Subject: + memcg-doc-clarify-global-vs-limit-reclaims-fix.patch added to -mm tree To: mhocko@xxxxxxx,gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx,hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx,hughd@xxxxxxxxxx,kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,klamm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,tj@xxxxxxxxxx,walken@xxxxxxxxxx From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 13:13:03 -0700 The patch titled Subject: memcg-doc-clarify-global-vs-limit-reclaims-fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is memcg-doc-clarify-global-vs-limit-reclaims-fix.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/memcg-doc-clarify-global-vs-limit-reclaims-fix.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/memcg-doc-clarify-global-vs-limit-reclaims-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Subject: memcg-doc-clarify-global-vs-limit-reclaims-fix update doc as per Johannes Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Roman Gushchin <klamm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 10 +--------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt~memcg-doc-clarify-global-vs-limit-reclaims-fix Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt~memcg-doc-clarify-global-vs-limit-reclaims-fix +++ a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -241,17 +241,9 @@ global VM. Cgroups can get reclaimed bas proportionally wrt. their LRU size in a round robin fashion - when a cgroup or its hierarchical parent (see 6. Hierarchical support) hits hard limit. If the reclaim is unsuccessful, an OOM routine is invoked - to select and kill the bulkiest task in the cgroup. (See 10. OOM Control + to select and kill the bulkiest task in the hiearchy. (See 10. OOM Control below.) -Global and hard-limit reclaims share the same code the only difference -is the objective of the reclaim. The global reclaim aims at balancing -zones' watermarks while the limit reclaim frees some memory to allow new -charges. - -NOTE: Hard limit reclaim does not work for the root cgroup, since we cannot set -any limits on the root cgroup. - Note2: When panic_on_oom is set to "2", the whole system will panic. When oom event notifier is registered, event will be delivered to the root _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mhocko@xxxxxxx are slub-fix-memcg_propagate_slab_attrs.patch mmwriteback-fix-divide-by-zero-in-pos_ratio_polynom.patch slb-charge-slabs-to-kmemcg-explicitly.patch mm-get-rid-of-__gfp_kmemcg.patch pagewalk-update-page-table-walker-core.patch pagewalk-add-walk_page_vma.patch smaps-redefine-callback-functions-for-page-table-walker.patch clear_refs-redefine-callback-functions-for-page-table-walker.patch pagemap-redefine-callback-functions-for-page-table-walker.patch numa_maps-redefine-callback-functions-for-page-table-walker.patch memcg-redefine-callback-functions-for-page-table-walker.patch arch-powerpc-mm-subpage-protc-use-walk_page_vma-instead-of-walk_page_range.patch pagewalk-remove-argument-hmask-from-hugetlb_entry.patch mempolicy-apply-page-table-walker-on-queue_pages_range.patch mm-only-force-scan-in-reclaim-when-none-of-the-lrus-are-big-enough.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-hierarchy-restrictions-for-swappiness-and-oom_control.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-hierarchy-restrictions-for-swappiness-and-oom_control-fix.patch mm-disable-zone_reclaim_mode-by-default.patch mm-page_alloc-do-not-cache-reclaim-distances.patch mm-page_alloc-do-not-cache-reclaim-distances-fix.patch documentation-memcg-warn-about-incomplete-kmemcg-state.patch memcg-kill-config_mm_owner.patch memcg-do-not-hang-on-oom-when-killed-by-userspace-oom-access-to-memory-reserves.patch memcg-slab-do-not-schedule-cache-destruction-when-last-page-goes-away.patch memcg-slab-merge-memcg_bindrelease_pages-to-memcg_uncharge_slab.patch memcg-slab-simplify-synchronization-scheme.patch memcg-mm_update_next_owner-should-skip-kthreads.patch memcg-optimize-the-search-everything-else-loop-in-mm_update_next_owner.patch memcg-kill-start_kernel-mm_init_ownerinit_mm.patch memcg-mm-introduce-lowlimit-reclaim.patch memcg-mm-introduce-lowlimit-reclaim-fix.patch memcg-allow-setting-low_limit.patch memcg-doc-clarify-global-vs-limit-reclaims.patch memcg-doc-clarify-global-vs-limit-reclaims-fix.patch memcg-document-memorylow_limit_in_bytes.patch vmscan-memcg-always-use-swappiness-of-the-reclaimed-memcg-swappiness-and-oom_control.patch mm-memcontrol-clean-up-memcg-zoneinfo-lookup.patch mm-memcontrol-remove-unnecessary-memcg-argument-from-soft-limit-functions.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html