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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 14:49:08 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mm: memory: move mem_cgroup_charge() into
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To: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
 linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
References: <20240117103954.2756050-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
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On 17/01/2024 10:39, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> mem_cgroup_charge() uses the GFP flags in a fairly sophisticated way.
> In addition to checking gfpflags_allow_blocking(), it pays attention
> to __GFP_NORETRY and __GFP_RETRY_MAYFAIL to ensure that processes within
> this memcg do not exceed their quotas. Using the same GFP flags ensures
> that we handle large anonymous folios correctly, including falling back
> to smaller orders when there is plenty of memory available in the system
> but this memcg is close to its limits.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>

Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>

> ---
> v2:
> - fix built when !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> - update changelog suggested by Matthew Wilcox
> 
>  mm/memory.c | 16 ++++++++--------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index 5e88d5379127..551f0b21bc42 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -4153,8 +4153,8 @@ static bool pte_range_none(pte_t *pte, int nr_pages)
>  
>  static struct folio *alloc_anon_folio(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
>  	struct vm_area_struct *vma = vmf->vma;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
>  	unsigned long orders;
>  	struct folio *folio;
>  	unsigned long addr;
> @@ -4206,15 +4206,21 @@ static struct folio *alloc_anon_folio(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  		addr = ALIGN_DOWN(vmf->address, PAGE_SIZE << order);
>  		folio = vma_alloc_folio(gfp, order, vma, addr, true);
>  		if (folio) {
> +			if (mem_cgroup_charge(folio, vma->vm_mm, gfp)) {
> +				folio_put(folio);
> +				goto next;
> +			}
> +			folio_throttle_swaprate(folio, gfp);
>  			clear_huge_page(&folio->page, vmf->address, 1 << order);
>  			return folio;
>  		}
> +next:
>  		order = next_order(&orders, order);
>  	}
>  
>  fallback:
>  #endif
> -	return vma_alloc_zeroed_movable_folio(vmf->vma, vmf->address);
> +	return folio_prealloc(vma->vm_mm, vma, vmf->address, true);
>  }
>  
>  /*
> @@ -4281,10 +4287,6 @@ static vm_fault_t do_anonymous_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  	nr_pages = folio_nr_pages(folio);
>  	addr = ALIGN_DOWN(vmf->address, nr_pages * PAGE_SIZE);
>  
> -	if (mem_cgroup_charge(folio, vma->vm_mm, GFP_KERNEL))
> -		goto oom_free_page;
> -	folio_throttle_swaprate(folio, GFP_KERNEL);
> -
>  	/*
>  	 * The memory barrier inside __folio_mark_uptodate makes sure that
>  	 * preceding stores to the page contents become visible before
> @@ -4338,8 +4340,6 @@ static vm_fault_t do_anonymous_page(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>  release:
>  	folio_put(folio);
>  	goto unlock;
> -oom_free_page:
> -	folio_put(folio);
>  oom:
>  	return VM_FAULT_OOM;
>  }