Re: [RFC PATCH v1 03/57] mm/memcontrol: Fix seq_buf size to save memory when PAGE_SIZE is large

From: Ryan Roberts
Date: Tue Oct 15 2024 - 06:56:26 EST


On 14/10/2024 20:59, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 11:58:10AM GMT, Ryan Roberts wrote:
>> Previously the seq_buf used for accumulating the memory.stat output was
>> sized at PAGE_SIZE. But the amount of output is invariant to PAGE_SIZE;
>> If 4K is enough on a 4K page system, then it should also be enough on a
>> 64K page system, so we can save 60K om the static buffer used in
>> mem_cgroup_print_oom_meminfo(). Let's make it so.
>>
>> This also has the beneficial side effect of removing a place in the code
>> that assumed PAGE_SIZE is a compile-time constant. So this helps our
>> quest towards supporting boot-time page size selection.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks Shakeel and Johannes, for the acks. Given this patch is totally
independent, I'll plan to resubmit it on its own and hopefully we can get it in
independently of the rest of the series.

Thanks,
Ryan