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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol.c | 13 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst index 34911ce5e4b5..40164f2881e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst @@ -91,6 +91,13 @@ 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 Deprecated knob to set and read the kernel + memory hard limit. Kernel hard limit is not + supported since 5.16. Writing any value to + do file will not have any effect same as if + nokmem kernel parameter was specified. + Kernel memory is still charged and reported + by memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes. 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 15f44cf4f939..dacbaf4f7b2c 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -3841,6 +3841,13 @@ static ssize_t mem_cgroup_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, case _MEMSWAP: 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. " + "Writing any value to this file has no effect. " + "Please report your usecase to linux-mm@kvack.org if you " + "depend on this functionality.\n"); + ret = 0; + break; case _TCP: ret = memcg_update_tcp_max(memcg, nr_pages); break; @@ -5052,6 +5059,12 @@ static struct cftype mem_cgroup_legacy_files[] = { }, #endif { + .name = "kmem.limit_in_bytes", + .private = MEMFILE_PRIVATE(_KMEM, RES_LIMIT), + .write = mem_cgroup_write, + .read_u64 = mem_cgroup_read_u64, + }, + { .name = "kmem.usage_in_bytes", .private = MEMFILE_PRIVATE(_KMEM, RES_USAGE), .read_u64 = mem_cgroup_read_u64, |