linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2.6.32] memcg: warn on deeper hierarchies with use

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1209201531250.17455@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2012 15:33:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Paul Turner <pjt@...gle.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.32] memcg: warn on deeper hierarchies with
 use_hierarchy==0

On Thu, 20 Sep 2012, Michal Hocko wrote:

> Yes printk_once is an alternative but I really wanted to have this as
> much visible as possible. People tend to react to stack traceces more
> and this one will trigger only if somebody is either doing something
> wrong or the configuration is the one we are looking for.
> 

That's the complete opposite of what Linus has said he wants, he said very 
specifically that he doesn't want WARN_ONCE() or WARN_ON_ONCE() for 
deprecation of tunables.  If you want to have this merged, then please get 
him to ack it.

> Comparing to oom_adj, that one was used much more often so the WARN_ONCE
> was too verbose especially when you usually had to wait for an userspace
> update which is not the case here.

How is WARN_ONCE() too verbose for oom_adj?  It's printed once!  And how 
can you claim that userspace doesn't need to change if it's creating a 
hierarchy while use_hierarchy == 0?
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