From 4e701d7b37789d1aeb0015210b373912e5d30733 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vladimir Davydov Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 16:55:13 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] memcg: only check memcg_kmem_skip_account in __memcg_kmem_get_cache __memcg_kmem_get_cache can recurse if it calls kmalloc (which it does if the cgroup's kmem cache doesn't exist), because kmalloc may call __memcg_kmem_get_cache internally again. To avoid the recursion, we use the task_struct->memcg_kmem_skip_account flag. However, there's no need checking the flag in memcg_kmem_newpage_charge, because there's no way how this function could result in recursion, if called from memcg_kmem_get_cache. So let's remove the redundant code. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- mm/memcontrol.c | 28 ---------------------------- 1 file changed, 28 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index bb8c237026cc..d9fab72da52e 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2905,34 +2905,6 @@ __memcg_kmem_newpage_charge(gfp_t gfp, struct mem_cgroup **_memcg, int order) *_memcg = NULL; - /* - * Disabling accounting is only relevant for some specific memcg - * internal allocations. Therefore we would initially not have such - * check here, since direct calls to the page allocator that are - * accounted to kmemcg (alloc_kmem_pages and friends) only happen - * outside memcg core. We are mostly concerned with cache allocations, - * and by having this test at memcg_kmem_get_cache, we are already able - * to relay the allocation to the root cache and bypass the memcg cache - * altogether. - * - * There is one exception, though: the SLUB allocator does not create - * large order caches, but rather service large kmallocs directly from - * the page allocator. Therefore, the following sequence when backed by - * the SLUB allocator: - * - * memcg_stop_kmem_account(); - * kmalloc() - * memcg_resume_kmem_account(); - * - * would effectively ignore the fact that we should skip accounting, - * since it will drive us directly to this function without passing - * through the cache selector memcg_kmem_get_cache. Such large - * allocations are extremely rare but can happen, for instance, for the - * cache arrays. We bring this test here. - */ - if (current->memcg_kmem_skip_account) - return true; - memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(current->mm); if (!memcg_kmem_is_active(memcg)) { -- 2.34.1