[PATCH 3/4] memcg: initiate deprecation of oom_control

Shakeel Butt
2024-08-14T20:29:02Z

The oom_control provides functionality to disable memcg oom-killer,
notifications on oom-kill and reading the stats regarding oom-kills.
This interface was mainly introduced to provide functionality for
userspace oom-killers. However it is not robust enough and only supports
OOM handling in the page fault path.

For v2, the users can use the combination of memory.events notifications
and memory.high interface to provide userspace OOM-killing functionality.
Let's start the deprecation process for v1 and gather the info on how
the current users are using this interface and work on providing a more
robust functionality in v2.

Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst | 8 ++++++--
mm/memcontrol-v1.c | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
index afe5e95e9f7b..74cea6712d06 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ Brief summary of control files.
This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be
used.
memory.oom_control set/show oom controls.
+ This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be
+ used.
memory.numa_stat show the number of memory usage per numa
node
memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes Deprecated knob to set and read the kernel
@@ -846,8 +848,10 @@ It's applicable for root and non-root cgroup.

.. _cgroup-v1-memory-oom-control:

-10. OOM Control
-===============
+10. OOM Control (DEPRECATED)
+============================
+
+THIS IS DEPRECATED!

memory.oom_control file is for OOM notification and other controls.

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c b/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
index e0bb54e42011..07343e338e4e 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
@@ -1907,6 +1907,9 @@ static ssize_t memcg_write_event_control(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
event->register_event = mem_cgroup_usage_register_event;
event->unregister_event = mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event;
} else if (!strcmp(name, "memory.oom_control")) {
+ pr_warn_once("oom_control is deprecated and will be removed. "
+ "Please report your usecase to linux-mm-@kvack.org"
+ " if you depend on this functionality. \n";
event->register_event = mem_cgroup_oom_register_event;
event->unregister_event = mem_cgroup_oom_unregister_event;
} else if (!strcmp(name, "memory.pressure_level")) {
@@ -2754,6 +2757,10 @@ static int mem_cgroup_oom_control_write(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
{
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css);

+ pr_warn_once("oom_control is deprecated and will be removed. "
+ "Please report your usecase to linux-mm-@kvack.org if you "
+ "depend on this functionality. \n";
+
/* cannot set to root cgroup and only 0 and 1 are allowed */
if (mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg) || !((val == 0) || (val == 1)))
return -EINVAL;
--
2.43.5