Patch series "Expose swapcache stat for memcg v1", v2.
Since commit b603894248 ("mm: memcg: add swapcache stat for memcg v2")
adds swapcache stat for the cgroup v2, it seems there is no reason to hide
it in memcg v1. Conversely, with swapcached it is more accurate to
evaluate the available memory for memcg.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230915105845.3199656-1-liushixin2@huawei.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230915105845.3199656-2-liushixin2@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Liu Shixin <liushixin2@huawei.com>
Suggested-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan.x@bytedance.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
This reverts commits 86327e8eb9 ("memcg: drop kmem.limit_in_bytes") and
partially reverts 58056f7750 ("memcg, kmem: further deprecate
kmem.limit_in_bytes") which have incrementally removed support for the
kernel memory accounting hard limit. Unfortunately it has turned out that
there is still userspace depending on the existence of
memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes [1]. The underlying functionality is not
really required but the non-existent file just confuses the userspace
which fails in the result. The patch to fix this on the userspace side
has been submitted but it is hard to predict how it will propagate through
the maze of 3rd party consumers of the software.
Now, reverting alone 86327e8eb9 is not an option because there is
another set of userspace which cannot cope with ENOTSUPP returned when
writing to the file. Therefore we have to go and revisit 58056f7750 as
well. There are two ways to go ahead. Either we give up on the
deprecation and fully revert 58056f7750 as well or we can keep
kmem.limit_in_bytes but make the write a noop and warn about the fact.
This should work for both known breaking workloads which depend on the
existence but do not depend on the hard limit enforcement.
Note to backporters to stable trees. a8c49af3be ("memcg: add per-memcg
total kernel memory stat") introduced in 4.18 has added memcg_account_kmem
so the accounting is not done by obj_cgroup_charge_pages directly for v1
anymore. Prior kernels need to add it explicitly (thanks to Johannes for
pointing this out).
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build - remove unused local]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230920081101.GA12096@linuxonhyperv3.guj3yctzbm1etfxqx2vob5hsef.xx.internal.cloudapp.net [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZRE5VJozPZt9bRPy@dhcp22.suse.cz
Fixes: 86327e8eb9 ("memcg: drop kmem.limit_in_bytes")
Fixes: 58056f7750 ("memcg, kmem: further deprecate kmem.limit_in_bytes")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jeremi Piotrowski <jpiotrowski@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Tejun heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
* Per-cpu cpu usage stats are now tracked. This currently isn't printed out
in the cgroupfs interface and can only be accessed through e.g. BPF.
Should decide on a not-too-ugly way to show per-cpu stats in cgroupfs.
* cpuset received some cleanups and prepatory patches for the pending
cpus.exclusive patchset which will allow cpuset partitions to be created
below non-partition parents, which should ease the management of partition
cpusets.
* A lot of code and documentation cleanup patches.
* tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset.c is added. This causes trivial
conflicts in .gitignore and Makefile under the directory against
fe3b1bf19b ("selftests: cgroup: add test_zswap program"). They can be
resolved by keeping lines from both branches.
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Merge tag 'cgroup-for-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
- Per-cpu cpu usage stats are now tracked
This currently isn't printed out in the cgroupfs interface and can
only be accessed through e.g. BPF. Should decide on a not-too-ugly
way to show per-cpu stats in cgroupfs
- cpuset received some cleanups and prepatory patches for the pending
cpus.exclusive patchset which will allow cpuset partitions to be
created below non-partition parents, which should ease the management
of partition cpusets
- A lot of code and documentation cleanup patches
- tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_cpuset.c added
* tag 'cgroup-for-6.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (32 commits)
cgroup: Avoid -Wstringop-overflow warnings
cgroup:namespace: Remove unused cgroup_namespaces_init()
cgroup/rstat: Record the cumulative per-cpu time of cgroup and its descendants
cgroup: clean up if condition in cgroup_pidlist_start()
cgroup: fix obsolete function name in cgroup_destroy_locked()
Documentation: cgroup-v2.rst: Correct number of stats entries
cgroup: fix obsolete function name above css_free_rwork_fn()
cgroup/cpuset: fix kernel-doc
cgroup: clean up printk()
cgroup: fix obsolete comment above cgroup_create()
docs: cgroup-v1: fix typo
docs: cgroup-v1: correct the term of Page Cache organization in inode
cgroup/misc: Store atomic64_t reads to u64
cgroup/misc: Change counters to be explicit 64bit types
cgroup/misc: update struct members descriptions
cgroup: remove cgrp->kn check in css_populate_dir()
cgroup: fix obsolete function name
cgroup: use cached local variable parent in for loop
cgroup: remove obsolete comment above struct cgroupstats
cgroup: put cgroup_tryget_css() inside CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED
...
