Commit 6df4ad70 authored by Shakeel Butt's avatar Shakeel Butt Committed by Andrew Morton

memcg: initiate deprecation of oom_control

The oom_control provides functionality to disable memcg oom-killer,
notifications on oom-kill and reading the stats regarding oom-kills.  This
interface was mainly introduced to provide functionality for userspace
oom-killers.  However it is not robust enough and only supports OOM
handling in the page fault path.

For v2, the users can use the combination of memory.events notifications,
memory.high and PSI to provide userspace OOM-killing functionality. 
Actually LMKD in Android and OOMd in systemd and Meta infrastructure
already use PSI in combination with other stats to implement userspace
OOM-killing.

Let's start the deprecation process for v1 and gather the info on how the
current users are using this interface and work on providing a more robust
functionality in v2.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240814220021.3208384-4-shakeel.butt@linux.devSigned-off-by: default avatarShakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: default avatarT.J. Mercier <tjmercier@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: default avatarRoman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 569c4f62
......@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ Brief summary of control files.
This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be
used.
memory.oom_control set/show oom controls.
This knob is deprecated and shouldn't be
used.
memory.numa_stat show the number of memory usage per numa
node
memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes Deprecated knob to set and read the kernel
......@@ -846,8 +848,10 @@ It's applicable for root and non-root cgroup.
.. _cgroup-v1-memory-oom-control:
10. OOM Control
===============
10. OOM Control (DEPRECATED)
============================
THIS IS DEPRECATED!
memory.oom_control file is for OOM notification and other controls.
......
......@@ -1994,6 +1994,9 @@ static ssize_t memcg_write_event_control(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
event->register_event = mem_cgroup_usage_register_event;
event->unregister_event = mem_cgroup_usage_unregister_event;
} else if (!strcmp(name, "memory.oom_control")) {
pr_warn_once("oom_control is deprecated and will be removed. "
"Please report your usecase to linux-mm-@kvack.org"
" if you depend on this functionality. \n");
event->register_event = mem_cgroup_oom_register_event;
event->unregister_event = mem_cgroup_oom_unregister_event;
} else if (!strcmp(name, "memory.pressure_level")) {
......@@ -2841,6 +2844,10 @@ static int mem_cgroup_oom_control_write(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
{
struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css);
pr_warn_once("oom_control is deprecated and will be removed. "
"Please report your usecase to linux-mm-@kvack.org if you "
"depend on this functionality. \n");
/* cannot set to root cgroup and only 0 and 1 are allowed */
if (mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg) || !((val == 0) || (val == 1)))
return -EINVAL;
......
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