From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shakeel Butt Subject: [PATCH v3] memcg, kmem: further deprecate kmem.limit_in_bytes Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 08:34:08 -0700 Message-ID: <20211019153408.2916808-1-shakeelb@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20210112; h=date:message-id:mime-version:subject:from:to:cc; bh=b4zuBMQ6rB3BJhMbiTI+bHBlQbKmGojFin0ETDqCqgs=; b=rFMa8vwet/lkvToH0oW1p+K5cFqa7WZrolQyzwr5vqQX//r/Z65baLysr7T2GaQULv 8oJpbjYqV+ZCU+f10JFaYReHzKzhhZMU97gcW/GVrw0J8EMgaRITnTZ+aDP3YD2jzivp bFdR3kTffPL94z08NhW7pOPcUf/BaP2+SVGmhUUMzQa4d8rtdoIHuxUUl7t4Y/MM6bND EOPoxl6N3Yn+nPGBCM68QnnxI1FaOgkfjOS21e7UQtf8kEOiEpa1fC3pm11DahghiWu2 EYOjMMffkS3e9gi+9DLre4UUmxC4X9vAJLvcmd/cX2GLBvCG7XLopZw5lF7JHX72a0il 3NKw== List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Johannes Weiner , Michal Hocko Cc: Vasily Averin , Roman Gushchin , Andrew Morton , cgroups-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Shakeel Butt , Michal Hocko , Muchun Song 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. Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: Roman Gushchin Acked-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Muchun Song Cc: Vasily Averin Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Andrew Morton --- Changes since v2: - Updated the documentation Changes since v1: - Replaced EINVAL with ENOTSUPP on setting kmem limits. - V1 was posted last year at [0]. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20201118175726.2453120-1-shakeelb-hpIqsD4AKlfQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org/ .../admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst | 11 ++---- mm/memcontrol.c | 35 +++---------------- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 40 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 ------------- diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 8f1d9c028897..49a76049a885 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2999,7 +2999,6 @@ static void obj_cgroup_uncharge_pages(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, static int obj_cgroup_charge_pages(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, gfp_t gfp, unsigned int nr_pages) { - struct page_counter *counter; struct mem_cgroup *memcg; int ret; @@ -3009,21 +3008,8 @@ static int obj_cgroup_charge_pages(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, gfp_t gfp, if (ret) goto out; - if (!cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys) && - !page_counter_try_charge(&memcg->kmem, nr_pages, &counter)) { - - /* - * Enforce __GFP_NOFAIL allocation because callers are not - * prepared to see failures and likely do not have any failure - * handling code. - */ - if (gfp & __GFP_NOFAIL) { - page_counter_charge(&memcg->kmem, nr_pages); - goto out; - } - cancel_charge(memcg, nr_pages); - ret = -ENOMEM; - } + if (!cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(memory_cgrp_subsys)) + page_counter_charge(&memcg->kmem, nr_pages); out: css_put(&memcg->css); @@ -3715,17 +3701,6 @@ static void memcg_offline_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) } #endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM */ -static int memcg_update_kmem_max(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, - unsigned long max) -{ - int ret; - - mutex_lock(&memcg_max_mutex); - ret = page_counter_set_max(&memcg->kmem, max); - mutex_unlock(&memcg_max_mutex); - return ret; -} - static int memcg_update_tcp_max(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, unsigned long max) { int ret; @@ -3791,10 +3766,8 @@ static ssize_t mem_cgroup_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, ret = mem_cgroup_resize_max(memcg, nr_pages, true); break; case _KMEM: - pr_warn_once("kmem.limit_in_bytes is deprecated and will be removed. " - "Please report your usecase to linux-mm-Bw31MaZKKs3YtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org if you " - "depend on this functionality.\n"); - ret = memcg_update_kmem_max(memcg, nr_pages); + /* kmem.limit_in_bytes is deprecated. */ + ret = -ENOTSUPP; break; case _TCP: ret = memcg_update_tcp_max(memcg, nr_pages); -- 2.33.0.1079.g6e70778dc9-goog