Re: [PATCH v2 10/10] iommu: account IOMMU allocated memory

[David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2023, Pasha Tatashin wrote:

> In order to be able to limit the amount of memory that is allocated
> by IOMMU subsystem, the memory must be accounted.
> 
> Account IOMMU as part of the secondary pagetables as it was discussed
> at LPC.
> 
> The value of SecPageTables now contains mmeory allocation by IOMMU
> and KVM.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 2 +-
>  Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst      | 4 ++--
>  drivers/iommu/iommu-pages.h             | 2 ++
>  include/linux/mmzone.h                  | 2 +-
>  4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
> index 3f85254f3cef..e004e05a7cde 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
> @@ -1418,7 +1418,7 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
>  	  sec_pagetables
>  		Amount of memory allocated for secondary page tables,
>  		this currently includes KVM mmu allocations on x86
> -		and arm64.
> +		and arm64 and IOMMU page tables.

Hmm, if existing users are parsing this field and alerting when it exceeds 
an expected value (a cloud provider, let's say), is it safe to add in a 
whole new set of page tables?

I understand the documentation allows for it, but I think potential impact 
on userspace would be more interesting.

>  
>  	  percpu (npn)
>  		Amount of memory used for storing per-cpu kernel
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> index 49ef12df631b..86f137a9b66b 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.rst
> @@ -1110,8 +1110,8 @@ KernelStack
>  PageTables
>                Memory consumed by userspace page tables
>  SecPageTables
> -              Memory consumed by secondary page tables, this currently
> -              currently includes KVM mmu allocations on x86 and arm64.
> +              Memory consumed by secondary page tables, this currently includes
> +              KVM mmu and IOMMU allocations on x86 and arm64.
>  NFS_Unstable
>                Always zero. Previous counted pages which had been written to
>                the server, but has not been committed to stable storage.
> diff --git a/drivers/iommu/iommu-pages.h b/drivers/iommu/iommu-pages.h
> index 69895a355c0c..cdd257585284 100644
> --- a/drivers/iommu/iommu-pages.h
> +++ b/drivers/iommu/iommu-pages.h
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ static inline void __iommu_alloc_account(struct page *pages, int order)
>  	const long pgcnt = 1l << order;
>  
>  	mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(pages), NR_IOMMU_PAGES, pgcnt);
> +	mod_lruvec_page_state(pages, NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE, pgcnt);
>  }
>  
>  /**
> @@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ static inline void __iommu_free_account(struct page *pages, int order)
>  	const long pgcnt = 1l << order;
>  
>  	mod_node_page_state(page_pgdat(pages), NR_IOMMU_PAGES, -pgcnt);
> +	mod_lruvec_page_state(pages, NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE, -pgcnt);
>  }
>  
>  /**
> diff --git a/include/linux/mmzone.h b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> index 1a4d0bba3e8b..aaabb385663c 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mmzone.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mmzone.h
> @@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ enum node_stat_item {
>  	NR_KERNEL_SCS_KB,	/* measured in KiB */
>  #endif
>  	NR_PAGETABLE,		/* used for pagetables */
> -	NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE, /* secondary pagetables, e.g. KVM pagetables */
> +	NR_SECONDARY_PAGETABLE, /* secondary pagetables, KVM & IOMMU */
>  #ifdef CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT
>  	NR_IOMMU_PAGES,		/* # of pages allocated by IOMMU */
>  #endif
> -- 
> 2.43.0.rc2.451.g8631bc7472-goog
> 
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