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memcg: skip memcg kmem allocations in specified code regions
authorGlauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Fri, 9 Nov 2012 03:04:16 +0000 (14:04 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 12 Nov 2012 04:17:03 +0000 (15:17 +1100)
commitad116badef01ad589e9e6bebf3c1316a794f705f
tree1b64121bd8b77915ef1b99ad0c743bba6230f047
parent595f8e9b38012576d246564554d4ba1d6ef0ae53
memcg: skip memcg kmem allocations in specified code regions

Create a mechanism that skip memcg allocations during certain pieces of
our core code.  It basically works in the same way as
preempt_disable()/preempt_enable(): By marking a region under which all
allocations will be accounted to the root memcg.

We need this to prevent races in early cache creation, when we
allocate data using caches that are not necessarily created already.

Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
yCc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/sched.h
mm/memcontrol.c