The current allocation of VMAP stack memory is using (THREADINFO_GFP &
~__GFP_ACCOUNT) which is a complicated way of saying (GFP_KERNEL |
__GFP_ZERO):
<linux/thread_info.h>:
define THREADINFO_GFP (GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT | __GFP_ZERO)
<linux/gfp_types.h>:
define GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT (GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ACCOUNT)
This is an unfortunate side-effect of independent changes blurring the
picture:
commit 19809c2da2 changed (THREADINFO_GFP |
__GFP_HIGHMEM) to just THREADINFO_GFP since highmem became implicit.
commit 9b6f7e163c then added stack caching
and rewrote the allocation to (THREADINFO_GFP & ~__GFP_ACCOUNT) as cached
stacks need to be accounted separately. However that code, when it
eventually accounts the memory does this:
ret = memcg_kmem_charge(vm->pages[i], GFP_KERNEL, 0)
so the memory is charged as a GFP_KERNEL allocation.
Define a unique GFP_VMAP_STACK to use
GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO and move the comment there.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250509-gfp-stack-v1-1-82f6f7efc210@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reported-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
8e02b1b7fc