- Work from Carlos Bilbao to integrate rustdoc output into the generated
HTML documentation. This took some work to figure out how to do it
without slowing the docs build and without creating people who don't have
Rust installed, but Carlos got there.
- Move the loongarch and mips architecture documentation under
Documentation/arch/.
- Some more maintainer documentation from Jakub
...plus the usual assortment of updates, translations, and fixes.
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Merge tag 'docs-6.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Documentation work keeps chugging along; this includes:
- Work from Carlos Bilbao to integrate rustdoc output into the
generated HTML documentation. This took some work to figure out how
to do it without slowing the docs build and without creating people
who don't have Rust installed, but Carlos got there
- Move the loongarch and mips architecture documentation under
Documentation/arch/
- Some more maintainer documentation from Jakub
... plus the usual assortment of updates, translations, and fixes"
* tag 'docs-6.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (56 commits)
Docu: genericirq.rst: fix irq-example
input: docs: pxrc: remove reference to phoenix-sim
Documentation: serial-console: Fix literal block marker
docs/mm: remove references to hmm_mirror ops and clean typos
docs/zh_CN: correct regi_chg(),regi_add() to region_chg(),region_add()
Documentation: Fix typos
Documentation/ABI: Fix typos
scripts: kernel-doc: fix macro handling in enums
scripts: kernel-doc: parse DEFINE_DMA_UNMAP_[ADDR|LEN]
Documentation: riscv: Update boot image header since EFI stub is supported
Documentation: riscv: Add early boot document
Documentation: arm: Add bootargs to the table of added DT parameters
docs: kernel-parameters: Refer to the correct bitmap function
doc: update params of memhp_default_state=
docs: Add book to process/kernel-docs.rst
docs: sparse: fix invalid link addresses
docs: vfs: clean up after the iterate() removal
docs: Add a section on surveys to the researcher guidelines
docs: move mips under arch
docs: move loongarch under arch
...
kmem.limit_in_bytes (v1 way to limit kernel memory usage) has been
deprecated since 58056f7750 ("memcg, kmem: further deprecate
kmem.limit_in_bytes") merged in 5.16. We haven't heard about any serious
users since then but it seems that the mere presence of the file is
causing more harm thatn good. We (SUSE) have had several bug reports from
customers where Docker based containers started to fail because a write to
kmem.limit_in_bytes has failed.
This was unexpected because runc code only expects ENOENT (kmem disabled)
or EBUSY (tasks already running within cgroup). So a new error code was
unexpected and the whole container startup failed. This has been later
addressed by
52390d6804
so current Docker runtimes do not suffer from the problem anymore. There
are still older version of Docker in use and likely hard to get rid of
completely.
Address this by wiping out the file completely and effectively get back to
pre 4.5 era and CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM=n configuration.
I would recommend backporting to stable trees which have picked up
58056f7750 ("memcg, kmem: further deprecate kmem.limit_in_bytes").
[mhocko@suse.com: restore _KMEM switch case]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZKe5wxdbvPi5Cwd7@dhcp22.suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230704115240.14672-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Commit e55b9f9686 ("mm: memcontrol: drop dead CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP
config symbol") removed MEMCG_SWAP as it was just a shorthand for
CONFIG_MEMCG && CONFIG_SWAP.
The commit also adjusted the documentation but missed reference to
CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP, which was the previous name of
CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP before renaming in commit c255a45805 ("memcg: rename
config variables").
Update the reference to the current state.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Pawlaczyk <krzpaw@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230728105723.251892-1-krzpaw@gmail.com
The radix-tree for Page Cache has been replaced with xarray, see
commit eb797a8ee0 ("page cache: Rearrange address_space"), so move
"radix-tree" to "xarray".
