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| author | Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> | 2021-11-05 13:37:44 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-11-06 13:30:35 -0700 |
| commit | 58056f77502f3567b760c9a8fc8d2e9081515b2d (patch) | |
| tree | e7c4184164f79c5c6e33281df387b5f03d063a6e /Documentation | |
| parent | 16f6bf266c94017c2c4699acab64316ddc0ee77c (diff) | |
memcg, kmem: further deprecate kmem.limit_in_bytes
The deprecation process of kmem.limit_in_bytes started with the commit
0158115f702 ("memcg, kmem: deprecate kmem.limit_in_bytes") which also
explains in detail the motivation behind the deprecation. To summarize,
it is the unexpected behavior on hitting the kmem limit. This patch
moves the deprecation process to the next stage by disallowing to set
the kmem limit. In future we might just remove the kmem.limit_in_bytes
file completely.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/ENOTSUPP/EOPNOTSUPP/]
[arnd@arndb.de: mark cancel_charge() inline]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211022070542.679839-1-arnd@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211019153408.2916808-1-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst index 41191b5fb69d..faac50149a22 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst @@ -87,10 +87,8 @@ Brief summary of control files. memory.oom_control set/show oom controls. memory.numa_stat show the number of memory usage per numa node - memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes set/show hard limit for kernel memory - This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be - used. It is planned that this be removed in - the foreseeable future. + memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes This knob is deprecated and writing to + it will return -ENOTSUPP. memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes show current kernel memory allocation memory.kmem.failcnt show the number of kernel memory usage hits limits @@ -518,11 +516,6 @@ will be charged as a new owner of it. charged file caches. Some out-of-use page caches may keep charged until memory pressure happens. If you want to avoid that, force_empty will be useful. - Also, note that when memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes is set the charges due to - kernel pages will still be seen. This is not considered a failure and the - write will still return success. In this case, it is expected that - memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes == memory.usage_in_bytes. - 5.2 stat file ------------- |