[v5,0/4] mm: allow mapping accounted kernel pages to userspace

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Roman Gushchin Oct. 2, 2020, 5:25 p.m. UTC

Currently a non-slab kernel page which has been charged to a memory
cgroup can't be mapped to userspace. The underlying reason is simple:
PageKmemcg flag is defined as a page type (like buddy, offline, etc),
so it takes a bit from a page->mapped counter. Pages with a type set
can't be mapped to userspace.

But in general the kmemcg flag has nothing to do with mapping to
userspace. It only means that the page has been accounted by the page
allocator, so it has to be properly uncharged on release.

Some bpf maps are mapping the vmalloc-based memory to userspace, and
their memory can't be accounted because of this implementation detail.

This patchset removes this limitation by moving the PageKmemcg flag
into one of the free bits of the page->mem_cgroup pointer. Also it
formalizes accesses to the page->mem_cgroup and page->obj_cgroups
using new helpers, adds several checks and removes a couple of obsolete
functions. As the result the code became more robust with fewer
open-coded bit tricks.

v5:
  - added ~MEMCG_DATA_FLAGS_MASK to page_memcg_rcu(), by Michal
  - more cosmetic changes, by Johannes

v4:
  - more cosmetic changes, by Johannes

v3:
  - READ_ONCE() in page_memcg_rcu() and page_objcgs*(), by Johannes
  - many cosmetic changes and renamings, by Johannes

v2:
  - fixed a bug in page_obj_cgroups_check()
  - moved some definitions between patches, by Shakeel
  - dropped the memcg flags mutual exclusion requirement, by Shakeel

v1:
  - added and fixed comments, by Shakeel
  - added some VM_BUG_ON() checks
  - fixed the debug output format of page->memcg_data


Roman Gushchin (4):
  mm: memcontrol: use helpers to read page's memcg data
  mm: memcontrol/slab: use helpers to access slab page's memcg_data
  mm: introduce page memcg flags
  mm: convert page kmemcg type to a page memcg flag

 cover.txt                        |   4 +-
 fs/buffer.c                      |   2 +-
 fs/iomap/buffered-io.c           |   2 +-
 include/linux/memcontrol.h       | 215 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 include/linux/mm.h               |  22 ----
 include/linux/mm_types.h         |   5 +-
 include/linux/page-flags.h       |  11 +-
 include/trace/events/writeback.h |   2 +-
 kernel/fork.c                    |   7 +-
 mm/debug.c                       |   4 +-
 mm/huge_memory.c                 |   4 +-
 mm/memcontrol.c                  | 139 +++++++++-----------
 mm/page_alloc.c                  |   8 +-
 mm/page_io.c                     |   6 +-
 mm/slab.h                        |  38 ++----
 mm/workingset.c                  |   2 +-
 16 files changed, 302 insertions(+), 169 deletions(-)