Signed-off-by: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Since commit c7c3dec1c9 ("mm: rmap: remove lock_page_memcg()"),
no more user, kill lock_page_memcg() and unlock_page_memcg().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230614143612.62575-1-wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
F_SEAL_EXEC") which permits the setting of the memfd execute bit at
memfd creation time, with the option of sealing the state of the X bit.
- Peter Xu adds a patch series ("mm/hugetlb: Make huge_pte_offset()
thread-safe for pmd unshare") which addresses a rare race condition
related to PMD unsharing.
- Several folioification patch serieses from Matthew Wilcox, Vishal
Moola, Sidhartha Kumar and Lorenzo Stoakes
- Johannes Weiner has a series ("mm: push down lock_page_memcg()") which
does perform some memcg maintenance and cleanup work.
- SeongJae Park has added DAMOS filtering to DAMON, with the series
"mm/damon/core: implement damos filter". These filters provide users
with finer-grained control over DAMOS's actions. SeongJae has also done
some DAMON cleanup work.
- Kairui Song adds a series ("Clean up and fixes for swap").
- Vernon Yang contributed the series "Clean up and refinement for maple
tree".
- Yu Zhao has contributed the "mm: multi-gen LRU: memcg LRU" series. It
adds to MGLRU an LRU of memcgs, to improve the scalability of global
reclaim.
- David Hildenbrand has added some userfaultfd cleanup work in the
series "mm: uffd-wp + change_protection() cleanups".
- Christoph Hellwig has removed the generic_writepages() library
function in the series "remove generic_writepages".
- Baolin Wang has performed some maintenance on the compaction code in
his series "Some small improvements for compaction".
- Sidhartha Kumar is doing some maintenance work on struct page in his
series "Get rid of tail page fields".
- David Hildenbrand contributed some cleanup, bugfixing and
generalization of pte management and of pte debugging in his series "mm:
support __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE on all architectures with swap
PTEs".
- Mel Gorman and Neil Brown have removed the __GFP_ATOMIC allocation
flag in the series "Discard __GFP_ATOMIC".
- Sergey Senozhatsky has improved zsmalloc's memory utilization with his
series "zsmalloc: make zspage chain size configurable".
- Joey Gouly has added prctl() support for prohibiting the creation of
writeable+executable mappings. The previous BPF-based approach had
shortcomings. See "mm: In-kernel support for memory-deny-write-execute
(MDWE)".
- Waiman Long did some kmemleak cleanup and bugfixing in the series
"mm/kmemleak: Simplify kmemleak_cond_resched() & fix UAF".
- T.J. Alumbaugh has contributed some MGLRU cleanup work in his series
"mm: multi-gen LRU: improve".
- Jiaqi Yan has provided some enhancements to our memory error
statistics reporting, mainly by presenting the statistics on a per-node
basis. See the series "Introduce per NUMA node memory error
statistics".
- Mel Gorman has a second and hopefully final shot at fixing a CPU-hog
regression in compaction via his series "Fix excessive CPU usage during
compaction".
- Christoph Hellwig does some vmalloc maintenance work in the series
"cleanup vfree and vunmap".
- Christoph Hellwig has removed block_device_operations.rw_page() in ths
series "remove ->rw_page".
- We get some maple_tree improvements and cleanups in Liam Howlett's
series "VMA tree type safety and remove __vma_adjust()".
- Suren Baghdasaryan has done some work on the maintainability of our
vm_flags handling in the series "introduce vm_flags modifier functions".
- Some pagemap cleanup and generalization work in Mike Rapoport's series
"mm, arch: add generic implementation of pfn_valid() for FLATMEM" and
"fixups for generic implementation of pfn_valid()"
- Baoquan He has done some work to make /proc/vmallocinfo and
/proc/kcore better represent the real state of things in his series
"mm/vmalloc.c: allow vread() to read out vm_map_ram areas".
- Jason Gunthorpe rationalized the GUP system's interface to the rest of
the kernel in the series "Simplify the external interface for GUP".
- SeongJae Park wishes to migrate people from DAMON's debugfs interface
over to its sysfs interface. To support this, we'll temporarily be
printing warnings when people use the debugfs interface. See the series
"mm/damon: deprecate DAMON debugfs interface".
- Andrey Konovalov provided the accurately named "lib/stackdepot: fixes
and clean-ups" series.
