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>

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);