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Commit 3e79ec7d authored by Vladimir Davydov's avatar Vladimir Davydov Committed by Linus Torvalds
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arch: x86: charge page tables to kmemcg



Page tables can bite a relatively big chunk off system memory and their
allocations are easy to trigger from userspace, so they should be
accounted to kmemcg.

This patch marks page table allocations as __GFP_ACCOUNT for x86.  Note
we must not charge allocations of kernel page tables, because they can
be shared among processes from different cgroups so accounting them to a
particular one can pin other cgroups for indefinitely long.  So we clear
__GFP_ACCOUNT flag if a page table is allocated for the kernel.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7d5c54f6a2bcbe76f03171689440003d87e6c742.1464079538.git.vdavydov@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 5e8d35f8
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