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    mm: memcg/slab: stop setting page->mem_cgroup pointer for slab pages · 4d96ba35
    Roman Gushchin authored
    Every slab page charged to a non-root memory cgroup has a pointer to the
    memory cgroup and holds a reference to it, which protects a non-empty
    memory cgroup from being released.  At the same time the page has a
    pointer to the corresponding kmem_cache, and also hold a reference to the
    kmem_cache.  And kmem_cache by itself holds a reference to the cgroup.
    
    So there is clearly some redundancy, which allows to stop setting the
    page->mem_cgroup pointer and rely on getting memcg pointer indirectly via
    kmem_cache.  Further it will allow to change this pointer easier, without
    a need to go over all charged pages.
    
    So let's stop setting page->mem_cgroup pointer for slab pages, and stop
    using the css refcounter directly for protecting the memory cgroup from
    going away.  Instead rely on kmem_cache as an intermediate object.
    
    Make sure that vmstats and shrinker lists are working as previously, as
    well as /proc/kpagecgroup interface.
    
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190611231813.3148843-10-guro@fb.comSigned-off-by: default avatarRoman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarVladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
    Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
    Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
    Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
    Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
    Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
    Cc: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
    Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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