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2012-01-13memcg: fix pgpgin/pgpgout documentationYing Han1-2/+5
The two memcg stats pgpgin/pgpgout have different meaning than the ones in vmstat, which indicates that we picked a bad naming for them. It might be late to change the stat name, but better documentation is always helpful. Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-13Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt: fix typoZhu Yanhai1-1/+1
It should be memsw.max_usage_in_bytes. This typo has been there for a really long time. Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanhai <gaoyang.zyh@taobao.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-10Merge branch 'for-3.3' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-30/+21
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup * 'for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (21 commits) cgroup: fix to allow mounting a hierarchy by name cgroup: move assignement out of condition in cgroup_attach_proc() cgroup: Remove task_lock() from cgroup_post_fork() cgroup: add sparse annotation to cgroup_iter_start() and cgroup_iter_end() cgroup: mark cgroup_rmdir_waitq and cgroup_attach_proc() as static cgroup: only need to check oldcgrp==newgrp once cgroup: remove redundant get/put of task struct cgroup: remove redundant get/put of old css_set from migrate cgroup: Remove unnecessary task_lock before fetching css_set on migration cgroup: Drop task_lock(parent) on cgroup_fork() cgroups: remove redundant get/put of css_set from css_set_check_fetched() resource cgroups: remove bogus cast cgroup: kill subsys->can_attach_task(), pre_attach() and attach_task() cgroup, cpuset: don't use ss->pre_attach() cgroup: don't use subsys->can_attach_task() or ->attach_task() cgroup: introduce cgroup_taskset and use it in subsys->can_attach(), cancel_attach() and attach() cgroup: improve old cgroup handling in cgroup_attach_proc() cgroup: always lock threadgroup during migration threadgroup: extend threadgroup_lock() to cover exit and exec threadgroup: rename signal->threadgroup_fork_lock to ->group_rwsem ... Fix up conflict in kernel/cgroup.c due to commit e0197aae59e5: "cgroups: fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc" that already mentioned that the bug is fixed (differently) in Tejun's cgroup patchset. This one, in other words.
2011-12-23Partial revert "Basic kernel memory functionality for the Memory Controller"Glauber Costa1-20/+2
This reverts commit e5671dfae59b165e2adfd4dfbdeab11ac8db5bda. After a follow up discussion with Michal, it was agreed it would be better to leave the kmem controller with just the tcp files, deferring the behavior of the other general memory.kmem.* files for a later time, when more caches are controlled. This is because generic kmem files are not used by tcp accounting and it is not clear how other slab caches would fit into the scheme. We are reverting the original commit so we can track the reference. Part of the patch is kept, because it was used by the later tcp code. Conflicts are shown in the bottom. init/Kconfig is removed from the revert entirely. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> CC: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> CC: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> CC: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> CC: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Conflicts: Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt mm/memcontrol.c Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-13cgroup: kill subsys->can_attach_task(), pre_attach() and attach_task()Tejun Heo1-20/+0
These three methods are no longer used. Kill them. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
2011-12-13cgroup: introduce cgroup_taskset and use it in subsys->can_attach(), ↵Tejun Heo1-10/+21
cancel_attach() and attach() Currently, there's no way to pass multiple tasks to cgroup_subsys methods necessitating the need for separate per-process and per-task methods. This patch introduces cgroup_taskset which can be used to pass multiple tasks and their associated cgroups to cgroup_subsys methods. Three methods - can_attach(), cancel_attach() and attach() - are converted to use cgroup_taskset. This unifies passed parameters so that all methods have access to all information. Conversions in this patchset are identical and don't introduce any behavior change. -v2: documentation updated as per Paul Menage's suggestion. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2011-12-13Display current tcp memory allocation in kmem cgroupGlauber Costa1-0/+1
This patch introduces kmem.tcp.usage_in_bytes file, living in the kmem_cgroup filesystem. It is a simple read-only file that displays the amount of kernel memory currently consumed by the cgroup. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Reviewed-by: Hiroyouki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-13tcp buffer limitation: per-cgroup limitGlauber Costa1-0/+1
This patch uses the "tcp.limit_in_bytes" field of the kmem_cgroup to effectively control the amount of kernel memory pinned by a cgroup. This value is ignored in the root cgroup, and in all others, caps the value specified by the admin in the net namespaces' view of tcp_sysctl_mem. If namespaces are being used, the admin is allowed to set a value bigger than cgroup's maximum, the same way it is allowed to set pretty much unlimited values in a real box. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Reviewed-by: Hiroyouki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-13tcp memory pressure controlsGlauber Costa1-0/+2
