From ba6c496ed834a37a26fc6fc87fc9aecb0fa0014d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Glauber Costa Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 14:22:27 -0800 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Suleiman Souhlal Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Greg Thelen Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: JoonSoo Kim Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/slab.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/slab.h') diff --git a/include/linux/slab.h b/include/linux/slab.h index 743a104..00efba1 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); -- cgit v1.1