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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/2] mm/memcg: set memcg when split page
On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 12:52:52 +0100 Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> wrote:

> On Thu 04-03-21 07:40:53, Zhou Guanghui wrote:
> > As described in the split_page function comment, for the non-compound
> > high order page, the sub-pages must be freed individually. If the
> > memcg of the fisrt page is valid, the tail pages cannot be uncharged
> > when be freed.
> >
> > For example, when alloc_pages_exact is used to allocate 1MB continuous
> > physical memory, 2MB is charged(kmemcg is enabled and __GFP_ACCOUNT is
> > set). When make_alloc_exact free the unused 1MB and free_pages_exact
> > free the applied 1MB, actually, only 4KB(one page) is uncharged.
> >
> > Therefore, the memcg of the tail page needs to be set when split page.
> >
>
> As already mentioned there are at least two explicit users of
> __GFP_ACCOUNT with alloc_exact_pages added recently. It would be good to
> mention that explicitly and maybe even mention 7efe8ef274024 resp.
> c419621873713 so that it is clear this is not just a theoretical issue.

I added

: Michel:
:
: There are at least two explicit users of __GFP_ACCOUNT with
: alloc_exact_pages added recently. See 7efe8ef274024 ("KVM: arm64:
: Allocate stage-2 pgd pages with GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT") and c419621873713
: ("KVM: s390: Add memcg accounting to KVM allocations"), so this is not
: just a theoretical issue.

And should we cc:stable on this one?

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