This patch introduces memory pressure controls for the tcp protocol. It uses the generic socket memory pressure code introduced in earlier patches, and fills in the necessary data in cg_proto struct. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujtisu.com> CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-13socket: initial cgroup code.Glauber Costa1-1/+3
The goal of this work is to move the memory pressure tcp controls to a cgroup, instead of just relying on global conditions. To avoid excessive overhead in the network fast paths, the code that accounts allocated memory to a cgroup is hidden inside a static_branch(). This branch is patched out until the first non-root cgroup is created. So when nobody is using cgroups, even if it is mounted, no significant performance penalty should be seen. This patch handles the generic part of the code, and has nothing tcp-specific. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujtsu.com> CC: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-12-13Basic kernel memory functionality for the Memory ControllerGlauber Costa1-2/+38
This patch lays down the foundation for the kernel memory component of the Memory Controller. As of today, I am only laying down the following files: * memory.independent_kmem_limit * memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes (currently ignored) * memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes (always zero) Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> CC: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> CC: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> CC: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> CC: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> CC: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-23net: add documentation for net_prio cgroups (v4)Neil Horman1-0/+53
Add the requisite documentation to explain to new users how net_prio cgroups work Signed-off-by:Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> CC: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-11-08Documentation: Fix typo in freezer-subsystem.txtRafael J. Wysocki1-2/+2
Fix a typo in Documentation/cgroups/freezer-subsystem.txt. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
2011-11-04Documentation: update cgroups notesLi Zefan1-2/+2
- ns cgroup has been removed. - it's true moving a task to another cgroup can fail. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-11-03memcg: skip scanning active lists based on individual sizeJohannes Weiner1-1/+0
Reclaim decides to skip scanning an active list when the corresponding inactive list is above a certain size in comparison to leave the assumed working set alone while there are still enough reclaim candidates around. The memcg implementation of comparing those lists instead reports whether the whole memcg is low on the requested type of inactive pages, considering all nodes and zones. This can lead to an oversized active list not being scanned because of the state of the other lists in the memcg, as well as an active list being scanned while its corresponding inactive list has enough pages. Not only is this wrong, it's also a scalability hazard, because the global memory state over all nodes and zones has to be gathered for each memcg and zone scanned. Make these calculations purely based on the size of the two LRU lists that are actually affected by the outcome of the decision. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-09-15memcg: Revert "memcg: add memory.vmscan_stat"Johannes Weiner1-84/+1
Revert the post-3.0 commit 82f9d486e59f5 ("memcg: add memory.vmscan_stat"). The implementation of per-memcg reclaim statistics violates how memcg hierarchies usually behave: hierarchically. The reclaim statistics are accounted to child memcgs and the parent hitting the limit, but not to hierarchy levels in between. Usually, hierarchical statistics are perfectly recursive, with each level representing the sum of itself and all its children. Since this exports statistics to userspace, this may lead to confusion and problems with changing things after the release, so revert it now, we can try again later. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-27memcg: add memory.vmscan_statKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki1-1/+84
The commit log of 0ae5e89c60c9 ("memcg: count the soft_limit reclaim in...") says it adds scanning stats to memory.stat file. But it doesn't because we considered we needed to make a concensus for such new APIs. This patch is a trial to add memory.scan_stat. This shows - the number of scanned pages(total, anon, file) - the number of rotated pages(total, anon, file) - the number of freed pages(total, anon, file) - the number of elaplsed time (including sleep/pause time) for both of direct/soft reclaim. The biggest difference with oringinal Ying's one is that this file can be reset by some write, as # echo 0 ...../memory.scan_stat Example of output is here. This is a result after make -j 6 kernel under 300M limit. [kamezawa@bluextal ~]$ cat /cgroup/memory/A/memory.scan_stat [kamezawa@bluextal ~]$ cat /cgroup/memory/A/memory.vmscan_stat scanned_pages_by_limit 9471864 scanned_anon_pages_by_limit 6640629 scanned_file_pages_by_limit 2831235 rotated_pages_by_limit 4243974 rotated_anon_pages_by_limit 3971968 rotated_file_pages_by_limit 272006 freed_pages_by_limit 2318492 freed_anon_pages_by_limit 962052 freed_file_pages_by_limit 1356440 elapsed_ns_by_limit 351386416101 scanned_pages_by_system 0 scanned_anon_pages_by_system 0 scanned_file_pages_by_system 0 rotated_pages_by_system 0 rotated_anon_pages_by_system 0 rotated_file_pages_by_system 0 freed_pages_by_system 0 freed_anon_pages_by_system 0 freed_file_pages_by_system 0 elapsed_ns_by_system 0 scanned_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 9471864 