linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET] mm, memcontrol: Implement memory.swap.events

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Date:   Tue, 27 Mar 2018 06:52:17 -0700
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     hannes@...xchg.org, mhocko@...nel.org, vdavydov.dev@...il.com,
        guro@...com, riel@...riel.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com, cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] mm, memcontrol: Implement memory.swap.events

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 02:39:31PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Mar 2018 09:51:25 -0700 Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> > This patchset implements memory.swap.events which contains max and
> > fail events so that userland can monitor and respond to swap running
> > out.  It contains the following two patches.
> > 
> >  0001-mm-memcontrol-Move-swap-charge-handling-into-get_swa.patch
> >  0002-mm-memcontrol-Implement-memory.swap.events.patch
> > 
> > This patchset is on top of the "cgroup/for-4.17: Make cgroup_rstat
> > available to controllers" patchset[1] and "mm, memcontrol: Make
> > cgroup_rstat available to controllers" patchset[2] and also available
> > in the following git branch.
> > 
> >  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup.git review-memcg-swap.events
> 
> This doesn't appear to be in linux-next yet.  It should be by now if it's
> targeted at 4.17?

You're right.  It's too late for 4.17.  Let's aim for 4.18.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun