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Michal Hocko 86327e8eb9 memcg: drop kmem.limit_in_bytes
kmem.limit_in_bytes (v1 way to limit kernel memory usage) has been
deprecated since 58056f7750 ("memcg, kmem: further deprecate
kmem.limit_in_bytes") merged in 5.16.  We haven't heard about any serious
users since then but it seems that the mere presence of the file is
causing more harm thatn good.  We (SUSE) have had several bug reports from
customers where Docker based containers started to fail because a write to
kmem.limit_in_bytes has failed.

This was unexpected because runc code only expects ENOENT (kmem disabled)
or EBUSY (tasks already running within cgroup).  So a new error code was
unexpected and the whole container startup failed.  This has been later
addressed by
52390d6804
so current Docker runtimes do not suffer from the problem anymore.  There
are still older version of Docker in use and likely hard to get rid of
completely.

Address this by wiping out the file completely and effectively get back to
pre 4.5 era and CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM=n configuration.

I would recommend backporting to stable trees which have picked up
58056f7750 ("memcg, kmem: further deprecate kmem.limit_in_bytes").

[mhocko@suse.com: restore _KMEM switch case]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZKe5wxdbvPi5Cwd7@dhcp22.suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230704115240.14672-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-18 10:12:11 -07:00
arch arm64: mte: simplify swap tag restoration logic 2023-08-18 10:12:02 -07:00
block block-6.5-2023-07-21 2023-07-22 11:05:15 -07:00
certs KEYS: Add missing function documentation 2023-04-24 16:15:52 +03:00
crypto crypto: algif_hash - Fix race between MORE and non-MORE sends 2023-07-08 22:48:42 +10:00
Documentation memcg: drop kmem.limit_in_bytes 2023-08-18 10:12:11 -07:00
drivers mm: remove arguments of show_mem() 2023-08-18 10:12:02 -07:00
fs ksm: add ksm zero pages for each process 2023-08-18 10:12:10 -07:00
include ksm: add ksm zero pages for each process 2023-08-18 10:12:10 -07:00
init mm: remove arguments of show_mem() 2023-08-18 10:12:02 -07:00
io_uring io_uring-6.5-2023-07-28 2023-07-28 10:19:44 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'work.namespace' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2023-02-24 19:20:07 -08:00
kernel mm/mm_init.c: remove obsolete macro HASH_SMALL 2023-08-18 10:12:07 -07:00
lib maple_tree: add a fast path case in mas_wr_slot_store() 2023-08-18 10:12:05 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm memcg: drop kmem.limit_in_bytes 2023-08-18 10:12:11 -07:00
net A patch to reduce the potential for erroneous RBD exclusive lock 2023-07-28 10:47:24 -07:00
rust rust: error: impl Debug for Error with errname() integration 2023-06-13 01:24:42 +02:00
samples arm64: ftrace: Add direct call trampoline samples support 2023-07-10 17:51:54 -04:00
scripts x86: 2023-07-30 11:19:08 -07:00
security security: keys: perform capable check only on privileged operations 2023-07-28 18:07:41 +00:00
sound ASoC: Fixes for v6.5 2023-07-27 14:54:23 +02:00
tools selftest: add a testcase of ksm zero pages 2023-08-18 10:12:10 -07:00
usr initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP 2023-06-06 17:54:49 +09:00
virt KVM: Grab a reference to KVM for VM and vCPU stats file descriptors 2023-07-29 11:05:28 -04:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
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.gitignore Revert ".gitignore: ignore *.cover and *.mbx" 2023-07-04 15:05:12 -07:00
.mailmap mailmap: update remaining active codeaurora.org email addresses 2023-07-27 13:07:05 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS - Address -Wmissing-prototype warnings 2023-06-26 16:43:54 -07:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS USB fixes for 6.5-rc4 2023-07-30 11:57:51 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.5-rc4 2023-07-30 13:23:47 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.