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Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 14:00:03 -0700
From: "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@...gle.com>
To: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>, linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Meta kernel team <kernel-team@...a.com>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] memcg: initiate deprecation of oom_control
On Wed, Aug 14, 2024 at 1:29 PM Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev> wrote:
>
> The oom_control provides functionality to disable memcg oom-killer,
> notifications on oom-kill and reading the stats regarding oom-kills.
> This interface was mainly introduced to provide functionality for
> userspace oom-killers. However it is not robust enough and only supports
> OOM handling in the page fault path.
>
> For v2, the users can use the combination of memory.events notifications
> and memory.high interface to provide userspace OOM-killing functionality.
> Let's start the deprecation process for v1 and gather the info on how
> the current users are using this interface and work on providing a more
> robust functionality in v2.
>
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst | 8 ++++++--
> mm/memcontrol-v1.c | 7 +++++++
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
> index afe5e95e9f7b..74cea6712d06 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
> @@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ Brief summary of control files.
> This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be
> used.
> memory.oom_control set/show oom controls.
> + This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be
> + used.
> memory.numa_stat show the number of memory usage per numa
> node
> memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes Deprecated knob to set and read the kernel
> @@ -846,8 +848,10 @@ It's applicable for root and non-root cgroup.
>
> .. _cgroup-v1-memory-oom-control:
>
> -10. OOM Control
> -===============
> +10. OOM Control (DEPRECATED)
> +============================
> +
> +THIS IS DEPRECATED!
>
> memory.oom_control file is for OOM notification and other controls.
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c b/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
> index e0bb54e42011..07343e338e4e 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
> @@ -1907,6 +1907,9 @@ static ssize_t memcg_write_event_control(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
> event->register_event = mem_cgroup_usage_register_event;
> event->unregister_event = mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event;
> } else if (!strcmp(name, "memory.oom_control")) {
> + pr_warn_once("oom_control is deprecated and will be removed. "
> + "Please report your usecase to linux-mm-@...ck.org"
> + " if you depend on this functionality. \n";
Missing close paren?
> event->register_event = mem_cgroup_oom_register_event;
> event->unregister_event = mem_cgroup_oom_unregister_event;
> } else if (!strcmp(name, "memory.pressure_level")) {
> @@ -2754,6 +2757,10 @@ static int mem_cgroup_oom_control_write(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
> {
> struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css);
>
> + pr_warn_once("oom_control is deprecated and will be removed. "
> + "Please report your usecase to linux-mm-@...ck.org if you "
> + "depend on this functionality. \n";
> +
Missing close paren?
> /* cannot set to root cgroup and only 0 and 1 are allowed */
> if (mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg) || !((val == 0) || (val == 1)))
> return -EINVAL;
> --
> 2.43.5
>
>
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