linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: remove CONFIG_MEMCG

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Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 15:17:45 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
 Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>, Roman Gushchin
 <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>, Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>,
 Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
 cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: remove CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM

On 01.07.24 17:31, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM used to be a user-visible option for whether slab
> tracking is enabled. It has been default-enabled and equivalent to
> CONFIG_MEMCG for almost a decade. We've only grown more kernel memory
> accounting sites since, and there is no imaginable cgroup usecase
> going forward that wants to track user pages but not the multitude of
> user-drivable kernel allocations.

Absolutely

Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>

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Cheers,

David / dhildenb