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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 0/7] hugetlb_cgroup: Add hugetlb_cgroup reservation limits
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On 10/11/19 1:41 PM, Mina Almasry wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 12:10 PM Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 10:47 AM Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 9/19/19 3:24 PM, Mina Almasry wrote:
>>
>> Mike, note your suggestion above to check if the page hugetlb_cgroup
>> is null doesn't work if we want to keep the current counter working
>> the same: the page will always have a hugetlb_cgroup that points that
>> contains the old counter. Any ideas how to apply this new counter
>> behavior to a private NORESERVE mappings? Is there maybe a flag I can
>> set on the pages at allocation time that I can read on free time to
>> know whether to uncharge the hugetlb_cgroup or not?
>
> Reading the code and asking around a bit, it seems the pointer to the
> hugetlb_cgroup is in page[2].private. Is it reasonable to use
> page[3].private to store the hugetlb_cgroup to uncharge for the new
> counter and increment HUGETLB_CGROUP_MIN_ORDER to 3? I think that
> would solve my problem. When allocating a private NORESERVE page, set
> page[3].private to the hugetlb_cgroup to uncharge, then on
> free_huge_page, check page[3].private, if it is non-NULL, uncharge the
> new counter on it.

Sorry for not responding sooner. This approach should work, and it looks like
you have a v6 of the series. I'll take a look.

--
Mike Kravetz

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