The patch titled
Subject: memcg: initiate deprecation of pressure_level
has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is
memcg-initiate-deprecation-of-pressure_level.patch
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https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/memcg-initiate-deprecation-of-pressure_level.patch
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From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: memcg: initiate deprecation of pressure_level
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:28:25 -0700
The pressure_level in memcg v1 provides memory pressure notifications to
the user space. At the moment it provides notifications for three levels
of memory pressure i.e. low, medium and critical, which are defined based
on internal memory reclaim implementation details. More specifically the
ratio or scanned and reclaimed pages during a memory reclaim. However
this is not robust as there are workloads with mostly unreclaimable user
memory or kernel memory.
For v2, the users can use PSI for memory pressure status of the system or
the cgroup. Let's start the deprecation process for pressure_level and
add warnings to gather the info on how the current users are using this
interface and how they can be used to PSI.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240814202825.2694077-5-shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst | 8 ++++++--
mm/memcontrol-v1.c | 3 +++
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst~memcg-initiate-deprecation-of-pressure_level
+++ a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
@@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ Brief summary of control files.
used.
memory.force_empty trigger forced page reclaim
memory.pressure_level set memory pressure notifications
+ This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be
+ used.
memory.swappiness set/show swappiness parameter of vmscan
(See sysctl's vm.swappiness)
memory.move_charge_at_immigrate set/show controls of moving charges
@@ -898,8 +900,10 @@ At reading, current status of OOM is sho
The number of processes belonging to this cgroup killed by any
kind of OOM killer.
-11. Memory Pressure
-===================
+11. Memory Pressure (DEPRECATED)
+================================
+
+THIS IS DEPRECATED!
The pressure level notifications can be used to monitor the memory
allocation cost; based on the pressure, applications can implement
--- a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c~memcg-initiate-deprecation-of-pressure_level
+++ a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
@@ -1910,6 +1910,9 @@ static ssize_t memcg_write_event_control
event->register_event = mem_cgroup_oom_register_event;
event->unregister_event = mem_cgroup_oom_unregister_event;
} else if (!strcmp(name, "memory.pressure_level")) {
+ pr_warn_once("pressure_level is deprecated and will be removed. "
+ "Please report your usecase to linux-mm-@xxxxxxxxx "
+ "if you depend on this functionality. \n";
event->register_event = vmpressure_register_event;
event->unregister_event = vmpressure_unregister_event;
} else if (!strcmp(name, "memory.memsw.usage_in_bytes")) {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx are
memcg-increase-the-valid-index-range-for-memcg-stats.patch
memcg-replace-memcg-id-idr-with-xarray.patch
memcg-use-ratelimited-stats-flush-in-the-reclaim.patch
memcg-initiate-deprecation-of-v1-tcp-accounting.patch
memcg-initiate-deprecation-of-v1-soft-limit.patch
memcg-initiate-deprecation-of-oom_control.patch
memcg-initiate-deprecation-of-pressure_level.patch
