[PATCH 2/4] memcg: enable accounting for kernfs nodes and iattrs

Vasily Averin
2022-05-13T15:51:55Z

kernfs nodes are quite small kernel objects, however there are few
scenarios where it consumes significant piece of all allocated memory:

1) creating a new netdevice allocates ~50Kb of memory, where ~10Kb
was allocated for 80+ kernfs nodes.

2) cgroupv2 mkdir allocates ~60Kb of memory, ~10Kb of them are kernfs
structures.

3) Shakeel Butt reports that Google has workloads which create 100s
of subcontainers and they have observed high system overhead
without memcg accounting of kernfs.

It makes sense to enable accounting for kernfs objects, otherwise its
misuse inside memcg-limited can lead to global memory shortage,
OOM and random kills of host processes.

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs-GEFAQzZX7r8dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
---
fs/kernfs/mount.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/kernfs/mount.c b/fs/kernfs/mount.c
index cfa79715fc1a..40e896c7c86b 100644
--- a/fs/kernfs/mount.c
+++ b/fs/kernfs/mount.c
@@ -391,10 +391,12 @@ void __init kernfs_init(void)
{
kernfs_node_cache = kmem_cache_create("kernfs_node_cache",
sizeof(struct kernfs_node),
- 0, SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
+ 0, SLAB_PANIC | SLAB_ACCOUNT,
+ NULL);

/* Creates slab cache for kernfs inode attributes */
kernfs_iattrs_cache = kmem_cache_create("kernfs_iattrs_cache",
sizeof(struct kernfs_iattrs),
- 0, SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
+ 0, SLAB_PANIC | SLAB_ACCOUNT,
+ NULL);
}
--
2.31.1