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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-06-03 20:24:15 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-06-03 20:24:15 -0700 |
commit | ee01c4d72adffb7d424535adf630f2955748fa8b (patch) | |
tree | 9ea9f40473e105e936e7477ab7dc7248d899af21 /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst | |
parent | mm: thp: make the THP mapcount atomic against __split_huge_pmd_locked() (diff) | |
parent | arm64: mm: use ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX instead of arch defined (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
"More mm/ work, plenty more to come
Subsystems affected by this patch series: slub, memcg, gup, kasan,
pagealloc, hugetlb, vmscan, tools, mempolicy, memblock, hugetlbfs,
thp, mmap, kconfig"
* akpm: (131 commits)
arm64: mm: use ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX instead of arch defined
x86: mm: use ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_WX instead of arch defined
riscv: support DEBUG_WX
mm: add DEBUG_WX support
drivers/base/memory.c: cache memory blocks in xarray to accelerate lookup
mm/thp: rename pmd_mknotpresent() as pmd_mkinvalid()
powerpc/mm: drop platform defined pmd_mknotpresent()
mm: thp: don't need to drain lru cache when splitting and mlocking THP
hugetlbfs: get unmapped area below TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE for hugetlbfs
sparc32: register memory occupied by kernel as memblock.memory
include/linux/memblock.h: fix minor typo and unclear comment
mm, mempolicy: fix up gup usage in lookup_node
tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: filter out unneeded line
mm: swap: memcg: fix memcg stats for huge pages
mm: swap: fix vmstats for huge pages
mm: vmscan: limit the range of LRU type balancing
mm: vmscan: reclaim writepage is IO cost
mm: vmscan: determine anon/file pressure balance at the reclaim root
mm: balance LRU lists based on relative thrashing
mm: only count actual rotations as LRU reclaim cost
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst index 0ae4f564c2d6..12757e63b26c 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst @@ -199,11 +199,11 @@ An RSS page is unaccounted when it's fully unmapped. A PageCache page is unaccounted when it's removed from radix-tree. Even if RSS pages are fully unmapped (by kswapd), they may exist as SwapCache in the system until they are really freed. Such SwapCaches are also accounted. -A swapped-in page is not accounted until it's mapped. +A swapped-in page is accounted after adding into swapcache. Note: The kernel does swapin-readahead and reads multiple swaps at once. -This means swapped-in pages may contain pages for other tasks than a task -causing page fault. So, we avoid accounting at swap-in I/O. +Since page's memcg recorded into swap whatever memsw enabled, the page will +be accounted after swapin. At page migration, accounting information is kept. @@ -222,18 +222,13 @@ the cgroup that brought it in -- this will happen on memory pressure). But see section 8.2: when moving a task to another cgroup, its pages may be recharged to the new cgroup, if move_charge_at_immigrate has been chosen. -Exception: If CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP is not used. -When you do swapoff and make swapped-out pages of shmem(tmpfs) to -be backed into memory in force, charges for pages are accounted against the -caller of swapoff rather than the users of shmem. - -2.4 Swap Extension (CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP) +2.4 Swap Extension -------------------------------------- -Swap Extension allows you to record charge for swap. A swapped-in page is -charged back to original page allocator if possible. +Swap usage is always recorded for each of cgroup. Swap Extension allows you to +read and limit it. -When swap is accounted, following files are added. +When CONFIG_SWAP is enabled, following files are added. - memory.memsw.usage_in_bytes. - memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes. |