Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] mm: convert page kmemcg type to a page memcg flag

[Shakeel Butt]

On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 10:26 AM Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> PageKmemcg flag is currently defined as a page type (like buddy,
> offline, table and guard). Semantically it means that the page
> was accounted as a kernel memory by the page allocator and has
> to be uncharged on the release.
>
> As a side effect of defining the flag as a page type, the accounted
> page can't be mapped to userspace (look at page_has_type() and
> comments above). In particular, this blocks the accounting of
> vmalloc-backed memory used by some bpf maps, because these maps
> do map the memory to userspace.
>
> One option is to fix it by complicating the access to page->mapcount,
> which provides some free bits for page->page_type.
>
> But it's way better to move this flag into page->memcg_data flags.
> Indeed, the flag makes no sense without enabled memory cgroups
> and memory cgroup pointer set in particular.
>
> This commit replaces PageKmemcg() and __SetPageKmemcg() with
> PageMemcgKmem() and an open-coded OR operation setting the memcg
> pointer with the MEMCG_DATA_KMEM bit. __ClearPageKmemcg() can be
> simple deleted, as the whole memcg_data is zeroed at once.
>
> As a bonus, on !CONFIG_MEMCG build the PageMemcgKmem() check will
> be compiled out.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>