- Huang Ying has provided a dramatic reduction in migration's TLB flush
IPI rates with the series "migrate_pages(): batch TLB flushing".
- Arnd Bergmann has some objtool fixups in "objtool warning fixes".
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-02-20-13-37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- Daniel Verkamp has contributed a memfd series ("mm/memfd: add
F_SEAL_EXEC") which permits the setting of the memfd execute bit at
memfd creation time, with the option of sealing the state of the X
bit.
- Peter Xu adds a patch series ("mm/hugetlb: Make huge_pte_offset()
thread-safe for pmd unshare") which addresses a rare race condition
related to PMD unsharing.
- Several folioification patch serieses from Matthew Wilcox, Vishal
Moola, Sidhartha Kumar and Lorenzo Stoakes
- Johannes Weiner has a series ("mm: push down lock_page_memcg()")
which does perform some memcg maintenance and cleanup work.
- SeongJae Park has added DAMOS filtering to DAMON, with the series
"mm/damon/core: implement damos filter".
These filters provide users with finer-grained control over DAMOS's
actions. SeongJae has also done some DAMON cleanup work.
- Kairui Song adds a series ("Clean up and fixes for swap").
- Vernon Yang contributed the series "Clean up and refinement for maple
tree".
- Yu Zhao has contributed the "mm: multi-gen LRU: memcg LRU" series. It
adds to MGLRU an LRU of memcgs, to improve the scalability of global
reclaim.
- David Hildenbrand has added some userfaultfd cleanup work in the
series "mm: uffd-wp + change_protection() cleanups".
- Christoph Hellwig has removed the generic_writepages() library
function in the series "remove generic_writepages".
- Baolin Wang has performed some maintenance on the compaction code in
his series "Some small improvements for compaction".
- Sidhartha Kumar is doing some maintenance work on struct page in his
series "Get rid of tail page fields".
- David Hildenbrand contributed some cleanup, bugfixing and
generalization of pte management and of pte debugging in his series
"mm: support __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SWP_EXCLUSIVE on all architectures with
swap PTEs".
- Mel Gorman and Neil Brown have removed the __GFP_ATOMIC allocation
flag in the series "Discard __GFP_ATOMIC".
- Sergey Senozhatsky has improved zsmalloc's memory utilization with
his series "zsmalloc: make zspage chain size configurable".
- Joey Gouly has added prctl() support for prohibiting the creation of
writeable+executable mappings.
The previous BPF-based approach had shortcomings. See "mm: In-kernel
support for memory-deny-write-execute (MDWE)".
- Waiman Long did some kmemleak cleanup and bugfixing in the series
"mm/kmemleak: Simplify kmemleak_cond_resched() & fix UAF".
- T.J. Alumbaugh has contributed some MGLRU cleanup work in his series
"mm: multi-gen LRU: improve".
- Jiaqi Yan has provided some enhancements to our memory error
statistics reporting, mainly by presenting the statistics on a
per-node basis. See the series "Introduce per NUMA node memory error
statistics".
- Mel Gorman has a second and hopefully final shot at fixing a CPU-hog
regression in compaction via his series "Fix excessive CPU usage
during compaction".
- Christoph Hellwig does some vmalloc maintenance work in the series
"cleanup vfree and vunmap".
- Christoph Hellwig has removed block_device_operations.rw_page() in
ths series "remove ->rw_page".
- We get some maple_tree improvements and cleanups in Liam Howlett's
series "VMA tree type safety and remove __vma_adjust()".
- Suren Baghdasaryan has done some work on the maintainability of our
vm_flags handling in the series "introduce vm_flags modifier
functions".
- Some pagemap cleanup and generalization work in Mike Rapoport's
series "mm, arch: add generic implementation of pfn_valid() for
FLATMEM" and "fixups for generic implementation of pfn_valid()"
- Baoquan He has done some work to make /proc/vmallocinfo and
/proc/kcore better represent the real state of things in his series
"mm/vmalloc.c: allow vread() to read out vm_map_ram areas".
- Jason Gunthorpe rationalized the GUP system's interface to the rest
of the kernel in the series "Simplify the external interface for
GUP".
