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author | Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> | 2012-12-18 14:22:27 -0800 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-12-18 15:02:13 -0800 |
commit | ba6c496ed834a37a26fc6fc87fc9aecb0fa0014d (patch) | |
tree | cd229b78ca04817354865c9fdf57b564a6bf7852 /include/linux/slab.h | |
parent | d5bdae7d59451b9d63303f7794ef32bb76ba6330 (diff) | |
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slab/slub: struct memcg_params
For the kmem slab controller, we need to record some extra information in
the kmem_cache structure.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Cc: 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: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/slab.h')
-rw-r--r-- | include/linux/slab.h | 24 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h index 743a10415122..00efba149222 100644 --- a/include/linux/slab.h +++ b/include/linux/slab.h @@ -177,6 +177,30 @@ void kmem_cache_free(struct kmem_cache *, void *); #endif /* + * This is the main placeholder for memcg-related information in kmem caches. + * struct kmem_cache will hold a pointer to it, so the memory cost while + * disabled is 1 pointer. The runtime cost while enabled, gets bigger than it + * would otherwise be if that would be bundled in kmem_cache: we'll need an + * extra pointer chase. But the trade off clearly lays in favor of not + * penalizing non-users. + * + * Both the root cache and the child caches will have it. For the root cache, + * this will hold a dynamically allocated array large enough to hold + * information about the currently limited memcgs in the system. + * + * Child caches will hold extra metadata needed for its operation. Fields are: + * + * @memcg: pointer to the memcg this cache belongs to + */ +struct memcg_cache_params { + bool is_root_cache; + union { + struct kmem_cache *memcg_caches[0]; + struct mem_cgroup *memcg; + }; +}; + +/* * Common kmalloc functions provided by all allocators */ void * __must_check __krealloc(const void *, size_t, gfp_t); |