Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] mm: memcg/slab: Disable cache merging for KMALLOC_NORMAL caches

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 5/5/21 10:06 PM, Waiman Long wrote:
> The KMALLOC_NORMAL (kmalloc-<n>) caches are for unaccounted objects only
> when CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM is enabled. To make sure that this condition
> remains true, we will have to prevent KMALOC_NORMAL caches to merge
> with other kmem caches. This is now done by setting its refcount to -1
> right after its creation.
> 
> Suggested-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx>

(outside of scope of this patch/series, we should later replace this refcount
ugliness with a proper slab flag)

> ---
>  mm/slab_common.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
> index bbaf41a7c77e..a0ff8e1d8b67 100644
> --- a/mm/slab_common.c
> +++ b/mm/slab_common.c
> @@ -841,6 +841,13 @@ new_kmalloc_cache(int idx, enum kmalloc_cache_type type, slab_flags_t flags)
>  					kmalloc_info[idx].name[type],
>  					kmalloc_info[idx].size, flags, 0,
>  					kmalloc_info[idx].size);
> +
> +	/*
> +	 * If CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM is enabled, disable cache merging for
> +	 * KMALLOC_NORMAL caches.
> +	 */
> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM) && (type == KMALLOC_NORMAL))
> +		kmalloc_caches[type][idx]->refcount = -1;
>  }
>  
>  /*
>