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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2014-06-05 03:07:01 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-05 03:53:58 +0400
commit3dae7fec5e884a4e72e5416db0894de66f586201 (patch)
tree7d23c8ad732b4a348d46972a2bff4421a602ef1c
parent8bf8fcb07653fbaea74f96bba1e4ed0f851675ab (diff)
downloadlinux-3dae7fec5e884a4e72e5416db0894de66f586201.tar.xz
mm: memcontrol: remove hierarchy restrictions for swappiness and oom_control
Per-memcg swappiness and oom killing can currently not be tweaked on a memcg that is part of a hierarchy, but not the root of that hierarchy. Users have complained that they can't configure this when they turned on hierarchy mode. In fact, with hierarchy mode becoming the default, this restriction disables the tunables entirely. But there is no good reason for this restriction. The settings for swappiness and OOM killing are taken from whatever memcg whose limit triggered reclaim and OOM invocation, regardless of its position in the hierarchy tree. Allow setting swappiness on any group. The knob on the root memcg already reads the global VM swappiness, make it writable as well. Allow disabling the OOM killer on any non-root memcg. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt11
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c29
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 29 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
index 2622115276aa..1829c65f8371 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -535,17 +535,15 @@ Note:
5.3 swappiness
-Similar to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but affecting a hierarchy of groups only.
+Similar to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but only affecting reclaim that is
+triggered by this cgroup's hard limit. The tunable in the root cgroup
+corresponds to the global swappiness setting.
+
Please note that unlike the global swappiness, memcg knob set to 0
really prevents from any swapping even if there is a swap storage
available. This might lead to memcg OOM killer if there are no file
pages to reclaim.
-Following cgroups' swappiness can't be changed.
-- root cgroup (uses /proc/sys/vm/swappiness).
-- a cgroup which uses hierarchy and it has other cgroup(s) below it.
-- a cgroup which uses hierarchy and not the root of hierarchy.
-
5.4 failcnt
A memory cgroup provides memory.failcnt and memory.memsw.failcnt files.
@@ -754,7 +752,6 @@ You can disable the OOM-killer by writing "1" to memory.oom_control file, as:
#echo 1 > memory.oom_control
-This operation is only allowed to the top cgroup of a sub-hierarchy.
If OOM-killer is disabled, tasks under cgroup will hang/sleep
in memory cgroup's OOM-waitqueue when they request accountable memory.
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 7bab1de50f48..20f47d9cd8b2 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -5444,22 +5444,14 @@ static int mem_cgroup_swappiness_write(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
struct cftype *cft, u64 val)
{
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css);
- struct mem_cgroup *parent = mem_cgroup_from_css(css_parent(&memcg->css));
- if (val > 100 || !parent)
+ if (val > 100)
return -EINVAL;
- mutex_lock(&memcg_create_mutex);
-
- /* If under hierarchy, only empty-root can set this value */
- if ((parent->use_hierarchy) || memcg_has_children(memcg)) {
- mutex_unlock(&memcg_create_mutex);
- return -EINVAL;
- }
-
- memcg->swappiness = val;
-
- mutex_unlock(&memcg_create_mutex);
+ if (css_parent(css))
+ memcg->swappiness = val;
+ else
+ vm_swappiness = val;
return 0;
}
@@ -5791,22 +5783,15 @@ static int mem_cgroup_oom_control_write(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
struct cftype *cft, u64 val)
{
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css);
- struct mem_cgroup *parent = mem_cgroup_from_css(css_parent(&memcg->css));
/* cannot set to root cgroup and only 0 and 1 are allowed */
- if (!parent || !((val == 0) || (val == 1)))
+ if (!css_parent(css) || !((val == 0) || (val == 1)))
return -EINVAL;
- mutex_lock(&memcg_create_mutex);
- /* oom-kill-disable is a flag for subhierarchy. */
- if ((parent->use_hierarchy) || memcg_has_children(memcg)) {
- mutex_unlock(&memcg_create_mutex);
- return -EINVAL;
- }
memcg->oom_kill_disable = val;
if (!val)
memcg_oom_recover(memcg);
- mutex_unlock(&memcg_create_mutex);
+
return 0;
}