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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst | 82 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol-v1.c | 14 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 91 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst index 270501db9f4e..286d16fc22eb 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst @@ -90,9 +90,7 @@ Brief summary of control files. used. memory.swappiness set/show swappiness parameter of vmscan (See sysctl's vm.swappiness) - memory.move_charge_at_immigrate set/show controls of moving charges - This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be - used. + memory.move_charge_at_immigrate This knob is deprecated. memory.oom_control set/show oom controls. This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be used. @@ -243,10 +241,6 @@ behind this approach is that a cgroup that aggressively uses a shared page will eventually get charged for it (once it is uncharged from the cgroup that brought it in -- this will happen on memory pressure). -But see :ref:`section 8.2 <cgroup-v1-memory-movable-charges>` when moving a -task to another cgroup, its pages may be recharged to the new cgroup, if -move_charge_at_immigrate has been chosen. - 2.4 Swap Extension -------------------------------------- @@ -756,78 +750,8 @@ If we want to change this to 1G, we can at any time use:: THIS IS DEPRECATED! -It's expensive and unreliable! It's better practice to launch workload -tasks directly from inside their target cgroup. Use dedicated workload -cgroups to allow fine-grained policy adjustments without having to -move physical pages between control domains. - -Users can move charges associated with a task along with task migration, that -is, uncharge task's pages from the old cgroup and charge them to the new cgroup. -This feature is not supported in !CONFIG_MMU environments because of lack of -page tables. - -8.1 Interface -------------- - -This feature is disabled by default. It can be enabled (and disabled again) by -writing to memory.move_charge_at_immigrate of the destination cgroup. - -If you want to enable it:: - - # echo (some positive value) > memory.move_charge_at_immigrate - -.. note:: - Each bits of move_charge_at_immigrate has its own meaning about what type - of charges should be moved. See :ref:`section 8.2 - <cgroup-v1-memory-movable-charges>` for details. - -.. note:: - Charges are moved only when you move mm->owner, in other words, - a leader of a thread group. - -.. note:: - If we cannot find enough space for the task in the destination cgroup, we - try to make space by reclaiming memory. Task migration may fail if we - cannot make enough space. - -.. note:: - It can take several seconds if you move charges much. - -And if you want disable it again:: - - # echo 0 > memory.move_charge_at_immigrate - -.. _cgroup-v1-memory-movable-charges: - -8.2 Type of charges which can be moved --------------------------------------- - -Each bit in move_charge_at_immigrate has its own meaning about what type of -charges should be moved. But in any case, it must be noted that an account of -a page or a swap can be moved only when it is charged to the task's current -(old) memory cgroup. - -+---+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -|bit| what type of charges would be moved ? | -+===+==========================================================================+ -| 0 | A charge of an anonymous page (or swap of it) used by the target task. | -| | You must enable Swap Extension (see 2.4) to enable move of swap charges. | -+---+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| 1 | A charge of file pages (normal file, tmpfs file (e.g. ipc shared memory) | -| | and swaps of tmpfs file) mmapped by the target task. Unlike the case of | -| | anonymous pages, file pages (and swaps) in the range mmapped by the task | -| | will be moved even if the task hasn't done page fault, i.e. they might | -| | not be the task's "RSS", but other task's "RSS" that maps the same file. | -| | The mapcount of the page is ignored (the page can be moved independent | -| | of the mapcount). You must enable Swap Extension (see 2.4) to | -| | enable move of swap charges. | -+---+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ - -8.3 TODO --------- - -- All of moving charge operations are done under cgroup_mutex. It's not good - behavior to hold the mutex too long, so we may need some trick. +Reading memory.move_charge_at_immigrate will always return 0 and writing +to it will always return -EINVAL. 9. Memory thresholds ==================== diff --git a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c b/mm/memcontrol-v1.c index f8744f5630bb..ef7e2a0ec66a 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol-v1.c @@ -593,29 +593,19 @@ static inline int mem_cgroup_move_swap_account(swp_entry_t entry, static u64 mem_cgroup_move_charge_read(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css, struct cftype *cft) { - return mem_cgroup_from_css(css)->move_charge_at_immigrate; + return 0; } #ifdef CONFIG_MMU static int mem_cgroup_move_charge_write(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css, struct cftype *cft, u64 val) { - 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) + if (val != 0) return -EINVAL; - - /* - * No kind of locking is needed in here, because ->can_attach() will - * check this value once in the beginning of the process, and then carry - * on with stale data. This means that changes to this value will only - * affect task migrations starting after the change. - */ - memcg->move_charge_at_immigrate = val; return 0; } #else |