linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 08/11] mm: Add transformation message for per-memcg swappiness

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Message-ID: <20250311123640.530377-9-mkoutny@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 13:36:25 +0100
From: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>
To: cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@...ux.dev>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@...ux.dev>,
	Muchun Song <muchun.song@...ux.dev>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 08/11] mm: Add transformation message for per-memcg swappiness

The concept of per-memcg swappiness has never landed well in memcg for
cgroup v2. Add a message to users who use it on v1 hierarchy.
Decreased swappiness transforms to memory.swap.max=0 whereas
increased swappiness transforms into active memory.reclaim operation.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1577252208-32419-1-git-send-email-teawater@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>
---
 Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst | 1 +
 mm/memcontrol-v1.c                             | 6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
index 286d16fc22ebb..02b8206a35941 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ Brief summary of control files.
                                      used.
  memory.swappiness		     set/show swappiness parameter of vmscan
 				     (See sysctl's vm.swappiness)
+				     Per memcg knob does not exist in cgroup v2.
  memory.move_charge_at_immigrate     This knob is deprecated.
  memory.oom_control		     set/show oom controls.
                                      This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c b/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
index 2be6b9112808c..29ca6489b4ff7 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
@@ -1855,9 +1855,11 @@ static int mem_cgroup_swappiness_write(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
 	if (val > MAX_SWAPPINESS)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
+	if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg)) {
+		pr_info_once("Per memcg swappiness does not exist in cgroup v2. "
+			     "See memory.reclaim or memory.swap.max there\n ")
 		WRITE_ONCE(memcg->swappiness, val);
-	else
+	} else
 		WRITE_ONCE(vm_swappiness, val);
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.48.1