The patch titled
memcg: update menuconfig help text
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
memcg-update-menuconfig-help-text.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: memcg: update menuconfig help text
From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
page_cgroup is now allocated at boot and memmap doesn't includes pointer
for page_cgroup. Fix the menu help text.
Reviewed-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
init/Kconfig | 16 ++++++++++------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff -puN init/Kconfig~memcg-update-menuconfig-help-text init/Kconfig
--- a/init/Kconfig~memcg-update-menuconfig-help-text
+++ a/init/Kconfig
@@ -401,16 +401,20 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS
select MM_OWNER
help
- Provides a memory resource controller that manages both page cache and
- RSS memory.
+ Provides a memory resource controller that manages both anonymous
+ memory and page cache. (See Documentation/controllers/memory.txt)
Note that setting this option increases fixed memory overhead
- associated with each page of memory in the system by 4/8 bytes
- and also increases cache misses because struct page on many 64bit
- systems will not fit into a single cache line anymore.
+ associated with each page of memory in the system. By this,
+ 20(40)bytes/PAGE_SIZE on 32(64)bit system will be occupied by memory
+ usage tracking struct at boot. Total amount of this is printed out
+ at boot.
Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really
- sure you need the memory resource controller.
+ sure you need the memory resource controller. Even when you enable
+ this, you can set "cgroup_disable=memory" at your boot option to
+ disable memory resource controller and you can avoid overheads.
+ (and lose benefits of memory resource contoller)
This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which
could in turn add some fork/exit overhead.
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
cgroups-make-cgroup-config-a-submenu.patch
memcg-introduce-charge-commit-cancel-style-of-functions.patch
memcg-introduce-charge-commit-cancel-style-of-functions-fix.patch
memcg-fix-gfp_mask-of-callers-of-charge.patch
memcg-simple-migration-handling.patch
memcg-do-not-recalculate-section-unnecessarily-in-init_section_page_cgroup.patch
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