On Tue, 16 Oct 2012, Glauber Costa wrote: > When a process tries to allocate a page with the __GFP_KMEMCG flag, the > page allocator will call the corresponding memcg functions to validate > the allocation. Tasks in the root memcg can always proceed. > > To avoid adding markers to the page - and a kmem flag that would > necessarily follow, as much as doing page_cgroup lookups for no reason, > whoever is marking its allocations with __GFP_KMEMCG flag is responsible > for telling the page allocator that this is such an allocation at > free_pages() time. This is done by the invocation of > __free_accounted_pages() and free_accounted_pages(). > > [ v2: inverted test order to avoid a memcg_get leak, > free_accounted_pages simplification ] > [ v4: test for TIF_MEMDIE at newpage_charge ] > > Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glom...@parallels.com> > Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.cz> > Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgor...@suse.de> > Acked-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hir...@jp.fujitsu.com> > CC: Christoph Lameter <c...@linux.com> > CC: Pekka Enberg <penb...@cs.helsinki.fi> > CC: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org> > CC: Suleiman Souhlal <sulei...@google.com> > CC: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
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