The patch titled Subject: kmem: add slab-specific documentation about the kmem controller has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is kmem-add-slab-specific-documentation-about-the-kmem-controller.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: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: kmem: add slab-specific documentation about the kmem controller Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: JoonSoo Kim <js1304@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff -puN Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt~kmem-add-slab-specific-documentation-about-the-kmem-controller Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt~kmem-add-slab-specific-documentation-about-the-kmem-controller +++ a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -301,6 +301,13 @@ to trigger slab reclaim when those limit kernel memory, we prevent new processes from being created when the kernel memory usage is too high. +* slab pages: pages allocated by the SLAB or SLUB allocator are tracked. A copy +of each kmem_cache is created everytime the cache is touched by the first time +from inside the memcg. The creation is done lazily, so some objects can still be +skipped while the cache is being created. All objects in a slab page should +belong to the same memcg. This only fails to hold when a task is migrated to a +different memcg during the page allocation by the cache. + * sockets memory pressure: some sockets protocols have memory pressure thresholds. The Memory Controller allows them to be controlled individually per cgroup, instead of globally. _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch memcg-make-it-possible-to-use-the-stock-for-more-than-one-page.patch memcg-reclaim-when-more-than-one-page-needed.patch memcg-change-defines-to-an-enum.patch memcg-kmem-accounting-basic-infrastructure.patch mm-add-a-__gfp_kmemcg-flag.patch memcg-kmem-controller-infrastructure.patch mm-allocate-kernel-pages-to-the-right-memcg.patch res_counter-return-amount-of-charges-after-res_counter_uncharge.patch memcg-kmem-accounting-lifecycle-management.patch memcg-use-static-branches-when-code-not-in-use.patch memcg-allow-a-memcg-with-kmem-charges-to-be-destructed.patch memcg-execute-the-whole-memcg-freeing-in-free_worker.patch fork-protect-architectures-where-thread_size-=-page_size-against-fork-bombs.patch memcg-add-documentation-about-the-kmem-controller.patch slab-slub-struct-memcg_params.patch slab-annotate-on-slab-caches-nodelist-locks.patch slab-slub-consider-a-memcg-parameter-in-kmem_create_cache.patch memcg-allocate-memory-for-memcg-caches-whenever-a-new-memcg-appears.patch memcg-infrastructure-to-match-an-allocation-to-the-right-cache.patch memcg-skip-memcg-kmem-allocations-in-specified-code-regions.patch slb-always-get-the-cache-from-its-page-in-kmem_cache_free.patch slb-allocate-objects-from-memcg-cache.patch memcg-destroy-memcg-caches.patch memcg-slb-track-all-the-memcg-children-of-a-kmem_cache.patch memcg-slb-shrink-dead-caches.patch memcg-aggregate-memcg-cache-values-in-slabinfo.patch slab-propagate-tunable-values.patch slub-slub-specific-propagation-changes.patch kmem-add-slab-specific-documentation-about-the-kmem-controller.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