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* mm, vmpressure: pass-through notification supportDavid Rientjes2017-07-101-12/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | By default, vmpressure events are not pass-through, i.e. they propagate up through the memcg hierarchy until an event notifier is found for any threshold level. This presents a difficulty when a thread waiting on a read(2) for a vmpressure event cannot distinguish between local memory pressure and memory pressure in a descendant memcg, especially when that thread may not control the memcg hierarchy. Consider a user-controlled child memcg with a smaller limit than a top-level memcg controlled by the "Activity Manager" specified in Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt. It may register for memory pressure notification for descendant memcgs to make a policy decision: oom kill a low priority job, increase the limit, decrease other limits, etc. If it registers for memory pressure notification on the top-level memcg, it currently cannot distinguish between memory pressure in its own memcg or a descendant memcg, which is user-controlled. Conversely, if a user registers for memory pressure notification on their own descendant memcg, the Activity Manager does not receive any pressure notification for that child memcg hierarchy. Vmpressure events are not received for ancestor memcgs if the memcg experiencing pressure have notifiers registered, perhaps outside the knowledge of the thread waiting on read(2) at the top level. Both of these are consequences of vmpressure notification not being pass-through. This implements a pass-through behavior for vmpressure events. When writing to control.event_control, vmpressure event handlers may optionally specify a mode. There are two new modes: - "hierarchy": always propagate memory pressure events up the hierarchy regardless if descendant memcgs have their own notifiers registered, and - "local": only receive notifications when the memcg for which the event is registered experiences memory pressure. Of course, processes may register for one notification of "low,local", for example, and another for "low". If no mode is specified, the current behavior is maintained for backwards compatibility. See the change to Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt for full specification. [dan.carpenter@oracle.com: free the same pointer we allocated] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170613191820.GA20003@elgon.mountain Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1705311421320.8946@chino.kir.corp.google.com Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-4.11' of ↵Linus Torvalds2017-02-271-0/+109
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: "Several noteworthy changes. - Parav's rdma controller is finally merged. It is very straight forward and can limit the abosolute numbers of common rdma constructs used by different cgroups. - kernel/cgroup.c got too chubby and disorganized. Created kernel/cgroup/ subdirectory and moved all cgroup related files under kernel/ there and reorganized the core code. This hurts for backporting patches but was long overdue. - cgroup v2 process listing reimplemented so that it no longer depends on allocating a buffer large enough to cache the entire result to sort and uniq the output. v2 has always mangled the sort order to ensure that users don't depend on the sorted output, so this shouldn't surprise anybody. This makes the pid listing functions use the same iterators that are used internally, which have to have the same iterating capabilities anyway. - perf cgroup filtering now works automatically on cgroup v2. This patch was posted a long time ago but somehow fell through the cracks. - misc fixes asnd documentation updates" * 'for-4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (27 commits) kernfs: fix locking around kernfs_ops->release() callback cgroup: drop the matching uid requirement on migration for cgroup v2 cgroup, perf_event: make perf_event controller work on cgroup2 hierarchy cgroup: misc cleanups cgroup: call subsys->*attach() only for subsystems which are actually affected by migration cgroup: track migration context in cgroup_mgctx cgroup: cosmetic update to cgroup_taskset_add() rdmacg: Fixed uninitialized current resource usage cgroup: Add missing cgroup-v2 PID controller documentation. rdmacg: Added documentation for rdmacg IB/core: added support to use rdma cgroup controller rdmacg: Added rdma cgroup controller cgroup: fix a comment typo cgroup: fix RCU related sparse warnings cgroup: move namespace code to kernel/cgroup/namespace.c cgroup: rename functions for consistency cgroup: move v1 mount functions to kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c cgroup: separate out cgroup1_kf_syscall_ops cgroup: refactor mount path and clearly distinguish v1 and v2 paths cgroup: move cgroup v1 specific code to kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c ...
