linux-kernel - Re: [-mm patch] Show memcg information during OOM (v3)

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Date:	Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:48:58 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
To:	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
CC:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp" <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [-mm patch] Show memcg information during OOM (v3)

>> BTW, I wonder can't we show the path of mount point ?
>> /group_A/01 is /cgroup/group_A/01 and /group_A/ is /cgroup/group_A/ on this system.
>> Very difficult ?
>>
> 
> No, it is not very difficult, we just need to append the mount point.
> The reason for not doing it is consistency with output of
> /proc/<pid>/cgroup and other places where cgroup_path prints the path
> relative to the mount point. Since we are talking about memory, the
> administrator should know where it is mounted. Do you strongly feel
> the need to add mount point? My concern is consistency with other
> cgroup output (look at /proc/sched_debug) for example.
> 

Another reason to not do so is, we can mount a specific hierarchy to
multiple mount points.
	# mount -t cgroup -o memory /mnt
	# mount -t cgroup -o memory /cgroup
	# mkdir /mnt/0
Now, /mnt/0 is the same with /cgroup/0.

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