mm/memcg: use kmem_cache when alloc memcg

When tracing mem_cgroup_alloc() with kmalloc ftrace, we observe:

kmalloc: call_site=mem_cgroup_css_alloc+0xd8/0x5b4 ptr=000000003e4c3799
    bytes_req=2312 bytes_alloc=4096 gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO node=-1
    accounted=false

The output indicates that while allocating mem_cgroup struct (2312 bytes),
the slab allocator actually provides 4096-byte chunks. This occurs because:

1. The slab allocator predefines bucket sizes from 64B to 8096B
2. The mem_cgroup allocation size (2312B) falls between the 2KB and 4KB
   slabs
3. The allocator rounds up to the nearest larger slab (4KB), resulting in
   ~1KB wasted memory per allocation

This patch introduces a dedicated kmem_cache for mem_cgroup structs,
achieving precise memory allocation. Post-patch ftrace verification shows:

kmem_cache_alloc: call_site=mem_cgroup_css_alloc+0xbc/0x5d4
    ptr=00000000695c1806 bytes_req=2312 bytes_alloc=2368
    gfp_flags=GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_ZERO node=-1 accounted=false

Each memcg alloc offer 2368bytes(include hw cacheline align), compare to
4096, avoid waste.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250425031935.76411-3-link@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Huan Yang <link@vivo.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Francesco Valla <francesco@valla.it>
Cc: guoweikang <guoweikang.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: Huang Shijie <shijie@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Raul E Rangel <rrangel@chromium.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index dcb07a52b4ed5fd0dadb9219b39ef204f3d758ef..6d713fe10221f12e16c0976f3680a3b71bfb9503 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ static bool cgroup_memory_nokmem __ro_after_init;
 /* BPF memory accounting disabled? */
 static bool cgroup_memory_nobpf __ro_after_init;
 
+static struct kmem_cache *memcg_cachep;
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_WRITEBACK
 static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(memcg_cgwb_frn_waitq);
 #endif
@@ -3665,7 +3667,7 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_alloc(struct mem_cgroup *parent)
        int __maybe_unused i;
        long error;
 
-       memcg = kzalloc(struct_size(memcg, nodeinfo, nr_node_ids), GFP_KERNEL);
+       memcg = kmem_cache_zalloc(memcg_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!memcg)
                return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 
@@ -5051,6 +5053,7 @@ __setup("cgroup.memory=", cgroup_memory);
  */
 int __init mem_cgroup_init(void)
 {
+       unsigned int memcg_size;
        int cpu;
 
        /*
@@ -5068,6 +5071,10 @@ int __init mem_cgroup_init(void)
                INIT_WORK(&per_cpu_ptr(&memcg_stock, cpu)->work,
                          drain_local_stock);
 
+       memcg_size = struct_size_t(struct mem_cgroup, nodeinfo, nr_node_ids);
+       memcg_cachep = kmem_cache_create("mem_cgroup", memcg_size, 0,
+                                        SLAB_PANIC | SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN, NULL);
+
        return 0;
 }