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authorSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>2022-03-22 14:40:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2022-03-22 15:57:02 -0700
commit2343e88d238f5de973d609d861c505890f94f22e (patch)
treeaf09354cbd41201f5c41329d0f99960a2d66f24a /Documentation
parentfead2b869764f89d524b79dc8862e61d5191be55 (diff)
mm/memcg: disable threshold event handlers on PREEMPT_RT
During the integration of PREEMPT_RT support, the code flow around memcg_check_events() resulted in `twisted code'. Moving the code around and avoiding then would then lead to an additional local-irq-save section within memcg_check_events(). While looking better, it adds a local-irq-save section to code flow which is usually within an local-irq-off block on non-PREEMPT_RT configurations. The threshold event handler is a deprecated memcg v1 feature. Instead of trying to get it to work under PREEMPT_RT just disable it. There should be no users on PREEMPT_RT. From that perspective it makes even less sense to get it to work under PREEMPT_RT while having zero users. Make memory.soft_limit_in_bytes and cgroup.event_control return -EOPNOTSUPP on PREEMPT_RT. Make an empty memcg_check_events() and memcg_write_event_control() which return only -EOPNOTSUPP on PREEMPT_RT. Document that the two knobs are disabled on PREEMPT_RT. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220226204144.1008339-3-bigeasy@linutronix.de Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst2
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
index faac50149a22..2cc502a75ef6 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ Brief summary of control files.
threads
cgroup.procs show list of processes
cgroup.event_control an interface for event_fd()
+ This knob is not available on CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT systems.
memory.usage_in_bytes show current usage for memory
(See 5.5 for details)
memory.memsw.usage_in_bytes show current usage for memory+Swap
@@ -75,6 +76,7 @@ Brief summary of control files.
memory.max_usage_in_bytes show max memory usage recorded
memory.memsw.max_usage_in_bytes show max memory+Swap usage recorded
memory.soft_limit_in_bytes set/show soft limit of memory usage
+ This knob is not available on CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT systems.
memory.stat show various statistics
memory.use_hierarchy set/show hierarchical account enabled
This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be