Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 2021 14:34:05 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH mm v5] memcg: enable memory accounting in __alloc_pages_bulk |
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On Thu, 14 Oct 2021 11:02:57 +0300 Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
> Bulk page allocator is used in vmalloc where it can be called > with __GFP_ACCOUNT and must charge allocated pages into memory cgroup.
Is this problem serious enough to justify -stable backporting? Some words which explaining reasoning for the backport would be helpful.
This patch makes Shakeel's "memcg: page_alloc: skip bulk allocator for __GFP_ACCOUNT" unnecessary. Which should we use?
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