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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-06 22:27:08 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2017-07-06 22:27:08 -0700
commit9f45efb9286268e01d5022d34a58a68f53ca3072 (patch)
treeac152f5ab7bf104ee2c4ad3a596ce0d2595f1d59 /Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
parentdc502142b65b9e31eb90ab4344b3acadb2698317 (diff)
parent4932381ee2a77a21641009149722e1bb92bd99e2 (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: - a few hotfixes - various misc updates - ocfs2 updates - most of MM * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (108 commits) mm, memory_hotplug: move movable_node to the hotplug proper mm, memory_hotplug: drop CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE mm, memory_hotplug: drop artificial restriction on online/offline mm: memcontrol: account slab stats per lruvec mm: memcontrol: per-lruvec stats infrastructure mm: memcontrol: use generic mod_memcg_page_state for kmem pages mm: memcontrol: use the node-native slab memory counters mm: vmstat: move slab statistics from zone to node counters mm/zswap.c: delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zswap_dstmem_prepare() mm/zswap.c: improve a size determination in zswap_frontswap_init() mm/zswap.c: delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in zswap_pool_create() mm/swapfile.c: sort swap entries before free mm/oom_kill: count global and memory cgroup oom kills mm: per-cgroup memory reclaim stats mm: kmemleak: treat vm_struct as alternative reference to vmalloc'ed objects mm: kmemleak: factor object reference updating out of scan_block() mm: kmemleak: slightly reduce the size of some structures on 64-bit architectures mm, mempolicy: don't check cpuset seqlock where it doesn't matter mm, cpuset: always use seqlock when changing task's nodemask mm, mempolicy: simplify rebinding mempolicies when updating cpusets ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
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@@ -852,13 +852,25 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
The number of times the cgroup's memory usage was
about to go over the max boundary. If direct reclaim
- fails to bring it down, the OOM killer is invoked.
+ fails to bring it down, the cgroup goes to OOM state.
oom
- The number of times the OOM killer has been invoked in
- the cgroup. This may not exactly match the number of
- processes killed but should generally be close.
+ The number of time the cgroup's memory usage was
+ reached the limit and allocation was about to fail.
+
+ Depending on context result could be invocation of OOM
+ killer and retrying allocation or failing alloction.
+
+ Failed allocation in its turn could be returned into
+ userspace as -ENOMEM or siletly ignored in cases like
+ disk readahead. For now OOM in memory cgroup kills
+ tasks iff shortage has happened inside page fault.
+
+ oom_kill
+
+ The number of processes belonging to this cgroup
+ killed by any kind of OOM killer.
memory.stat
@@ -956,6 +968,34 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
Number of times a shadow node has been reclaimed
+ pgrefill
+
+ Amount of scanned pages (in an active LRU list)
+
+ pgscan
+
+ Amount of scanned pages (in an inactive LRU list)
+
+ pgsteal
+
+ Amount of reclaimed pages
+
+ pgactivate
+
+ Amount of pages moved to the active LRU list
+
+ pgdeactivate
+
+ Amount of pages moved to the inactive LRU lis
+
+ pglazyfree
+
+ Amount of pages postponed to be freed under memory pressure
+
+ pglazyfreed
+
+ Amount of reclaimed lazyfree pages
+
memory.swap.current
A read-only single value file which exists on non-root