[PATCH v1 4/5] mm, shmem: add tmpfs memcg= option documentation

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Signed-off-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@xxxxxxxxxx>

Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: riel@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: cgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

---
 Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst
index 0408c245785e3..1ab04e8fa9222 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/tmpfs.rst
@@ -137,6 +137,23 @@ mount options.  It can be added later, when the tmpfs is already mounted
 on MountPoint, by 'mount -o remount,mpol=Policy:NodeList MountPoint'.


+If CONFIG_MEMCG is enabled, tmpfs has a mount option to specify the memory
+cgroup to be charged for page allocations.
+
+memcg=/sys/fs/cgroup/unified/test/: data page allocations are charged to
+cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/test/.
+
+When charging memory to the remote memcg (memcg specified with memcg=) and
+hitting the limit, the oom-killer will be invoked and will attempt to kill
+a process in the remote memcg. If no such processes are found, the remote
+charging process gets an ENOMEM. If the remote charging process is in the
+pagefault path, it gets killed.
+
+Only processes that have access to /sys/fs/cgroup/unified/test/cgroup.procs can
+mount a tmpfs with memcg=/sys/fs/cgroup/unified/test. Thus, a process is able
+to charge memory to a cgroup only if it itself is able to enter that cgroup.
+
+
 To specify the initial root directory you can use the following mount
 options:

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2.34.0.rc0.344.g81b53c2807-goog



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