scanned_anon_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 6640629 scanned_file_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 2831235 rotated_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 4243974 rotated_anon_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 3971968 rotated_file_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 272006 freed_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 2318492 freed_anon_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 962052 freed_file_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 1356440 elapsed_ns_by_limit_under_hierarchy 351386416101 scanned_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 scanned_anon_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 scanned_file_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 rotated_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 rotated_anon_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 rotated_file_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 freed_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 freed_anon_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 freed_file_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 elapsed_ns_by_system_under_hierarchy 0 total_xxxx is for hierarchy management. This will be useful for further memcg developments and need to be developped before we do some complicated rework on LRU/softlimit management. This patch adds a new struct memcg_scanrecord into scan_control struct. sc->nr_scanned at el is not designed for exporting information. For example, nr_scanned is reset frequentrly and incremented +2 at scanning mapped pages. To avoid complexity, I added a new param in scan_control which is for exporting scanning score. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Andrew Bresticker <abrestic@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-23Documentation: fix ambigous text for root cpusetWanlong Gao1-1/+1
Only the root cpuset has cpuset.memory_pressure_enabled flag, but not the only one. Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-23Documentation: fix echo command in cgroups/cpuacct.txtWanlong Gao1-1/+1
Must echo a task id to the cgroups' tasks file, but not to a directory. Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <gaowanlong@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-07-07Documentation: fix cgroup blkio throttle filenamesAndrea Righi1-6/+6
All the blkio.throttle.* file names are incorrectly reported without ".throttle" in the documentation. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-16Documentation: fix cgroup typos and formattingJörg Sommer3-13/+13
Fix format and spelling. Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-16Documentation: update cgroupfs mount pointJörg Sommer7-82/+97
According to commit 676db4af0430 ("cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to mount cgroupfs on") the canonical mountpoint for the cgroup filesystem is /sys/fs/cgroup. Hence, this should be used in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-06-16memcg: add documentation for the memory.numastat APIYing Han1-0/+19
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rework text, fit it into 80-cols] Signed-off-by: Ying Han <yinghan@google.com> Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-27cgroup: remove the ns_cgroupDaniel Lezcano1-1/+1
The ns_cgroup is an annoying cgroup at the namespace / cgroup frontier and leads to some problems: * cgroup creation is out-of-control * cgroup name can conflict when pids are looping * it is not possible to have a single process handling a lot of namespaces without falling in a exponential creation time * we may want to create a namespace without creating a cgroup The ns_cgroup was replaced by a compatibility flag 'clone_children', where a newly created cgroup will copy the parent cgroup values. The userspace has to manually create a cgroup and add a task to the 'tasks' file. This patch removes the ns_cgroup as suggested in the following thread: https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018616.html The 'cgroup_clone' function is removed because it is no longer used. This is a userspace-visible change. Commit 45531757b45c ("cgroup: notify ns_cgroup deprecated") (merged into 2.6.27) caused the kernel to emit a printk warning users that the feature is planned for removal. Since that time we have heard from XXX users who were affected by this. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-27cgroups: make procs file writableBen Blum1-1/+8
Make procs file writable to move all threads by tgid at once. Add functionality that enables users to move all threads in a threadgroup at once to a cgroup by writing the tgid to the 'cgroup.procs' file. This current implementation makes use of a per-threadgroup rwsem that's taken for reading in the fork() path to prevent newly forking threads within the threadgroup from "escaping" while the move is in progress. Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-27cgroups: add per-thread subsystem callbacksBen Blum1-8/+22
Add cgroup subsystem callbacks for per-thread attachment in atomic contexts Add can_attach_task(), pre_attach(), and attach_task() as new callbacks for cgroups's subsystem interface. Unlike can_attach and attach, these are for per-thread operations, to be called potentially many times when attaching an entire threadgroup. Also, the old "bool threadgroup" interface is removed, as replaced by this. All subsystems are modified for the new interface - of note is cpuset, which requires from/to nodemasks for attach to be globally scoped (though per-cpuset would work too) to persist from its pre_attach to attach_task and attach. This is a pre-patch for cgroup-procs-writable.patch. Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-28memcg: update documentation to describe usage_in_bytesDaisuke Nishimura1-2/+13
