Commit 8d50d369 authored by KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki's avatar KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Committed by Linus Torvalds

memcg: update document to mention that swapoff should be tested

Considering the recently found problem "memcg: fix refcnt handling at
swapoff", it's better to mention swapoff behavior in the memcg_test
document.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: default avatarBalbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 85d9fc89
Memory Resource Controller(Memcg) Implementation Memo. Memory Resource Controller(Memcg) Implementation Memo.
Last Updated: 2008/12/15 Last Updated: 2009/1/19
Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.28-rc8-mm. Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.29-rc2.
Because VM is getting complex (one of reasons is memcg...), memcg's behavior Because VM is getting complex (one of reasons is memcg...), memcg's behavior
is complex. This is a document for memcg's internal behavior. is complex. This is a document for memcg's internal behavior.
...@@ -340,3 +340,23 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y. ...@@ -340,3 +340,23 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y.
# mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -t cpuset,memory,cpu,devices # mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -t cpuset,memory,cpu,devices
and do task move, mkdir, rmdir etc...under this. and do task move, mkdir, rmdir etc...under this.
9.7 swapoff.
Besides management of swap is one of complicated parts of memcg,
call path of swap-in at swapoff is not same as usual swap-in path..
It's worth to be tested explicitly.
For example, test like following is good.
(Shell-A)
# mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -t memory
# mkdir /cgroup/test
# echo 40M > /cgroup/test/memory.limit_in_bytes
# echo 0 > /cgroup/test/tasks
Run malloc(100M) program under this. You'll see 60M of swaps.
(Shell-B)
# move all tasks in /cgroup/test to /cgroup
# /sbin/swapoff -a
# rmdir /test/cgroup
# kill malloc task.
Of course, tmpfs v.s. swapoff test should be tested, too.
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