- SeongJae Park wishes to migrate people from DAMON's debugfs interface
over to its sysfs interface. To support this, we'll temporarily be
printing warnings when people use the debugfs interface. See the
series "mm/damon: deprecate DAMON debugfs interface".
- Andrey Konovalov provided the accurately named "lib/stackdepot: fixes
and clean-ups" series.
- Huang Ying has provided a dramatic reduction in migration's TLB flush
IPI rates with the series "migrate_pages(): batch TLB flushing".
- Arnd Bergmann has some objtool fixups in "objtool warning fixes".
* tag 'mm-stable-2023-02-20-13-37' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (505 commits)
include/linux/migrate.h: remove unneeded externs
mm/memory_hotplug: cleanup return value handing in do_migrate_range()
mm/uffd: fix comment in handling pte markers
mm: change to return bool for isolate_movable_page()
mm: hugetlb: change to return bool for isolate_hugetlb()
mm: change to return bool for isolate_lru_page()
mm: change to return bool for folio_isolate_lru()
objtool: add UACCESS exceptions for __tsan_volatile_read/write
kmsan: disable ftrace in kmsan core code
kasan: mark addr_has_metadata __always_inline
mm: memcontrol: rename memcg_kmem_enabled()
sh: initialize max_mapnr
m68k/nommu: add missing definition of ARCH_PFN_OFFSET
mm: percpu: fix incorrect size in pcpu_obj_full_size()
maple_tree: reduce stack usage with gcc-9 and earlier
mm: page_alloc: call panic() when memoryless node allocation fails
mm: multi-gen LRU: avoid futile retries
migrate_pages: move THP/hugetlb migration support check to simplify code
migrate_pages: batch flushing TLB
migrate_pages: share more code between _unmap and _move
...
changes include:
- Some significant additions to the memory-management documentation
- Some improvements to navigation in the HTML-rendered docs
- More Spanish and Chinese translations
...and the usual set of typo fixes and such.
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Merge tag 'docs-6.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It has been a moderately calm cycle for documentation; the significant
changes include:
- Some significant additions to the memory-management documentation
- Some improvements to navigation in the HTML-rendered docs
- More Spanish and Chinese translations
... and the usual set of typo fixes and such"
* tag 'docs-6.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (68 commits)
Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt: Fix Format
Documentation/watchdog/hpwdt: Fix Reference
Documentation: core-api: padata: correct spelling
docs/mm: Physical Memory: correct spelling in reference to CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION
docs: Use HTML comments for the kernel-toc SPDX line
docs: Add more information to the HTML sidebar
Documentation: KVM: Update AMD memory encryption link
printk: Document that CONFIG_BOOT_PRINTK_DELAY required for boot_delay=
Documentation: userspace-api: correct spelling
Documentation: sparc: correct spelling
Documentation: driver-api: correct spelling
Documentation: admin-guide: correct spelling
docs: add workload-tracing document to admin-guide
docs/admin-guide/mm: remove useless markup
docs/mm: remove useless markup
docs/mm: Physical Memory: remove useless markup
docs/sp_SP: Add process magic-number translation
docs: ftrace: always use canonical ftrace path
Doc/damon: fix the data path error
dma-buf: Add "dma-buf" to title of documentation
...
Charge moving mode in cgroup1 allows memory to follow tasks as they
migrate between cgroups. This is, and always has been, a questionable
thing to do - for several reasons.
First, it's expensive. Pages need to be identified, locked and isolated
from various MM operations, and reassigned, one by one.
Second, it's unreliable. Once pages are charged to a cgroup, there isn't
always a clear owner task anymore. Cache isn't moved at all, for example.
Mapped memory is moved - but if trylocking or isolating a page fails,
it's arbitrarily left behind. Frequent moving between domains may leave a
task's memory scattered all over the place.
Third, it isn't really needed. Launcher tasks can kick off workload tasks
directly in their target cgroup. Using dedicated per-workload groups
allows fine-grained policy adjustments - no need to move tasks and their
physical pages between control domains. The feature was never
forward-ported to cgroup2, and it hasn't been missed.
Despite it being a niche usecase, the maintenance overhead of supporting
it is enormous. Because pages are moved while they are live and subject
to various MM operations, the synchronization rules are complicated.
