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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol.c | 3 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst index 41bdc038dad9..0ae4f564c2d6 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst @@ -85,8 +85,10 @@ Brief summary of control files. memory.oom_control set/show oom controls. memory.numa_stat show the number of memory usage per numa node - memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes set/show hard limit for kernel memory + This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be + used. It is planned that this be removed in + the foreseeable future. memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes show current kernel memory allocation memory.kmem.failcnt show the number of kernel memory usage hits limits diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 701c1ab79d24..7bb2971dc75e 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -3637,6 +3637,9 @@ static ssize_t mem_cgroup_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, ret = mem_cgroup_resize_max(memcg, nr_pages, true); break; case _KMEM: + pr_warn_once("kmem.limit_in_bytes is deprecated and will be removed. " + "Please report your usecase to linux-mm@kvack.org if you " + "depend on this functionality.\n"); ret = memcg_update_kmem_max(memcg, nr_pages); break; case _TCP: |