Re: [RFC PATCH] memcg: adjust memcg used to charge for new simple_xattrs objects

[Michal Koutný]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 12:10:45PM +0300, Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> sys_set[f]xattr uses simple_xattr infrastructure to create a new
> extended attribute for in-memory file systems like sysfs and tmpfs.
> Number and size of allocated objects are controlled by user space,
> they are always living in memory and its lifetime is indefinitely long.
> Therefore this memory should be properly accounted.
> 
> By default new memory is accounted to memcg of creator process.

despite objects aren't bound to this process lifetime.

(I think this was the main argument for this approach and should be in
the commit message then.)

> As a result, neighboring xattrs of the same inode can be charged to
> different memcgs. This looks unexpected and makes hard the
> investigation of the memcg accounting issues.
> 
> This patch adjust memcg used for such allocations. For kernfs
> it gives memcg from kernfs node, for shmem -- from shmem_info.
> This allows to cahrge all inode-sepcific objects to the same
> memory cgroup.

IIUC you intend to inherit association from shmem_inode_info (i.e.
whoever created the inode). shmem_inode_cachep has SLAB_ACCOUNT, so it's valid.

Thanks,
Michal