[PATCH slab/for-next 09/14] iommu: specify SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT for slab-backed page table caches

From: Harry Yoo (Meta)

Date: Wed Oct 21 2026 - 07:55:39 EST


vfio, iommufd and vhost-vdpa call iommu_map() with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT
and the gfp is passed down to the drivers' page table allocations.
Specify SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT when the object may be charged to a memcg.
__GFP_ACCOUNT without SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT will not be allowed.

Paths:
VFIO_IOMMU_MAP_DMA -> iommu_map(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT)
-> s390_iommu_map_pages() -> dma_walk_cpu_trans()
-> kmem_cache_alloc(dma_{region,page}_table_cache)
iommu_map(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT) -> arm_v7s_map_pages()
-> __arm_v7s_alloc_table() -> kmem_cache_zalloc(data->l2_tables)
iommu_map(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT) -> sun50i_iommu_map()
-> sun50i_dte_get_page_table() -> kmem_cache_zalloc(iommu->pt_pool)

Assisted-by: LLM
Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Robin Murphy <robin.murphy@xxxxxxx>
Cc: "Joerg Roedel (AMD)" <joro@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Samuel Holland <samuel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: iommu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-s390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-sunxi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Harry Yoo (Meta) <harry@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s.c | 2 +-
drivers/iommu/s390-iommu.c | 4 ++--
drivers/iommu/sun50i-iommu.c | 3 ++-
3 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s.c b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s.c
index 1dbef8c55007..b544e5da237a 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/io-pgtable-arm-v7s.c
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ static struct io_pgtable *arm_v7s_alloc_pgtable(struct io_pgtable_cfg *cfg,
data->l2_tables = kmem_cache_create("io-pgtable_armv7s_l2",
ARM_V7S_TABLE_SIZE(2, cfg),
ARM_V7S_TABLE_SIZE(2, cfg),
- slab_flag, NULL);
+ slab_flag | SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT, NULL);
if (!data->l2_tables)
goto out_free_data;

diff --git a/drivers/iommu/s390-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/s390-iommu.c
index f148f559ac56..f308efadc87b 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/s390-iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/s390-iommu.c
@@ -198,14 +198,14 @@ static int __init dma_alloc_cpu_table_caches(void)
dma_region_table_cache = kmem_cache_create("PCI_DMA_region_tables",
ZPCI_TABLE_SIZE,
ZPCI_TABLE_ALIGN,
- 0, NULL);
+ SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT, NULL);
if (!dma_region_table_cache)
return -ENOMEM;

dma_page_table_cache = kmem_cache_create("PCI_DMA_page_tables",
ZPCI_PT_SIZE,
ZPCI_PT_ALIGN,
- 0, NULL);
+ SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT, NULL);
if (!dma_page_table_cache) {
kmem_cache_destroy(dma_region_table_cache);
return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/drivers/iommu/sun50i-iommu.c b/drivers/iommu/sun50i-iommu.c
index be3f1ce696ba..51a30969dde4 100644
--- a/drivers/iommu/sun50i-iommu.c
+++ b/drivers/iommu/sun50i-iommu.c
@@ -1011,7 +1011,8 @@ static int sun50i_iommu_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)

iommu->pt_pool = kmem_cache_create(dev_name(&pdev->dev),
PT_SIZE, PT_SIZE,
- SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_CACHE_DMA32,
+ SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN | SLAB_CACHE_DMA32 |
+ SLAB_MAY_ACCOUNT,
NULL);
if (!iommu->pt_pool)
return -ENOMEM;

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2.54.0