Since 569b846d ("memcg: coalesce uncharge during unmap/truncate"), we do batched (delayed) uncharge at truncation/unmap. And since cdec2e42(memcg: coalesce charging via percpu storage), we have percpu cache for res_counter. These changes improved performance of memory cgroup very much, but made res_counter->usage usually have a bigger value than the actual value of memory usage. So, *.usage_in_bytes, which show res_counter->usage, are not desirable for precise values of memory(and swap) usage anymore. Instead of removing these files completely(because we cannot know res_counter->usage without them), this patch updates the meaning of those files. Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-05Documentation: update cgroups info user groups namesGeunsik Lim1-6/+6
Update suitable words to explain / understand cgroups contents. Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-24Merge branch 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds1-29/+1
* 'for-2.6.39/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (65 commits) Documentation/iostats.txt: bit-size reference etc. cfq-iosched: removing unnecessary think time checking cfq-iosched: Don't clear queue stats when preempt. blk-throttle: Reset group slice when limits are changed blk-cgroup: Only give unaccounted_time under debug cfq-iosched: Don't set active queue in preempt block: fix non-atomic access to genhd inflight structures block: attempt to merge with existing requests on plug flush block: NULL dereference on error path in __blkdev_get() cfq-iosched: Don't update group weights when on service tree fs: assign sb->s_bdi to default_backing_dev_info if the bdi is going away block: Require subsystems to explicitly allocate bio_set integrity mempool jbd2: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging jbd: finish conversion from WRITE_SYNC_PLUG to WRITE_SYNC and explicit plugging fs: make fsync_buffers_list() plug mm: make generic_writepages() use plugging blk-cgroup: Add unaccounted time to timeslice_used. block: fixup plugging stubs for !CONFIG_BLOCK block: remove obsolete comments for blkdev_issue_zeroout. blktrace: Use rq->cmd_flags directly in blk_add_trace_rq. ... Fix up conflicts in fs/{aio.c,super.c}
2011-03-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-10/+12
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (47 commits) doc: CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU doesn't exist anymore Update cpuset info & webiste for cgroups dcdbas: force SMI to happen when expected arch/arm/Kconfig: remove one to many l's in the word. asm-generic/user.h: Fix spelling in comment drm: fix printk typo 'sracth' Remove one to many n's in a word Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt: fixing link to genromfs drivers:scsi Change printk typo initate -> initiate serial, pch uart: Remove duplicate inclusion of linux/pci.h header fs/eventpoll.c: fix spelling mm: Fix out-of-date comments which refers non-existent functions drm: Fix printk typo 'failled' coh901318.c: Change initate to initiate. mbox-db5500.c Change initate to initiate. edac: correct i82975x error-info reported edac: correct i82975x mci initialisation edac: correct commented info fs: update comments to point correct document target: remove duplicate include of target/target_core_device.h from drivers/target/target_core_hba.c ... Trivial conflict in fs/eventpoll.c (spelling vs addition)
2011-03-16Documentation: update cgroup pid and cpuset informationEric B Munson1-0/+12
The cgroup documentation does not specify how a process can be removed from a particular group. This patch adds a note at the end of the simple example about how this is done. Also, some cgroups (like cpusets) require user input before a new group can be used. This is noted in the patch as well. Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-09Update cpuset info & webiste for cgroupsGeunSik Lim1-8/+9
cpuset related websited is changed. and, update list of cpuset using cgroup(controller group). Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim <geunsik.lim@samsung.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-03-08blk-cgroup: Lower minimum weight from 100 to 10.Justin TerAvest1-1/+1
We've found that we still get good, useful isolation at weights this low. I'd like to adjust the minimum so that any other changes can take these values into account. Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-03-01cfq-iosched: Always provide group isolation.Justin TerAvest1-28/+0
Effectively, make group_isolation=1 the default and remove the tunable. The setting group_isolation=0 was because by default we idle on sync-noidle tree and on fast devices, this can be very harmful for throughput. However, this problem can also be addressed by tuning slice_idle and possibly group_idle on faster storage devices. This change simplifies the CFQ code by removing the feature entirely. Signed-off-by: Justin TerAvest <teravest@google.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-02-17memcg: clarify use_hierarchy documentationGreg Thelen1-2/+3
The memcg code does not allow changing memory.use_hierarchy if the parent cgroup has enabled use_hierarchy. Update documentation to match the code. Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-01-14revert documentaion update for memcg's dirty ratio.KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki1-74/+0
Subjct: Revert memory cgroup dirty_ratio Documentation. The commit ece72400c2a27a3d726cb0854449f991d9fcd2da adds documentation for memcg's dirty ratio. But the function is not implemented yet. Remove the documentation for avoiding confusing users. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-14memcg: document cgroup dirty memory interfacesGreg Thelen1-0/+74
Document cgroup dirty memory interfaces and statistics. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix use_hierarchy description] Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13Merge branch 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds1-0/+27
* 'for-2.6.38/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (43 commits) block: ensure that completion error gets properly traced blktrace: add missing probe argument to block_bio_complete block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_group block cfq: don't use atomic_t for cfq_queue block: trace event block fix unassigned field block: add internal hd part table references block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges kref: add kref_test_and_get bio-integrity: mark kintegrityd_wq highpri and CPU intensive block: make kblockd_workqueue smarter Revert "sd: implement sd_check_events()" block: Clean up exit_io_context() source code. Fix compile warnings due to missing removal of a 'ret' variable fs/block: type signature of major_to_index(int) to major_to_index(unsigned) block: convert !IS_ERR(p) && p to !IS_ERR_NOR_NULL(p) cfq-iosched: don't check cfqg in choose_service_tree() fs/splice: Pull buf->ops->confirm() from splice_from_pipe actors cdrom: export cdrom_check_events() sd: implement sd_check_events() sr: implement sr_check_events() ...
2011-01-13Merge branch 'for-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-2/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (43 commits) Documentation/trace/events.txt: Remove obsolete sched_signal_send. writeback: fix global_dirty_limits comment runtime -> real-time ppc: fix comment typo singal -> signal drivers: fix comment typo diable -> disable. m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable. wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable. media: comment typo fix diable -> disable. remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description Fix spelling mistakes in comments Revert conflicting V4L changes i7core_edac: fix typos in comments mm/rmap.c: fix comment sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'. hrtimer: fix a typo in comment init/Kconfig: fix typo anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment fix comment typos concerning "consistent" poll: fix a typo in comment ... Fix up trivial conflicts in: - drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c (moved to iwl-legacy.c) - fs/ext4/ext4.h Also fix missed 'diabled' typo in drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x.h while at it.
2011-01-13cgroups: remove deprecated subsystem from examples.Trevor Woerner1-4/+4
The 'ns' cgroup is considered deprecated. Change the cgroup subsystem used in the examples of the cgroup documentation from 'ns' to 'blkio'. Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner <twoerner@gmail.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-11-15blk-cgroup: Allow creation of hierarchical cgroupsVivek Goyal1-0/+27
o Allow hierarchical cgroup creation for blkio controller o Currently we disallow it as both the io controller policies (throttling as well as proportion bandwidth) do not support hierarhical accounting and control. But the flip side is that blkio controller can not be used with libvirt as libvirt creates a cgroup hierarchy deeper than 1 level. <top-level-cgroup-dir>/<controller>/libvirt/qemu/<virtual-machine-groups> o So this patch will allow creation of cgroup hierarhcy but at the backend everything will be treated as flat. So if somebody created a an hierarchy like as follows. root / \ test1 test2 | test3 CFQ and throttling will practically treat all groups at same level. pivot / | \ \ root test1 test2 test3 o Once we have actual support for hierarchical accounting and control then we can introduce another cgroup tunable file "blkio.use_hierarchy" which will be 0 by default but if user wants to enforce hierarhical control then it can be set to 1. This way there should not be any ABI problems down the line. o The only not so pretty part is introduction of extra file "use_hierarchy" down the line. Kame-san had mentioned that hierarhical accounting is expensive in memory controller hence they keep it off by default. I suspect same will be the case for IO controller also as for each IO completion we shall have to account IO through hierarchy up to the root. if yes, then it probably is not a very bad idea to introduce this extra file so that it will be used only when somebody needs it and some people might enable hierarchy only in part of the hierarchy. o This is how basically memory controller also uses "use_hierarhcy" and they also allowed creation of hierarchies when actual backend support was not available. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Ciju Rajan K <ciju@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Ciju Rajan K <ciju@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-11-01tree-wide: fix comment/printk typosUwe Kleine-König2-2/+2
"gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address", "between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already", "equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest", "relative", "memory", "offset", "already", Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-10-28cgroup: add clone_children control fileDaniel Lezcano1-2/+12
The ns_cgroup is a control group interacting with the namespaces. When a new namespace is created, a corresponding cgroup is automatically created too. The cgroup name is the pid of the process who did 'unshare' or the child of 'clone'. This cgroup is tied with the namespace because it prevents a process to escape the control group and use the post_clone callback, so the child cgroup inherits the values of the parent cgroup. Unfortunately, the more we use this cgroup and the more we are facing problems with it: (1) when a process unshares, the cgroup name may conflict with a previous cgroup with the same pid, so unshare or clone return -EEXIST (2) the cgroup creation is out of control because there may have an application creating several namespaces where the system will automatically create several cgroups in his back and let them on the cgroupfs (eg. a vrf based on the network namespace). (3) the mix of (1) and (2) force an administrator to regularly check and clean these cgroups. This patchset removes the ns_cgroup by adding a new flag to the cgroup and the cgroupfs mount option. It enables the copy of the parent cgroup when a child cgroup is created. We can then safely remove the ns_cgroup as this flag brings a compatibility. We have now to manually create and add the task to a cgroup, which is consistent with the cgroup framework. This patch: Sent as an answer to a previous thread around the ns_cgroup. https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018627.html It adds a control file 'clone_children' for a cgroup. This control file is a boolean specifying if the child cgroup should be a clone of the parent cgroup or not. The default value is 'false'. This flag makes the child cgroup to call the post_clone callback of all the subsystem, if it is available. At present, the cpuset is the only one which had implemented the post_clone callback. The option can be set at mount time by specifying the 'clone_children' mount option. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-23Merge branch 'for-2.6.37/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds1-3/+103
* 'for-2.6.37/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: (39 commits) cfq-iosched: Fix a gcc 4.5 warning and put some comments block: Turn bvec_k{un,}map_irq() into static inline functions block: fix accounting bug on cross partition merges block: Make the integrity mapped property a bio flag block: Fix double free in blk_integrity_unregister block: Ensure physical block size is unsigned int blkio-throttle: Fix possible multiplication overflow in iops calculations blkio-throttle: limit max iops value to UINT_MAX blkio-throttle: There is no need to convert jiffies to milli seconds blkio-throttle: Fix link failure failure on i386 blkio: Recalculate the throttled bio dispatch time upon throttle limit change blkio: Add root group to td->tg_list blkio: deletion of a cgroup was causes oops blkio: Do not export throttle files if CONFIG_BLK_DEV_THROTTLING=n block: set the bounce_pfn to the actual DMA limit rather than to max memory block: revert bad fix for memory hotplug causing bounces Fix compile error in blk-exec.c for !CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK block: set the bounce_pfn to the actual DMA limit rather than to max memory block: Prevent hang_check firing during long I/O cfq: improve fsync performance for small files ... Fix up trivial conflicts due to __rcu sparse annotation in include/linux/genhd.h
2010-09-16blkio: Documentation UpdateVivek Goyal1-3/+103
o Documentation update Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-23cfq-iosched: Documentation help for new tunablesVivek Goyal1-0/+28
Some documentation to provide help with tunables. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2010-08-04Documentation: update broken web addresses.Justin P. Mattock1-1/+1
Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/* Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult, the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated. Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users. Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-05-27memcg: update documentationKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki1-93/+198
Some information are old, and I think current document doesn't work as "a guide for users". We need summary of all of our controls, at least. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27memcg: move charge of file pagesDaisuke Nishimura1-6/+12
This patch adds support for moving charge of file pages, which include normal file, tmpfs file and swaps of tmpfs file. It's enabled by setting bit 1 of <target cgroup>/memory.move_charge_at_immigrate. Unlike the case of anonymous pages, file pages(and swaps) in the range mmapped by the task will be moved even if the task hasn't done page fault, i.e. they might not be the task's "RSS", but other task's "RSS" that maps the same file. And mapcount of the page is ignored(the page can be moved even if page_mapcount(page) > 1). So, conditions that the page/swap should be met to be moved is that it must be in the range mmapped by the target task and it must be charged to the old cgroup. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning] Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-27memcg: oom kill disable and oom statusKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki1-0/+23
This adds a feature to disable oom-killer for memcg, if disabled, of course, tasks under memcg will stop. But now, we have oom-notifier for memcg. And the world around memcg is not under out-of-memory. memcg's out-of-memory just shows memcg hits limit. Then, administrator or management daemon can recover the situation by - kill some process - enlarge limit, add more swap. - migrate some tasks - remove file cache on tmps (difficult ?) Unlike oom-killer, you can take enough information before killing tasks. (by gcore, or, ps etc.) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>