From bef8620cd8e0a117c1a0719604052e424eb418f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roman Gushchin Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 19:06:49 -0800 Subject: mm: memcg: deprecate the non-hierarchical mode Patch series "mm: memcg: deprecate cgroup v1 non-hierarchical mode", v1. The non-hierarchical cgroup v1 mode is a legacy of early days of the memory controller and doesn't bring any value today. However, it complicates the code and creates many edge cases all over the memory controller code. It's a good time to deprecate it completely. This patchset removes the internal logic, adjusts the user interface and updates the documentation. The alt patch removes some bits of the cgroup core code, which become obsolete. Michal Hocko said: "All that we know today is that we have a warning in place to complain loudly when somebody relies on use_hierarchy=0 with a deeper hierarchy. For all those years we have seen _zero_ reports that would describe a sensible usecase. Moreover we (SUSE) have backported this warning into old distribution kernels (since 3.0 based kernels) to extend the coverage and didn't hear even for users who adopt new kernels only very slowly. The only report we have seen so far was a LTP test suite which doesn't really reflect any real life usecase" This patch (of 3): The non-hierarchical cgroup v1 mode is a legacy of early days of the memory controller and doesn't bring any value today. However, it complicates the code and creates many edge cases all over the memory controller code. It's a good time to deprecate it completely. Functionally this patch enabled is by default for all cgroups and forbids switching it off. Nothing changes if cgroup v2 is used: hierarchical mode was enforced from scratch. To protect the ABI memory.use_hierarchy interface is preserved with a limited functionality: reading always returns "1", writing of "1" passes silently, writing of any other value fails with -EINVAL and a warning to dmesg (on the first occasion). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201110220800.929549-1-guro@fb.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201110220800.929549-2-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin Acked-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/cgroup') diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c index e41c21819ba0..80c5c34416e8 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c @@ -281,9 +281,6 @@ bool cgroup_ssid_enabled(int ssid) * - cpuset: a task can be moved into an empty cpuset, and again it takes * masks of ancestors. * - * - memcg: use_hierarchy is on by default and the cgroup file for the flag - * is not created. - * * - blkcg: blk-throttle becomes properly hierarchical. * * - debug: disallowed on the default hierarchy. @@ -5156,8 +5153,6 @@ static struct cgroup_subsys_state *css_create(struct cgroup *cgrp, cgroup_parent(parent)) { pr_warn("%s (%d) created nested cgroup for controller \"%s\" which has incomplete hierarchy support. Nested cgroups may change behavior in the future.\n", current->comm, current->pid, ss->name); - if (!strcmp(ss->name, "memory")) - pr_warn("\"memory\" requires setting use_hierarchy to 1 on the root\n"); ss->warned_broken_hierarchy = true; } -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151 From 9d9d341df4d519d96e7927941d91f5785c5cea07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roman Gushchin Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2020 19:06:55 -0800 Subject: cgroup: remove obsoleted broken_hierarchy and warned_broken_hierarchy With the deprecation of the non-hierarchical mode of the memory controller there are no more examples of broken hierarchies left. Let's remove the cgroup core code which was supposed to print warnings about creating of broken hierarchies. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201110220800.929549-4-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/cgroup-defs.h | 15 --------------- kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 7 ------- 2 files changed, 22 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/cgroup') diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h index fee0b5547cd0..559ee05f86b2 100644 --- a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h +++ b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h @@ -668,21 +668,6 @@ struct cgroup_subsys { */ bool threaded:1; - /* - * If %false, this subsystem is properly hierarchical - - * configuration, resource accounting and restriction on a parent - * cgroup cover those of its children. If %true, hierarchy support - * is broken in some ways - some subsystems ignore hierarchy - * completely while others are only implemented half-way. - * - * It's now disallowed to create nested cgroups if the subsystem is - * broken and cgroup core will emit a warning message on such - * cases. Eventually, all subsystems will be made properly - * hierarchical and this will go away. - */ - bool broken_hierarchy:1; - bool warned_broken_hierarchy:1; - /* the following two fields are initialized automtically during boot */ int id; const char *name; diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c index 80c5c34416e8..16f4692dc961 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c @@ -5149,13 +5149,6 @@ static struct cgroup_subsys_state *css_create(struct cgroup *cgrp, if (err) goto err_list_del; - if (ss->broken_hierarchy && !ss->warned_broken_hierarchy && - cgroup_parent(parent)) { - pr_warn("%s (%d) created nested cgroup for controller \"%s\" which has incomplete hierarchy support. Nested cgroups may change behavior in the future.\n", - current->comm, current->pid, ss->name); - ss->warned_broken_hierarchy = true; - } - return css; err_list_del: -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151