Re: [PATCH v11 6/9] hugetlb_cgroup: support noreserve mappings

From: Mike Kravetz
Date: Fri Feb 07 2020 - 13:17:04 EST


On 2/6/20 2:31 PM, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> On 2/3/20 3:22 PM, Mina Almasry wrote:
>> Support MAP_NORESERVE accounting as part of the new counter.
>>
>> For each hugepage allocation, at allocation time we check if there is
>> a reservation for this allocation or not. If there is a reservation for
>> this allocation, then this allocation was charged at reservation time,
>> and we don't re-account it. If there is no reserevation for this
>> allocation, we charge the appropriate hugetlb_cgroup.
>>
>> The hugetlb_cgroup to uncharge for this allocation is stored in
>> page[3].private. We use new APIs added in an earlier patch to set this
>> pointer.
>
> Ah! That reminded me to look at the migration code. Turns out that none
> of the existing cgroup information (page[2]) is being migrated today. That
> is a bug. :( I'll confirm and fix in a patch separate from this series.
> We will need to make sure that new information added by this series in page[3]
> is also migrated. That would be in an earlier patch where the use of the
> field is introduced.

My appologies!

cgroup information is migrated and you took care of it for new reservation
information in patch 2. Please disregard that statement.

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Mike Kravetz