Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] mm, slub: make reclaim_account attribute read-only

Roman Gushchin
2020-06-06T00:34:25Z

On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 04:15:19PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> The attribute reflects the SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT cache flag. It's not clear why
> this attribute was writable in the first place, as it's tied to how the cache
> is used by its creator, it's not a user tunable. Furthermore:
>
> - it affects slab merging, but that's not being checked while toggled
> - if affects whether __GFP_RECLAIMABLE flag is used to allocate page, but
> the runtime toggle doesn't update allocflags
> - it affects cache_vmstat_idx() so runtime toggle might lead to incosistency
> of NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE and NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE
>
> Thus make it read-only.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>

Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>

> ---
> mm/slub.c | 11 +----------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
> index 38dd6f3ebb04..d4a9a097da50 100644
> --- a/mm/slub.c
> +++ b/mm/slub.c
> @@ -5223,16 +5223,7 @@ static ssize_t reclaim_account_show(struct kmem_cache *s, char *buf)
> {
> return sprintf(buf, "%d\n", !!(s->flags & SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT));
> }
> -
> -static ssize_t reclaim_account_store(struct kmem_cache *s,
> - const char *buf, size_t length)
> -{
> - s->flags &= ~SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT;
> - if (buf[0] == '1')
> - s->flags |= SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT;
> - return length;
> -}
> -SLAB_ATTR(reclaim_account);
> +SLAB_ATTR_RO(reclaim_account);
>
> static ssize_t hwcache_align_show(struct kmem_cache *s, char *buf)
> {
> --
> 2.26.2
>
>