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Commit 46bea48a authored by Shakeel Butt's avatar Shakeel Butt Committed by Paolo Bonzini
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kvm, mm: account kvm related kmem slabs to kmemcg



The kvm slabs can consume a significant amount of system memory
and indeed in our production environment we have observed that
a lot of machines are spending significant amount of memory that
can not be left as system memory overhead. Also the allocations
from these slabs can be triggered directly by user space applications
which has access to kvm and thus a buggy application can leak
such memory. So, these caches should be accounted to kmemcg.

Signed-off-by: default avatarShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
parent 736fdf72
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