly for protecting the memory cgroup from
going away.  Instead rely on kmem_cache as an intermediate object.

Make sure that vmstats and shrinker lists are working as previously, as
well as /proc/kpagecgroup interface.

Link: http://lkm...
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