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Roman Gushchin 63677c745d mm, memcg: reset memory.low during memcg offlining
A removed memory cgroup with a defined memory.low and some belonging
pagecache has very low chances to be freed.

If a cgroup has been removed, there is likely no memory pressure inside
the cgroup, and the pagecache is protected from the external pressure by
the defined low limit.  The cgroup will be freed only after the reclaim
of all belonging pages.  And it will not happen until there are any
reclaimable memory in the system.  That means, there is a good chance,
that a cold pagecache will reside in the memory for an undefined amount
of time, wasting system resources.

This problem was fixed earlier by fa06235b8e ("cgroup: reset css on
destruction"), but it's not a best way to do it, as we can't really
reset all limits/counters during cgroup offlining.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170727130428.28856-1-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-09-06 17:27:27 -07:00
arch metag/numa: remove the unused parent_node() macro 2017-09-06 17:27:24 -07:00
block Char/Misc drivers for 4.14-rc1 2017-09-05 11:08:17 -07:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto crypto: algif_skcipher - only call put_page on referenced and used pages 2017-08-22 14:45:48 +08:00
Documentation fscache: remove unused ->now_uncached callback 2017-09-06 17:27:26 -07:00
drivers zram: add config and doc file for writeback feature 2017-09-06 17:27:25 -07:00
firmware firmware/Makefile: force recompilation if makefile changes 2017-05-08 17:15:10 -07:00
fs mm: remove nr_pages argument from pagevec_lookup{,_range}() 2017-09-06 17:27:27 -07:00
include mm: remove nr_pages argument from pagevec_lookup{,_range}() 2017-09-06 17:27:27 -07:00
init mm, memory_hotplug: drop zone from build_all_zonelists 2017-09-06 17:27:25 -07:00
ipc Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu 2017-08-21 09:45:19 +02:00
kernel Device properties framework updates for v4.14-rc1 2017-09-05 12:50:00 -07:00
lib Driver core update for 4.14-rc1 2017-09-05 10:41:21 -07:00
mm mm, memcg: reset memory.low during memcg offlining 2017-09-06 17:27:27 -07:00
net Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid 2017-09-05 11:54:41 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: fix bpf tunnel cleanup 2017-07-31 22:02:47 -07:00
scripts modpost: simplify sec_name() 2017-09-06 17:27:24 -07:00
security Now that IPC and other changes have landed, enable manual markings for 2017-07-19 08:55:18 -07:00
sound Merge branch 'parisc-4.14-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux 2017-09-05 09:37:11 -07:00
tools ACPI updates for v4.14-rc1 2017-09-05 12:45:03 -07:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt KVM: update to new mmu_notifier semantic v2 2017-08-31 16:13:00 -07:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap power supply and reset changes for the v4.12 series (part 2) 2017-05-12 12:02:21 -07:00
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CREDITS avr32: remove support for AVR32 architecture 2017-05-01 09:27:15 +02:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS ACPI updates for v4.14-rc1 2017-09-05 12:45:03 -07:00
Makefile Merge branch 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux 2017-09-03 21:07:29 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.