Re: [PATCH] mm: remove CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Mar 21 2024 - 08:58:42 EST


On Wed 20-03-24 16:27:45, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM used to be a user-visible option for whether slab
> tracking is enabled. It has been default-enabled and equivalent to
> CONFIG_MEMCG for almost a decade. We've only grown more kernel memory
> accounting sites since, and there is no imaginable cgroup usecase
> going forward that wants to track user pages but not the multitude of
> user-drivable kernel allocations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

But this
> @@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ kmalloc_caches[NR_KMALLOC_TYPES][KMALLOC_SHIFT_HIGH + 1];
> #define KMALLOC_NOT_NORMAL_BITS \
> (__GFP_RECLAIMABLE | \
> (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ZONE_DMA) ? __GFP_DMA : 0) | \
> - (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM) ? __GFP_ACCOUNT : 0))
> + (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KMEM) ? __GFP_ACCOUNT : 0))

seems like a typo and should be CONFIG_MEMCG, right?
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs