memcg: fix gfp_mask of callers of charge

Fix misuse of gfp_kernel.

Now, most of callers of mem_cgroup_charge_xxx functions uses GFP_KERNEL.

I think that this is from the fact that page_cgroup *was* dynamically
allocated.

But now, we allocate all page_cgroup at boot.  And
mem_cgroup_try_to_free_pages() reclaim memory from GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE +
specified GFP_RECLAIM_MASK.

  * This is because we just want to reduce memory usage.
    "Where we should reclaim from ?" is not a problem in memcg.

This patch modifies gfp masks to be GFP_HIGUSER_MOVABLE if possible.

Note: This patch is not for fixing behavior but for showing sane information
      in source code.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Daisuke Nishimura <[email protected]>
Cc: Balbir Singh <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 2009-01-07 18:07:49 -08:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit bced0520fe
4 changed files with 14 additions and 11 deletions

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@ -695,7 +695,7 @@ static int unuse_pte(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
pte_t *pte;
int ret = 1;
if (mem_cgroup_try_charge(vma->vm_mm, GFP_KERNEL, &ptr))
if (mem_cgroup_try_charge(vma->vm_mm, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE, &ptr))
ret = -ENOMEM;
pte = pte_offset_map_lock(vma->vm_mm, pmd, addr, &ptl);