Re: [PATCH bpf-next v4 04/30] bpf: refine memcg-based memory accounting for arraymap maps

[Shakeel Butt]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2020 at 8:11 AM Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Include percpu arrays and auxiliary data into the memcg-based memory
> accounting.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
> ---
>  kernel/bpf/arraymap.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/bpf/arraymap.c b/kernel/bpf/arraymap.c
> index 8ff419b632a6..9597fecff8da 100644
> --- a/kernel/bpf/arraymap.c
> +++ b/kernel/bpf/arraymap.c
> @@ -28,12 +28,12 @@ static void bpf_array_free_percpu(struct bpf_array *array)
>
>  static int bpf_array_alloc_percpu(struct bpf_array *array)
>  {
> +       const gfp_t gfp = GFP_USER | __GFP_NOWARN | __GFP_ACCOUNT;
>         void __percpu *ptr;
>         int i;
>
>         for (i = 0; i < array->map.max_entries; i++) {
> -               ptr = __alloc_percpu_gfp(array->elem_size, 8,
> -                                        GFP_USER | __GFP_NOWARN);
> +               ptr = __alloc_percpu_gfp(array->elem_size, 8, gfp);
>                 if (!ptr) {
>                         bpf_array_free_percpu(array);
>                         return -ENOMEM;
> @@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ static struct bpf_map *prog_array_map_alloc(union bpf_attr *attr)
>         struct bpf_array_aux *aux;
>         struct bpf_map *map;
>
> -       aux = kzalloc(sizeof(*aux), GFP_KERNEL);
> +       aux = kzalloc(sizeof(*aux), GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT);
>         if (!aux)
>                 return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
>

There are a couple other allocations in the file. Can you please
comment why those are fine without __GFP_ACCOUNT flag. One seems to be
iterator allocation which should be temporary and fine without
__GFP_ACCOUNT but what about the ones in prog_array_map_poke_track()
and bpf_event_entry_gen()?