From e399257349098bf7c84343f99efb2bc9c22eb9fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Yuan Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:27:06 +0000 Subject: mm/memcontrol: respect zswap.writeback setting from parent cg too MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Currently, the behavior of zswap.writeback wrt. the cgroup hierarchy seems a bit odd. Unlike zswap.max, it doesn't honor the value from parent cgroups. This surfaced when people tried to globally disable zswap writeback, i.e. reserve physical swap space only for hibernation [1] - disabling zswap.writeback only for the root cgroup results in subcgroups with zswap.writeback=1 still performing writeback. The inconsistency became more noticeable after I introduced the MemoryZSwapWriteback= systemd unit setting [2] for controlling the knob. The patch assumed that the kernel would enforce the value of parent cgroups. It could probably be workarounded from systemd's side, by going up the slice unit tree and inheriting the value. Yet I think it's more sensible to make it behave consistently with zswap.max and friends. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate#Disable_zswap_writeback_to_use_the_swap_space_only_for_hibernation [2] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/31734 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240823162506.12117-1-me@yhndnzj.com Fixes: 501a06fe8e4c ("zswap: memcontrol: implement zswap writeback disabling") Signed-off-by: Mike Yuan Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Michal Koutný Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst index 86311c2907cd..95c18bc17083 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst @@ -1717,9 +1717,10 @@ The following nested keys are defined. entries fault back in or are written out to disk. memory.zswap.writeback - A read-write single value file. The default value is "1". The - initial value of the root cgroup is 1, and when a new cgroup is - created, it inherits the current value of its parent. + A read-write single value file. The default value is "1". + Note that this setting is hierarchical, i.e. the writeback would be + implicitly disabled for child cgroups if the upper hierarchy + does so. When this is set to 0, all swapping attempts to swapping devices are disabled. This included both zswap writebacks, and swapping due -- cgit