linux-kernel - [PATCH] memcg: update document to mention swapoff should be test.

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Message-Id: <20090119155748.acc60988.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:57:48 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	"balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp" <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	"lizf@...fujitsu.com" <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"akpm@...ux-foundation.org" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] memcg: update document to mention swapoff should be test.

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

Considering recently found problem:
 memcg-fix-refcnt-handling-at-swapoff.patch

It's better to mention about swapoff behavior in memcg_test document.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
---
 Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: mmotm-2.6.29-Jan16/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt
===================================================================
--- mmotm-2.6.29-Jan16.orig/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt
+++ mmotm-2.6.29-Jan16/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Memory Resource Controller(Memcg)  Implementation Memo.
-Last Updated: 2008/12/15
-Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.28-rc8-mm.
+Last Updated: 2009/1/19
+Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.29-rc2.
 
 Because VM is getting complex (one of reasons is memcg...), memcg's behavior
 is complex. This is a document for memcg's internal behavior.
@@ -340,3 +340,23 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFI
 	# mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -t cpuset,memory,cpu,devices
 
 	and do task move, mkdir, rmdir etc...under this.
+
+ 9.7 swapoff.
+	Besides management of swap is one of complicated parts of memcg,
+	call path of swap-in at swapoff is not same as usual swap-in path..
+	It's worth to be tested explicitly.
+
+	For example, test like following is good.
+	(Shell-A)
+	# mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -t memory
+	# mkdir /cgroup/test
+	# echo 40M > /cgroup/test/memory.limit_in_bytes
+	# echo 0 > /cgroup/test/tasks
+	Run malloc(100M) program under this. You'll see 60M of swaps.
+	(Shell-B)
+	# move all tasks in /cgroup/test to /cgroup
+	# /sbin/swapoff -a
+	# rmdir /test/cgroup
+	# kill malloc task.
+
+	Of course, tmpfs v.s. swapoff test should be tested, too.

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