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kvm, mm: account kvm related kmem slabs to kmemcg
authorShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Fri, 6 Oct 2017 01:07:24 +0000 (18:07 -0700)
committerPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Thu, 12 Oct 2017 12:01:53 +0000 (14:01 +0200)
commit46bea48ac241fe0b413805952dda74dd0c09ba8b
tree1346b73767c9c81e234636f1534a85b3aebe7f7c
parent736fdf72518b400321f8b20c770bfb500f829928
kvm, mm: account kvm related kmem slabs to kmemcg

The kvm slabs can consume a significant amount of system memory
and indeed in our production environment we have observed that
a lot of machines are spending significant amount of memory that
can not be left as system memory overhead. Also the allocations
from these slabs can be triggered directly by user space applications
which has access to kvm and thus a buggy application can leak
such memory. So, these caches should be accounted to kmemcg.

Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
virt/kvm/kvm_main.c