From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78449C433E0 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 20:42:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kanga.kvack.org (kanga.kvack.org [205.233.56.17]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A0365285 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 20:42:31 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 12A0365285 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux-foundation.org Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) id 83DBC8D0077; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 15:42:30 -0500 (EST) Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 40) id 7ECE08D001D; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 15:42:30 -0500 (EST) X-Delivered-To: int-list-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 63042) id 667D78D0077; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 15:42:30 -0500 (EST) X-Delivered-To: linux-mm@kvack.org Received: from forelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0116.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.116]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B7DC8D001D for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 15:42:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from smtpin20.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by forelay02.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 078114DBC for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 20:42:30 +0000 (UTC) X-FDA: 77897880060.20.700F6CF Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by imf10.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 931214080F44 for ; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 20:42:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1B45F64F09; Mon, 8 Mar 2021 20:42:28 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=linux-foundation.org; s=korg; t=1615236148; bh=Q+729RpzRWiSDmoA11m7P/RlPUtuXJidEKu+QeR4f/0=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=1yponGFO48b8sMeILoThXvXh9tf+Ef1H/UzKG0/b/7o2Tw5lIezwZ2bJ2+wEX3UmW vWfMeRlABfpwkoSlKzsWMqpPj/dFDXrIv2GV+x7cF1oHNKP+peFF1aLwYYyLFGi/Uj Z1hV9D/lK3y7sTFlvnWV6ocaAoI4OZqCDyjut2S8= Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2021 12:42:27 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Michal Hocko Cc: Zhou Guanghui , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, hannes@cmpxchg.org, hughd@google.com, kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com, npiggin@gmail.com, ziy@nvidia.com, wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com, guohanjun@huawei.com, dingtianhong@huawei.com, chenweilong@huawei.com, rui.xiang@huawei.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/memcg: set memcg when split page Message-Id: <20210308124227.f9b343f006d26ba8d47a959c@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <20210304074053.65527-1-zhouguanghui1@huawei.com> <20210304074053.65527-3-zhouguanghui1@huawei.com> <20210305155840.4bb6dea4fb473d9ffbe49c99@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Stat-Signature: 61dx7az5dczy7r6w8nyr3m4pjdkbdnqs X-Rspamd-Server: rspam05 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 931214080F44 Received-SPF: none (linux-foundation.org>: No applicable sender policy available) receiver=imf10; identity=mailfrom; envelope-from=""; helo=mail.kernel.org; client-ip=198.145.29.99 X-HE-DKIM-Result: pass/pass X-HE-Tag: 1615236146-831945 X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 09:41:38 +0100 Michal Hocko wrote: > On Fri 05-03-21 15:58:40, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 12:52:52 +0100 Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > > On Thu 04-03-21 07:40:53, Zhou Guanghui wrote: > > > > As described in the split_page function comment, for the non-compound > > > > high order page, the sub-pages must be freed individually. If the > > > > memcg of the fisrt page is valid, the tail pages cannot be uncharged > > > > when be freed. > > > > > > > > For example, when alloc_pages_exact is used to allocate 1MB continuous > > > > physical memory, 2MB is charged(kmemcg is enabled and __GFP_ACCOUNT is > > > > set). When make_alloc_exact free the unused 1MB and free_pages_exact > > > > free the applied 1MB, actually, only 4KB(one page) is uncharged. > > > > > > > > Therefore, the memcg of the tail page needs to be set when split page. > > > > > > > > > > As already mentioned there are at least two explicit users of > > > __GFP_ACCOUNT with alloc_exact_pages added recently. It would be good to > > > mention that explicitly and maybe even mention 7efe8ef274024 resp. > > > c419621873713 so that it is clear this is not just a theoretical issue. > > > > I added > > > > : Michel: > > : > > : There are at least two explicit users of __GFP_ACCOUNT with > > : alloc_exact_pages added recently. See 7efe8ef274024 ("KVM: arm64: > > : Allocate stage-2 pgd pages with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT") and c419621873713 > > : ("KVM: s390: Add memcg accounting to KVM allocations"), so this is not > > : just a theoretical issue. > > > > And should we cc:stable on this one? > > Somebody more familiar with iommu dma allocation layer should have a > look as well (__iommu_dma_alloc_pages) so that we know whether there are > kernels outside of the above two ones mentioned above that need a fix. > But in general this sounds like a good fit for the stable tree. OK. I reversed the order of these two patches so we don't need to burden -stable with a cosmetic rename.