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| author | Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> | 2012-12-19 02:21:47 +0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-12-19 03:02:12 +0400 |
| commit | 510fc4e11b772fd60f2c545c64d4c55abd07ce36 (patch) | |
| tree | d4e5b773b87e35d91b6a569bf43dc3424ac1968d /init/Kconfig | |
| parent | 86ae53e1a138a3295c04ae69bf404be00244a381 (diff) | |
| download | linux-510fc4e11b772fd60f2c545c64d4c55abd07ce36.tar.xz | |
memcg: kmem accounting basic infrastructure
Add the basic infrastructure for the accounting of kernel memory. To
control that, the following files are created:
* memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes
* memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes
* memory.kmem.failcnt
* memory.kmem.max_usage_in_bytes
They have the same meaning of their user memory counterparts. They
reflect the state of the "kmem" res_counter.
Per cgroup kmem memory accounting is not enabled until a limit is set for
the group. Once the limit is set the accounting cannot be disabled for
that group. This means that after the patch is applied, no behavioral
changes exists for whoever is still using memcg to control their memory
usage, until memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes is set for the first time.
We always account to both user and kernel resource_counters. This
effectively means that an independent kernel limit is in place when the
limit is set to a lower value than the user memory. A equal or higher
value means that the user limit will always hit first, meaning that kmem
is effectively unlimited.
People who want to track kernel memory but not limit it, can set this
limit to a very high number (like RESOURCE_MAX - 1page - that no one will
ever hit, or equal to the user memory)
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: MEMCG_MMEM only works with slab and slub]
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Acked-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'init/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | init/Kconfig | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 675d8a2326cf..19ccb33c99d9 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -882,6 +882,7 @@ config MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED config MEMCG_KMEM bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on MEMCG && EXPERIMENTAL + depends on SLUB || SLAB default n help The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit |