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authorChris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>2019-05-31 22:30:22 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-06-01 15:51:31 -0700
commit9852ae3fe5293264f01c49f2571ef7688f7823ce (patch)
tree6e9847c13762ce77ab3eb1e7a604be7b9cf6c09a /kernel/cgroup
parentbc81426f5beef7da863d3365bc9d45e820448745 (diff)
downloadlinux-9852ae3fe5293264f01c49f2571ef7688f7823ce.tar.gz
mm, memcg: consider subtrees in memory.events
memory.stat and other files already consider subtrees in their output, and
we should too in order to not present an inconsistent interface.

The current situation is fairly confusing, because people interacting with
cgroups expect hierarchical behaviour in the vein of memory.stat,
cgroup.events, and other files.  For example, this causes confusion when
debugging reclaim events under low, as currently these always read "0" at
non-leaf memcg nodes, which frequently causes people to misdiagnose breach
behaviour.  The same confusion applies to other counters in this file when
debugging issues.

Aggregation is done at write time instead of at read-time since these
counters aren't hot (unlike memory.stat which is per-page, so it does it
at read time), and it makes sense to bundle this with the file
notifications.

After this patch, events are propagated up the hierarchy:

    [root@ktst ~]# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/memory.events
    low 0
    high 0
    max 0
    oom 0
    oom_kill 0
    [root@ktst ~]# systemd-run -p MemoryMax=1 true
    Running as unit: run-r251162a189fb4562b9dabfdc9b0422f5.service
    [root@ktst ~]# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/memory.events
    low 0
    high 0
    max 7
    oom 1
    oom_kill 1

As this is a change in behaviour, this can be reverted to the old
behaviour by mounting with the `memory_localevents' flag set.  However, we
use the new behaviour by default as there's a lack of evidence that there
are any current users of memory.events that would find this change
undesirable.

akpm: this is a behaviour change, so Cc:stable.  THis is so that
forthcoming distros which use cgroup v2 are more likely to pick up the
revised behaviour.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190208224419.GA24772@chrisdown.name
Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cgroup')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c16
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
index 217cec4e22c6..426a0026225c 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
@@ -1810,11 +1810,13 @@ int cgroup_show_path(struct seq_file *sf, struct kernfs_node *kf_node,
 
 enum cgroup2_param {
 	Opt_nsdelegate,
+	Opt_memory_localevents,
 	nr__cgroup2_params
 };
 
 static const struct fs_parameter_spec cgroup2_param_specs[] = {
-	fsparam_flag  ("nsdelegate",		Opt_nsdelegate),
+	fsparam_flag("nsdelegate",		Opt_nsdelegate),
+	fsparam_flag("memory_localevents",	Opt_memory_localevents),
 	{}
 };
 
@@ -1837,6 +1839,9 @@ static int cgroup2_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc, struct fs_parameter *param
 	case Opt_nsdelegate:
 		ctx->flags |= CGRP_ROOT_NS_DELEGATE;
 		return 0;
+	case Opt_memory_localevents:
+		ctx->flags |= CGRP_ROOT_MEMORY_LOCAL_EVENTS;
+		return 0;
 	}
 	return -EINVAL;
 }
@@ -1848,6 +1853,11 @@ static void apply_cgroup_root_flags(unsigned int root_flags)
 			cgrp_dfl_root.flags |= CGRP_ROOT_NS_DELEGATE;
 		else
 			cgrp_dfl_root.flags &= ~CGRP_ROOT_NS_DELEGATE;
+
+		if (root_flags & CGRP_ROOT_MEMORY_LOCAL_EVENTS)
+			cgrp_dfl_root.flags |= CGRP_ROOT_MEMORY_LOCAL_EVENTS;
+		else
+			cgrp_dfl_root.flags &= ~CGRP_ROOT_MEMORY_LOCAL_EVENTS;
 	}
 }
 
@@ -1855,6 +1865,8 @@ static int cgroup_show_options(struct seq_file *seq, struct kernfs_root *kf_root
 {
 	if (cgrp_dfl_root.flags & CGRP_ROOT_NS_DELEGATE)
 		seq_puts(seq, ",nsdelegate");
+	if (cgrp_dfl_root.flags & CGRP_ROOT_MEMORY_LOCAL_EVENTS)
+		seq_puts(seq, ",memory_localevents");
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -6325,7 +6337,7 @@ static struct kobj_attribute cgroup_delegate_attr = __ATTR_RO(delegate);
 static ssize_t features_show(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
 			     char *buf)
 {
-	return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "nsdelegate\n");
+	return snprintf(buf, PAGE_SIZE, "nsdelegate\nmemory_localevents\n");
 }
 static struct kobj_attribute cgroup_features_attr = __ATTR_RO(features);