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authorVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>2016-01-20 15:02:38 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-01-20 17:09:18 -0800
commit04823c833b3eaef7816e28e3727124394f6bb3c3 (patch)
tree2fd7291cb5605b74a834aa44f91a754ae860238a /mm/memcontrol.c
parent52c29b04823cb1bab2805336b80866325fe2bc3f (diff)
mm: memcontrol: allow to disable kmem accounting for cgroup2
Kmem accounting might incur overhead that some users can't put up with. Besides, the implementation is still considered unstable. So let's provide a way to disable it for those users who aren't happy with it. To disable kmem accounting for cgroup2, pass cgroup.memory=nokmem at boot time. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: 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 'mm/memcontrol.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 9e7a4e521917..2239e6dd4d4c 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ struct mem_cgroup *root_mem_cgroup __read_mostly;
/* Socket memory accounting disabled? */
static bool cgroup_memory_nosocket;
+/* Kernel memory accounting disabled? */
+static bool cgroup_memory_nokmem;
+
/* Whether the swap controller is active */
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP
int do_swap_account __read_mostly;
@@ -2925,8 +2928,8 @@ static int memcg_propagate_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
* onlined after this point, because it has at least one child
* already.
*/
- if (cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys) ||
- memcg_kmem_online(parent))
+ if (memcg_kmem_online(parent) ||
+ (cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys) && !cgroup_memory_nokmem))
ret = memcg_online_kmem(memcg);
mutex_unlock(&memcg_limit_mutex);
return ret;
@@ -5638,6 +5641,8 @@ static int __init cgroup_memory(char *s)
continue;
if (!strcmp(token, "nosocket"))
cgroup_memory_nosocket = true;
+ if (!strcmp(token, "nokmem"))
+ cgroup_memory_nokmem = true;
}
return 0;
}