Re: [PATCH-cgroup 1/2] cgroup: Show # of subsystem CSSes in /proc/cgroups

[Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>]

On 7/8/24 14:45, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Waiman.
>
> On Fri, Jul 05, 2024 at 08:56:21PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>> The /proc/cgroups file shows the number of cgroups for each of the
>> subsystems.  With cgroup v1, the number of CSSes is the same as the
>> number of cgroups. That is not the case anymore with cgroup v2. The
>> /proc/cgroups file cannot show the actual number of CSSes for the
>> subsystems that are bound to cgroup v2.
>>
>> So if a v2 cgroup subsystem is leaking cgroups (typically memory
>> cgroup), we can't tell by looking at /proc/cgroups which cgroup
>> subsystems may be responsible.  This patch adds a css counter in the
>> cgroup_subsys structure to keep track of the number of CSSes for each
>> of the cgroup subsystems.
> The count sounds useful to me but can we add it in cgroup.stats instead?

That information is certainly useful to display to cgroup.stat which 
currently only shows nr_descendants and nr_dying_descendants. So does 
"nr_<subsys_name> <cnt>" for each cgroup subsystems look good to you or 
do you have other suggestion?

The reason for this patch is because I got a bug report about leaking 
blkio cgroup due to the information shown in /proc/cgroups. I know you 
want do deprecate it for cgroup v2. How about adding a iine like "# 
Deprecated for cgroup v2, use cgroup.stats file for cgroup counts" at 
the top of /proc/cgroups when cgroup v2 is active?

Cheers,
Longman