There are lock_page_memcg() in MM and FS code, which non-cgroup people
don't understand. In some cases we've been able to shift code and cgroup
API calls around such that we can rely on native locking as much as
possible. But that's fragile, and sometimes we need to hold MM locks for
longer than we otherwise would (pte lock e.g.).
Mark the feature deprecated. Hopefully we can remove it soon.
And backport into -stable kernels so that people who develop against
earlier kernels are warned about this deprecation as early as possible.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix memory.rst underlining]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y5COd+qXwk/S+n8N@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Setup instructions for memory resource controller UI uses a mix of
section headings and normal paragraphs, whereas numbered lists are
better fit for this purpose.
While at it, also slightly reword the instructions and add reference to
"Why are cgroups needed?" in the main cgroups documentation.
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The documentation contains references to other sections in the doc
(internal). Add cross-references for them so that these can be accessed
without having to manually search for them.
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Subsections text of swap extension section is marked up as bold text,
whereas making them proper subsection is more appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The stat file section contains three tables, where the leading texts for
them are subsection heading. Organize them in the bullet list, while
demoting headings into normal text.
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The caption for hierarchy of accounting figure is in the code block,
which is quite odd. Move the caption into :caption: option of
code-block:: directive instead.
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The documentation contains external references, which some of them are
marked as footnotes. Fix the syntax for them to be properly rendered as
such.
Non-footnote references aren't affected since the text for these is
aligned the same to the footnotes.
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The locking order schema is a figure (like diagram), which should have
been formatted with literal code block for consistency with other
figures.
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Wrap two other admonitions in appropriate blocks in order for readers to
pay more attention to block contents:
* hint:: for editor's note
* warning:: for move charges deprecation
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Admonition constructs on the documentation use definition lists, which
isn't fit for the purpose. Replace them with appropriate blocks:
* Use caution:: for outdated document notice
* hint:: for memo
* note:: for other constructs
* warning:: for memory reclaim
Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
MADV_FREE pages have been moved into the LRU_INACTIVE_FILE list by commit
f7ad2a6cb9 ("mm: move MADV_FREE pages into LRU_INACTIVE_FILE list").
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221111034639.3593380-1-wenjian1@xiaomi.com
Signed-off-by: Jian Wen <wenjian1@xiaomi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Since 2d1c498072 ("mm: memcontrol: make swap tracking an integral part
of memory control"), CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP hasn't been a user-visible config
option anymore, it just means CONFIG_MEMCG && CONFIG_SWAP.
Update the sites accordingly and drop the symbol.
[ While touching the docs, remove two references to CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM,
which hasn't been a user-visible symbol for over half a decade. ]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220926135704.400818-5-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
These functions have no more users, so delete them.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
During the integration of PREEMPT_RT support, the code flow around
memcg_check_events() resulted in `twisted code'. Moving the code around
and avoiding then would then lead to an additional local-irq-save
section within memcg_check_events(). While looking better, it adds a
local-irq-save section to code flow which is usually within an
local-irq-off block on non-PREEMPT_RT configurations.
The threshold event handler is a deprecated memcg v1 feature. Instead
of trying to get it to work under PREEMPT_RT just disable it. There
should be no users on PREEMPT_RT. From that perspective it makes even
less sense to get it to work under PREEMPT_RT while having zero users.
Make memory.soft_limit_in_bytes and cgroup.event_control return
-EOPNOTSUPP on PREEMPT_RT. Make an empty memcg_check_events() and
memcg_write_event_control() which return only -EOPNOTSUPP on PREEMPT_RT.
Document that the two knobs are disabled on PREEMPT_RT.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220226204144.1008339-3-bigeasy@linutronix.de
Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
For hugetlb backed jobs/VMs it's critical to understand the numa
information for the memory backing these jobs to deliver optimal
performance.
Currently this technically can be queried from /proc/self/numa_maps, but
there are significant issues with that. Namely:
1. Memory can be mapped or unmapped.
2. numa_maps are per process and need to be aggregated across all
processes in the cgroup. For shared memory this is more involved as
the userspace needs to make sure it doesn't double count shared
mappings.
3. I believe querying numa_maps needs to hold the mmap_lock which adds
to the contention on this lock.
For these reasons I propose simply adding hugetlb.*.numa_stat file,
which shows the numa information of the cgroup similarly to
memory.numa_stat.
