Re: memcg memory accounting in vmalloc is broken

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Thu Oct 07 2021 - 04:13:36 EST

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On Thu 07-10-21 11:04:40, Vasily Averin wrote:
> vmalloc was switched to __alloc_pages_bulk but it does not account the memory to memcg.
>
> Is it known issue perhaps?

No, I think this was just overlooked. Definitely doesn't look
intentional to me.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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