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Vasily Averin c72d85923c memcg: enable accounting for tty-related objects
At each login the user forces the kernel to create a new terminal and
allocate up to ~1Kb memory for the tty-related structures.

By default it's allowed to create up to 4096 ptys with 1024 reserve for
initial mount namespace only and the settings are controlled by host
admin.

Though this default is not enough for hosters with thousands of
containers per node.  Host admin can be forced to increase it up to
NR_UNIX98_PTY_MAX = 1<<20.

By default container is restricted by pty mount_opt.max = 1024, but
admin inside container can change it via remount.  As a result, one
container can consume almost all allowed ptys and allocate up to 1Gb of
unaccounted memory.

It is not enough per-se to trigger OOM on host, however anyway, it
allows to significantly exceed the assigned memcg limit and leads to
troubles on the over-committed node.

It makes sense to account for them to restrict the host's memory
consumption from inside the memcg-limited container.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/5d4bca06-7d4f-a905-e518-12981ebca1b3@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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fs mm: dcache: use kmem_cache_alloc_lru() to allocate dentry 2022-03-22 15:57:03 -07:00
include mm: memcontrol: rename memcg_cache_id to memcg_kmem_id 2022-03-22 15:57:04 -07:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.