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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-11-06 14:08:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-11-06 14:08:17 -0700
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treea94450d08468e094d2d92a495de4650faab09c1f /Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
parentfe91c4725aeed35023ba4f7a1e1adfebb6878c23 (diff)
parent658f9ae761b5965893727dd4edcdad56e5a439bb (diff)
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: "257 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: scripts, ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, kconfig, dax, kasan, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, mprotect, mremap, iomap, tracing, vmalloc, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, tools, memblock, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, readahead, nommu, ksm, vmstat, madvise, memory-hotplug, rmap, zsmalloc, highmem, zram, cleanups, kfence, and damon)" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (257 commits) mm/damon: remove return value from before_terminate callback mm/damon: fix a few spelling mistakes in comments and a pr_debug message mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism Docs/admin-guide/mm/pagemap: wordsmith page flags descriptions Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: simplify the content Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix a wrong link Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix wrong example commands mm/damon/dbgfs: add adaptive_targets list check before enable monitor_on mm/damon: remove unnecessary variable initialization Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon: add a document for DAMON_RECLAIM mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM) selftests/damon: support watermarks mm/damon/dbgfs: support watermarks mm/damon/schemes: activate schemes based on a watermarks mechanism tools/selftests/damon: update for regions prioritization of schemes mm/damon/dbgfs: support prioritization weights mm/damon/vaddr,paddr: support pageout prioritization mm/damon/schemes: prioritize regions within the quotas mm/damon/selftests: support schemes quotas mm/damon/dbgfs: support quotas of schemes ...
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@@ -87,10 +87,8 @@ Brief summary of control files.
memory.oom_control set/show oom controls.
memory.numa_stat show the number of memory usage per numa
node
- memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes set/show hard limit for kernel memory
- This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be
- used. It is planned that this be removed in
- the foreseeable future.
+ memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes This knob is deprecated and writing to
+ it will return -ENOTSUPP.
memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes show current kernel memory allocation
memory.kmem.failcnt show the number of kernel memory usage
hits limits
@@ -518,11 +516,6 @@ will be charged as a new owner of it.
charged file caches. Some out-of-use page caches may keep charged until
memory pressure happens. If you want to avoid that, force_empty will be useful.
- Also, note that when memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes is set the charges due to
- kernel pages will still be seen. This is not considered a failure and the
- write will still return success. In this case, it is expected that
- memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes == memory.usage_in_bytes.
-
5.2 stat file
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