Glauber Costa Messages: 916 Registered: October 2011
Senior Member
Because those architectures will draw their stacks directly from the
page allocator, rather than the slab cache, we can directly pass
__GFP_KMEMCG flag, and issue the corresponding free_pages.
This code path is taken when the architecture doesn't define
CONFIG_ARCH_THREAD_INFO_ALLOCATOR (only ia64 seems to), and has
THREAD_SIZE >= PAGE_SIZE. Luckily, most - if not all - of the remaining
architectures fall in this category.
This will guarantee that every stack page is accounted to the memcg the
process currently lives on, and will have the allocations to fail if
they go over limit.
For the time being, I am defining a new variant of THREADINFO_GFP, not
to mess with the other path. Once the slab is also tracked by memcg, we
can get rid of that flag.
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