From e6d20325f422b3252aff2d42d8d09b2ebb434892 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Weiner Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2022 14:00:39 +0100 Subject: mm: memcontrol: deprecate charge moving commit da34a8484d162585e22ed8c1e4114aa2f60e3567 upstream. 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 Acked-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: Hugh Dickins Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- mm/memcontrol.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'mm') diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index c62d997c8ca1..751e3670d7b0 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -3930,6 +3930,10 @@ static int mem_cgroup_move_charge_write(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css, { struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css); + pr_warn_once("Cgroup memory moving (move_charge_at_immigrate) is deprecated. " + "Please report your usecase to linux-mm@kvack.org if you " + "depend on this functionality.\n"); + if (val & ~MOVE_MASK) return -EINVAL; -- cgit v1.2.3