On cgroup-v2:
cat /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/test/hugetlb.2MB.numa_stat
total=2097152 N0=2097152 N1=0
On cgroup-v1:
cat /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb/test/hugetlb.2MB.numa_stat
total=2097152 N0=2097152 N1=0
hierarichal_total=2097152 N0=2097152 N1=0
This patch was tested manually by allocating hugetlb memory and querying
the hugetlb.*.numa_stat file of the cgroup and its parents.
[colin.i.king@googlemail.com: fix spelling mistake "hierarichal" -> "hierarchical"]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211125090635.23508-1-colin.i.king@gmail.com
[keescook@chromium.org: fix copy/paste array assignment]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211203065647.2819707-1-keescook@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211123001020.4083653-1-almasrymina@google.com
Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.i.king@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jue Wang <juew@google.com>
Cc: Yang Yao <ygyao@google.com>
Cc: Joanna Li <joannali@google.com>
Cc: Cannon Matthews <cannonmatthews@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The deprecation process of kmem.limit_in_bytes started with the commit
0158115f70 ("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>
Commit bf382fb0bcef4 ("block: remove legacy IO schedulers", Oct 12 2018)
removes the CFQ scheduler, together with blkio.weight and
blkio.weight_device described in cgroup v1 documentation. Users are
supposed to use the BFQ scheduler, which cgroup file for setting weight
is blkio.bfq.weight, but there is no way to set per-device weight.
Later, commit 795fe54c2a per-device weights for BFQ, meaning that
blkio.bfq.weight and blkio.bfq.weight_device can be used in a way
similar to the old CFQ cgroup interface.
Yet, the cgroup v1 docs were never updated. Fix this:
- use the new file names;
- fix the range for weight (used to be 10..1000, now 1..1000);
- link to BFQ scheduler docs.
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kir Kolyshkin <kolyshkin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Pull cgroup changes from Tejun Heo:
"The only notable change is Vipin's new misc cgroup controller.
This implements generic support for resources which can be controlled
by simply counting and limiting the number of resource instances - ie
there's X number of these on the system and this cgroup subtree can
have upto Y of those.
The first user is the address space IDs used for virtual machine
memory encryption and expected future usages are similar - niche
hardware features with concrete resource limits and simple usage
models"
* 'for-5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
cgroup: use tsk->in_iowait instead of delayacct_is_task_waiting_on_io()
cgroup/cpuset: fix typos in comments
cgroup: misc: mark dummy misc_cg_res_total_usage() static inline
svm/sev: Register SEV and SEV-ES ASIDs to the misc controller
cgroup: Miscellaneous cgroup documentation.
cgroup: Add misc cgroup controller
Documentation of miscellaneous cgroup controller. This new controller is
used to track and limit the usage of scalar resources.
Signed-off-by: Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
When debugging an oom issue, I found the oom_kill counter of memcg is
confusing. At the first glance without checking document, I thought it
just counts for memcg oom, but it turns out it counts both global and
memcg oom.
The cgroup v2 documents it, but the description is missed for cgroup v1.
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210226021254.3980-1-shy828301@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Replace the lkml.org links with lore to better use a single source
that's more likely to stay available long-term.
Done by bash script:
cvt_lkml_to_lore ()
{
tmpfile=$(mktemp ./.cvt_links.XXXXXXX)
header=$(echo $1 | sed 's@/lkml/@/lkml/headers/@')
wget -qO - $header > $tmpfile
if [[ $? == 0 ]] ; then
link=$(grep -i '^Message-Id:' $tmpfile | head -1 | \
sed -r -e 's/^\s*Message-Id:\s*<\s*//' -e 's/\s*>\s*$//' -e 's@^@https://lore.kernel.org/r/@')
# echo "testlink: $link"
if [ -n "$link" ] ; then
wget -qO - $link > /dev/null
if [[ $? == 0 ]] ; then
echo $link
fi
fi
fi
rm -f $tmpfile
}
git grep -P -o "\bhttps?://(?:www.)?lkml.org/lkml[\/\w]+" $@ |
while read line ; do
echo $line
file=$(echo $line | cut -f1 -d':')
link=$(echo $line | cut -f2- -d':')
newlink=$(cvt_lkml_to_lore $link)
if [[ -n "$newlink" ]] ; then
sed -i -e "s#\b$link\b#$newlink#" $file
fi
done
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1265849/#1462688
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/77cdb7f32cfb087955bfc3600b86c40bed5d4104.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Since we changed the pgdat->lru_lock to lruvec->lru_lock, it's time to fix
the incorrect comments in code. Also fixed some zone->lru_lock comment
error from ancient time. etc.
