Re: [PATCH 2/2] seq_file: account everything

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Fri Mar 16 2018 - 08:43:50 EST


On Sat 10-03-18 11:52:52, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> All it takes to open a file and read 1 byte from it.
>
> seq_file will be allocated along with any private allocations,
> and more importantly seq file buffer which is 1 page by default.

OOM badness heuristic will not know about this memory when choosing an
oom victim so we might kill a wrong victim which is not all that great
but at least the consumption will be contained within a memcg which
sounds like the sufficient protection for now. This is the case
basically for all kmem charges...

The seq file life time should be bound to a process life time so this is
OK.

> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

> ---
>
> fs/seq_file.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/fs/seq_file.c
> +++ b/fs/seq_file.c
> @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ static void seq_set_overflow(struct seq_file *m)
>
> static void *seq_buf_alloc(unsigned long size)
> {
> - return kvmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
> + return kvmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
> }
>
> /**
> @@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ static void single_stop(struct seq_file *p, void *v)
> int single_open(struct file *file, int (*show)(struct seq_file *, void *),
> void *data)
> {
> - struct seq_operations *op = kmalloc(sizeof(*op), GFP_KERNEL);
> + struct seq_operations *op = kmalloc(sizeof(*op), GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
> int res = -ENOMEM;
>
> if (op) {
> @@ -628,7 +628,7 @@ void *__seq_open_private(struct file *f, const struct seq_operations *ops,
> void *private;
> struct seq_file *seq;
>
> - private = kzalloc(psize, GFP_KERNEL);
> + private = kzalloc(psize, GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
> if (private == NULL)
> goto out;
>
> @@ -1112,5 +1112,5 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_hlist_next_percpu);
>
> void __init seq_file_init(void)
> {
> - seq_file_cache = KMEM_CACHE(seq_file, SLAB_PANIC);
> + seq_file_cache = KMEM_CACHE(seq_file, SLAB_ACCOUNT|SLAB_PANIC);
> }

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs