On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 08:01:37AM +0100, Narcis Garcia wrote: > El 12/2/24 a les 23:37, Yosry Ahmed ha escrit: > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2024 at 1:33 AM Narcis Garcia <debianlists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> I read this warning on Linux 6.1 boot: > >> The swapaccount= commandline option is deprecated. Please report your > >> usecase to linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx if you depend on this functionality. > >> > >> And I want to know if this impacts on LinuX Containers (LXC) swap > >> accounting. > > > > swapaccount= was deprecated in the sense that it is always on now > > (i.e. you cannot do swapaccount=0 anymore). I believe you are using > > swapaccount=1 and want to make sure that swap accounting will still > > work with v6.1, right? > > > > This is the second question we have had about this message [1]. I > > think we need to clarify the warning (and perhaps backport to stable > > kernels). > > > > [1]https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/2593755.Xrv9ptJ69j@sinistra.local/ > > > Thank you for answering this question, and sure this clarification is > needed both in documentation and warning message. > I've found deprecation message was commited on 26 Sep 2022. > From what Linux version release, this deprecation is included? Thanks for reporting this. I sent out a patch to only warn when disabling is requested, and clarify the message a bit. The knob was deprecated in Linux 6.1.