I struggled to understand the comment above move_pages_to_lru() (surely
it never calls page_referenced()), and eventually realized that most of
it had got separated from shrink_active_list(): move that comment back.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1604566549-62481-20-git-send-email-alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Chen, Rong A" <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Mika Penttilä <mika.penttila@nextfour.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update cgroup v1 docs after the deprecation of the non-hierarchical mode
of the memory controller.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201110220800.929549-3-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add Sphinx reference links to HMM and CPUSETS, and numerous small
editorial changes to make the page_migration.rst document more readable.
Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200902225247.15213-1-rcampbell@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
- Christian extended clone3 so that processes can be spawned into
cgroups directly.
This is not only neat in terms of semantics but also avoids grabbing
the global cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem for migration.
- Daniel added !root xattr support to cgroupfs.
Userland already uses xattrs on cgroupfs for bookkeeping. This will
allow delegated cgroups to support such usages.
- Prateek tried to make cpuset hotplug handling synchronous but that
led to possible deadlock scenarios. Reverted.
- Other minor changes including release_agent_path handling cleanup.
* 'for-5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
docs: cgroup-v1: Document the cpuset_v2_mode mount option
Revert "cpuset: Make cpuset hotplug synchronous"
cgroupfs: Support user xattrs
kernfs: Add option to enable user xattrs
kernfs: Add removed_size out param for simple_xattr_set
kernfs: kvmalloc xattr value instead of kmalloc
cgroup: Restructure release_agent_path handling
selftests/cgroup: add tests for cloning into cgroups
clone3: allow spawning processes into cgroups
cgroup: add cgroup_may_write() helper
cgroup: refactor fork helpers
cgroup: add cgroup_get_from_file() helper
cgroup: unify attach permission checking
cpuset: Make cpuset hotplug synchronous
cgroup.c: Use built-in RCU list checking
kselftest/cgroup: add cgroup destruction test
cgroup: Clean up css_set task traversal
The cpuset in cgroup v1 accepts a special "cpuset_v2_mode" mount
option that make cpuset.cpus and cpuset.mems behave more like those in
cgroup v2. Document it to make other people more aware of this feature
that can be useful in some circumstances.
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Add docs for how to use hugetlb_cgroup reservations, and their behavior.
Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Sandipan Das <sandipan@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200211213128.73302-9-almasrymina@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Annotate references to other documents to make them clickable.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200228000653.1572553-6-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cgroup v1 memcg controller has exposed a dedicated kmem limit to users
which turned out to be really a bad idea because there are paths which
cannot shrink the kernel memory usage enough to get below the limit (e.g.
because the accounted memory is not reclaimable). There are cases when
the failure is even not allowed (e.g. __GFP_NOFAIL). This means that the
kmem limit is in excess to the hard limit without any way to shrink and
thus completely useless. OOM killer cannot be invoked to handle the
situation because that would lead to a premature oom killing.
As a result many places might see ENOMEM returning from kmalloc and result
in unexpected errors. E.g. a global OOM killer when there is a lot of
free memory because ENOMEM is translated into VM_FAULT_OOM in #PF path and
therefore pagefault_out_of_memory would result in OOM killer.
Please note that the kernel memory is still accounted to the overall limit
along with the user memory so removing the kmem specific limit should
still allow to contain kernel memory consumption. Unlike the kmem one,
though, it invokes memory reclaim and targeted memcg oom killing if
necessary.
Start the deprecation process by crying to the kernel log. Let's see
whether there are relevant usecases and simply return to EINVAL in the
second stage if nobody complains in few releases.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation text]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190911151612.GI4023@dhcp22.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Thomas Lindroth <thomas.lindroth@gmail.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
changeset fb5772cbfe ("blkio-controller.txt: Remove references to CFQ")
removed cgroup references to CFQ, but it kept one left. Get rid of
it.
Fixes: fb5772cbfe ("blkio-controller.txt: Remove references to CFQ")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
