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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-03 20:24:15 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2020-06-03 20:24:15 -0700
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parentarm64: 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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@@ -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.