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Patch series "mm: memcg: deprecate cgroup v1 non-hierarchical mode", v1. The non-hierarchical cgroup v1 mode is a legacy of early days of the memory controller and doesn't bring any value today. However, it complicates the code and creates many edge cases all over the memory controller code. It's a good time to deprecate it completely. This patchset removes the internal logic, adjusts the user interface and updates the documentation. The alt patch removes some bits of the cgroup core code, which become obsolete. Michal Hocko said: "All that we know today is that we have a warning in place to complain loudly when somebody relies on use_hierarchy=0 with a deeper hierarchy. For all those years we have seen _zero_ reports that would describe a sensible usecase. Moreover we (SUSE) have backported this warning into old distribution kernels (since 3.0 based kernels) to extend the coverage and didn't hear even for users who adopt new kernels only very slowly. The only report we have seen so far was a LTP test suite which doesn't really reflect any real life usecase" This patch (of 3): The non-hierarchical cgroup v1 mode is a legacy of early days of the memory controller and doesn't bring any value today. However, it complicates the code and creates many edge cases all over the memory controller code. It's a good time to deprecate it completely. Functionally this patch enabled is by default for all cgroups and forbids switching it off. Nothing changes if cgroup v2 is used: hierarchical mode was enforced from scratch. To protect the ABI memory.use_hierarchy interface is preserved with a limited functionality: reading always returns "1", writing of "1" passes silently, writing of any other value fails with -EINVAL and a warning to dmesg (on the first occasion). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201110220800.929549-1-guro@fb.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201110220800.929549-2-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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