On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 01:24:06PM +0000, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> Commit c8713d0b2312 ("mm: memcontrol: dump memory.stat during cgroup
> OOM") made sure we dump all the stats in memory.stat during a cgroup
> OOM, but it also introduced a slight behavioral change. The code used to
> print the non-hierarchical v1 cgroup stats for the entire cgroup
> subtree, now it only prints the v2 cgroup stats for the cgroup under
> OOM.
>
> For cgroup v1 users, this introduces a few problems:
> (a) The non-hierarchical stats of the memcg under OOM are no longer
> shown.
> (b) A couple of v1-only stats (e.g. pgpgin, pgpgout) are no longer
> shown.
> (c) We show the list of cgroup v2 stats, even in cgroup v1. This list of
> stats is not tracked with v1 in mind. While most of the stats seem to be
> working on v1, there may be some stats that are not fully or correctly
> tracked.
>
> Although OOM log is not set in stone, we should not change it for no
> reason. When upgrading the kernel version to a version including
> commit c8713d0b2312 ("mm: memcontrol: dump memory.stat during cgroup
> OOM"), these behavioral changes are noticed in cgroup v1.
>
> The fix is simple. Commit c8713d0b2312 ("mm: memcontrol: dump memory.stat
> during cgroup OOM") separated stats formatting from stats display for
> v2, to reuse the stats formatting in the OOM logs. Do the same for v1.
>
> Move the v2 specific formatting from memory_stat_format() to
> memcg_stat_format(), add memcg1_stat_format() for v1, and make
> memory_stat_format() select between them based on cgroup version.
> Since memory_stat_show() now works for both v1 & v2, drop
> memcg_stat_show().
>
> Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