| * rdmacg: Added documentation for rdmacgParav Pandit2017-01-101-0/+109
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Added documentation for v1 and v2 version describing high level design and usage examples on using rdma controller. Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <pandit.parav@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
* | Documentation: cpuset: Fix 'cpuset.tasks' -> 'tasks'W. Trevor King2017-01-131-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | This looks like it was accidentally caught up in e21a05cb (doc: cpuset: Update the cpuset flag file, 2010-02-24). While I'm touching the line, also fix the posessive "cpusets" -> "cpuset's". Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* docs: fix locations of several documents that got movedMauro Carvalho Chehab2016-10-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to the right places. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
* Merge tag 'doc-4.8-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2016-08-073-5/+5
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "Three fixes for the docs build, including removing an annoying warning on 'make help' if sphinx isn't present" * tag 'doc-4.8-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: DocBook: use DOCBOOKS="" to ignore DocBooks instead of IGNORE_DOCBOOKS=1 Documenation: update cgroup's document path Documentation/sphinx: do not warn about missing tools in 'make help'
| * Documenation: update cgroup's document pathseokhoon.yoon2016-08-033-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | cgroup's document path is changed to "cgroup-v1". update it. Signed-off-by: seokhoon.yoon <iamyooon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* | mm, vmscan: move lru_lock to the nodeMel Gorman2016-07-282-4/+4
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Node-based reclaim requires node-based LRUs and locking. This is a preparation patch that just moves the lru_lock to the node so later patches are easier to review. It is a mechanical change but note this patch makes contention worse because the LRU lock is hotter and direct reclaim and kswapd can contend on the same lock even when reclaiming from different zones. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1467970510-21195-3-git-send-email-mgorman@techsingularity.net Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Hillf Danton <hillf.zj@alibaba-inc.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Documentation/memcg: update kmem limit doc as codes behaviorQiang Huang2016-05-141-11/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The restriction of kmem setting is not there anymore because the accounting is enabled by default even in the cgroup v1 - see b313aeee2509 ("mm: memcontrol: enable kmem accounting for all cgroups in the legacy hierarchy"). Update docs accordingly. Signed-off-by: Qiang Huang <h.huangqiang@huawei.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Merge branch 'for-4.6' of ↵Linus Torvalds2016-03-181-2/+0
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: "cgroup changes for v4.6-rc1. No userland visible behavior changes in this pull request. I'll send out a separate pull request for the addition of cgroup namespace support. - The biggest change is the revamping of cgroup core task migration and controller handling logic. There are quite a few places where controllers and tasks are manipulated. Previously, many of those places implemented custom operations for each specific use case assuming specific starting conditions. While this worked, it makes the code fragile and difficult to follow. The bulk of this pull request restructures these operations so that most related operations are performed through common helpers which implement recursive (subtrees are always processed consistently) and idempotent (they make cgroup hierarchy converge to the target state rather than performing operations assuming specific starting conditions). This makes the code a lot easier to understand, verify and extend. - Implicit controller support is added. This is primarily for using perf_event on the v2 hierarchy so that perf can match cgroup v2 path without requiring the user to do anything special. The kernel portion of perf_event changes is acked but userland changes are still pending review. - cgroup_no_v1= boot parameter added to ease testing cgroup v2 in certain environments. - There is a regression introduced during v4.4 devel cycle where attempts to migrate zombie tasks can mess up internal object management. This was fixed earlier this week and included in this pull request w/ stable cc'd. - Misc non-critical fixes and improvements" * 'for-4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (44 commits) cgroup: avoid false positive gcc-6 warning cgroup: ignore css_sets associated with dead cgroups during migration Documentation: cgroup v2: Trivial heading correction. cgroup: implement cgroup_subsys->implicit_on_dfl cgroup: use css_set->mg_dst_cgrp for the migration target cgroup cgroup: make cgroup[_taskset]_migrate() take cgroup_root instead of cgroup cgroup: move migration destination verification out of cgroup_migrate_prepare_dst() cgroup: fix incorrect destination cgroup in cgroup_update_dfl_csses() cgroup: Trivial correction to reflect controller. cgroup: remove stale item in cgroup-v1 document INDEX file. cgroup: update css iteration in cgroup_update_dfl_csses() cgroup: allocate 2x cgrp_cset_links when setting up a new root cgroup: make cgroup_calc_subtree_ss_mask() take @this_ss_mask cgroup: reimplement rebind_subsystems() using cgroup_apply_control() and friends cgroup: use cgroup_apply_enable_control() in cgroup creation path cgroup: combine cgroup_mutex locking and offline css draining cgroup: factor out cgroup_{apply|finalize}_control() from cgroup_subtree_control_write() cgroup: introduce cgroup_{save|propagate|restore}_control() cgroup: make cgroup_drain_offline() and cgroup_apply_control_{disable|enable}() recursive cgroup: factor out cgroup_apply_control_enable() from cgroup_subtree_control_write() ...
| * cgroup: remove stale item in cgroup-v1 document INDEX file.Haosdent Huang2016-03-041-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Haosdent Huang <haosdent@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
* | fix Christoph's email addressesChristoph Lameter2016-03-172-2/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | There are various email addresses for me throughout the kernel. Use the one that will always be valid. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* cgroup: rename cgroup documentationsTejun Heo2016-01-1113-0/+3592
cgroup-legacy may be too loaded. Rename the docs so that they're postfixed with v1 and v2. * s/cgroup-legacy/cgroup-v1/ * s/cgroup.txt/cgroup-v2.txt/ Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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