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diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 9b1067afb224..dd88540bb995 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -184,12 +184,14 @@ 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 section 8.2: when moving a task to another cgroup, its pages may +be recharged to the new cgroup, if move_charge_at_immigrate has been chosen. + Exception: If CONFIG_CGROUP_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP is not used. When you do swapoff and make swapped-out pages of shmem(tmpfs) to be backed into memory in force, charges for pages are accounted against the caller of swapoff rather than the users of shmem. - 2.4 Swap Extension (CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP) Swap Extension allows you to record charge for swap. A swapped-in page is @@ -374,14 +376,15 @@ cgroup might have some charge associated with it, even though all tasks have migrated away from it. (because we charge against pages, not against tasks.) -Such charges are freed or moved to their parent. At moving, both of RSS -and CACHES are moved to parent. -rmdir() may return -EBUSY if freeing/moving fails. See 5.1 also. +We move the stats to root (if use_hierarchy==0) or parent (if +use_hierarchy==1), and no change on the charge except uncharging +from the child. Charges recorded in swap information is not updated at removal of cgroup. Recorded information is discarded and a cgroup which uses swap (swapcache) will be charged as a new owner of it. +About use_hierarchy, see Section 6. 5. Misc. interfaces. @@ -394,13 +397,15 @@ will be charged as a new owner of it. Almost all pages tracked by this memory cgroup will be unmapped and freed. Some pages cannot be freed because they are locked or in-use. Such pages are - moved to parent and this cgroup will be empty. This may return -EBUSY if - VM is too busy to free/move all pages immediately. + moved to parent(if use_hierarchy==1) or root (if use_hierarchy==0) and this + cgroup will be empty. Typical use case of this interface is that calling this before rmdir(). Because rmdir() moves all pages to parent, some out-of-use page caches can be moved to the parent. If you want to avoid that, force_empty will be useful. + About use_hierarchy, see Section 6. + 5.2 stat file memory.stat file includes following statistics @@ -430,17 +435,10 @@ hierarchical_memory_limit - # of bytes of memory limit with regard to hierarchy hierarchical_memsw_limit - # of bytes of memory+swap limit with regard to hierarchy under which memory cgroup is. -total_cache - sum of all children's "cache" -total_rss - sum of all children's "rss" -total_mapped_file - sum of all children's "cache" -total_pgpgin - sum of all children's "pgpgin" -total_pgpgout - sum of all children's "pgpgout" -total_swap - sum of all children's "swap" -total_inactive_anon - sum of all children's "inactive_anon" -total_active_anon - sum of all children's "active_anon" -total_inactive_file - sum of all children's "inactive_file" -total_active_file - sum of all children's "active_file" -total_unevictable - sum of all children's "unevictable" +total_<counter> - # hierarchical version of <counter>, which in + addition to the cgroup's own value includes the + sum of all hierarchical children's values of + <counter>, i.e. total_cache # The following additional stats are dependent on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM. @@ -622,8 +620,7 @@ 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. - | Those pages and swaps must be used only by the target task. You must - | enable Swap Extension(see 2.4) to enable move of swap charges. + | 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 @@ -636,8 +633,6 @@ memory cgroup. 8.3 TODO -- Implement madvise(2) to let users decide the vma to be moved or not to be - moved. - 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. |