mm: embed the memcg pointer directly into struct page

Memory cgroups used to have 5 per-page pointers.  To allow users to
disable that amount of overhead during runtime, those pointers were
allocated in a separate array, with a translation layer between them and
struct page.

There is now only one page pointer remaining: the memcg pointer, that
indicates which cgroup the page is associated with when charged.  The
complexity of runtime allocation and the runtime translation overhead is
no longer justified to save that *potential* 0.19% of memory.  With
CONFIG_SLUB, page->mem_cgroup actually sits in the doubleword padding
after the page->private member and doesn't even increase struct page,
and then this patch actually saves space.  Remaining users that care can
still compile their kernels without CONFIG_MEMCG.

     text    data     bss     dec     hex     filename
  8828345 1725264  983040 11536649 b00909  vmlinux.old
  8827425 1725264  966656 11519345 afc571  vmlinux.new

[mhocko@suse.cz: update Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 53 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/page_cgroup.h b/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
index 1289be6b436c..65be35785c86 100644
--- a/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/page_cgroup.h
@@ -1,59 +1,6 @@
 #ifndef __LINUX_PAGE_CGROUP_H
 #define __LINUX_PAGE_CGROUP_H
 
-struct pglist_data;
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
-struct mem_cgroup;
-
-/*
- * Page Cgroup can be considered as an extended mem_map.
- * A page_cgroup page is associated with every page descriptor. The
- * page_cgroup helps us identify information about the cgroup
- * All page cgroups are allocated at boot or memory hotplug event,
- * then the page cgroup for pfn always exists.
- */
-struct page_cgroup {
-	struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup;
-};
-
-extern void pgdat_page_cgroup_init(struct pglist_data *pgdat);
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM
-static inline void page_cgroup_init_flatmem(void)
-{
-}
-extern void page_cgroup_init(void);
-#else
-extern void page_cgroup_init_flatmem(void);
-static inline void page_cgroup_init(void)
-{
-}
-#endif
-
-struct page_cgroup *lookup_page_cgroup(struct page *page);
-
-#else /* !CONFIG_MEMCG */
-struct page_cgroup;
-
-static inline void pgdat_page_cgroup_init(struct pglist_data *pgdat)
-{
-}
-
-static inline struct page_cgroup *lookup_page_cgroup(struct page *page)
-{
-	return NULL;
-}
-
-static inline void page_cgroup_init(void)
-{
-}
-
-static inline void page_cgroup_init_flatmem(void)
-{
-}
-#endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG */
-
 #include <linux/swap.h>
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP