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| author | Mike Yuan <me@yhndnzj.com> | 2024-08-23 19:27:06 +0300 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-09-02 03:59:02 +0300 |
| commit | e399257349098bf7c84343f99efb2bc9c22eb9fd (patch) | |
| tree | b87e806e420c4b31a41b235e15214c3412f17f1d /Documentation | |
| parent | a3f6a89c834a4cba0f881da21307b26de3796133 (diff) | |
| download | linux-e399257349098bf7c84343f99efb2bc9c22eb9fd.tar.xz | |
mm/memcontrol: respect zswap.writeback setting from parent cg too
Currently, the behavior of zswap.writeback wrt. the cgroup hierarchy
seems a bit odd. Unlike zswap.max, it doesn't honor the value from parent
cgroups. This surfaced when people tried to globally disable zswap
writeback, i.e. reserve physical swap space only for hibernation [1] -
disabling zswap.writeback only for the root cgroup results in subcgroups
with zswap.writeback=1 still performing writeback.
The inconsistency became more noticeable after I introduced the
MemoryZSwapWriteback= systemd unit setting [2] for controlling the knob.
The patch assumed that the kernel would enforce the value of parent
cgroups. It could probably be workarounded from systemd's side, by going
up the slice unit tree and inheriting the value. Yet I think it's more
sensible to make it behave consistently with zswap.max and friends.
[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate#Disable_zswap_writeback_to_use_the_swap_space_only_for_hibernation
[2] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/31734
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240823162506.12117-1-me@yhndnzj.com
Fixes: 501a06fe8e4c ("zswap: memcontrol: implement zswap writeback disabling")
Signed-off-by: Mike Yuan <me@yhndnzj.com>
Reviewed-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst index 86311c2907cd..95c18bc17083 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst @@ -1717,9 +1717,10 @@ The following nested keys are defined. entries fault back in or are written out to disk. memory.zswap.writeback - A read-write single value file. The default value is "1". The - initial value of the root cgroup is 1, and when a new cgroup is - created, it inherits the current value of its parent. + A read-write single value file. The default value is "1". + Note that this setting is hierarchical, i.e. the writeback would be + implicitly disabled for child cgroups if the upper hierarchy + does so. When this is set to 0, all swapping attempts to swapping devices are disabled. This included both zswap writebacks, and swapping due |