linux/mm
Roman Gushchin bf8d5d52ff memcg: introduce memory.min
Memory controller implements the memory.low best-effort memory
protection mechanism, which works perfectly in many cases and allows
protecting working sets of important workloads from sudden reclaim.

But its semantics has a significant limitation: it works only as long as
there is a supply of reclaimable memory.  This makes it pretty useless
against any sort of slow memory leaks or memory usage increases.  This
is especially true for swapless systems.  If swap is enabled, memory
soft protection effectively postpones problems, allowing a leaking
application to fill all swap area, which makes no sense.  The only
effective way to guarantee the memory protection in this case is to
invoke the OOM killer.

It's possible to handle this case in userspace by reacting on MEMCG_LOW
events; but there is still a place for a fail-safe in-kernel mechanism
to provide stronger guarantees.

This patch introduces the memory.min interface for cgroup v2 memory
controller.  It works very similarly to memory.low (sharing the same
hierarchical behavior), except that it's not disabled if there is no
more reclaimable memory in the system.

If cgroup is not populated, its memory.min is ignored, because otherwise
even the OOM killer wouldn't be able to reclaim the protected memory,
and the system can stall.

[guro@fb.com: s/low/min/ in docs]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180510130758.GA9129@castle.DHCP.thefacebook.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180509180734.GA4856@castle.DHCP.thefacebook.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: 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>
2018-06-07 17:34:36 -07:00
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kasan kasan: fix memory hotplug during boot 2018-05-25 18:12:11 -07:00
backing-dev.c memcg: writeback: use memcg->cgwb_list directly 2018-06-07 17:34:36 -07:00
balloon_compaction.c
bootmem.c
cleancache.c docs/vm: rename documentation files to .rst 2018-04-16 14:18:15 -06:00
cma_debug.c
cma.c Revert "mm/cma: manage the memory of the CMA area by using the ZONE_MOVABLE" 2018-05-24 10:07:50 -07:00
cma.h
compaction.c Revert "mm/cma: manage the memory of the CMA area by using the ZONE_MOVABLE" 2018-05-24 10:07:50 -07:00
debug_page_ref.c
debug.c
dmapool.c
early_ioremap.c
fadvise.c mm: add ksys_fadvise64_64() helper; remove in-kernel call to sys_fadvise64_64() 2018-04-02 20:16:10 +02:00
failslab.c mm: make should_failslab always available for fault injection 2018-04-05 21:36:26 -07:00
filemap.c mm/filemap.c: fix NULL pointer in page_cache_tree_insert() 2018-04-20 17:18:36 -07:00
frame_vector.c
frontswap.c docs/vm: rename documentation files to .rst 2018-04-16 14:18:15 -06:00
gup_benchmark.c mm/gup_benchmark: handle gup failures 2018-04-13 17:10:27 -07:00
gup.c mm, gup: prevent pmd checking race in follow_pmd_mask() 2018-06-07 17:34:35 -07:00
highmem.c
hmm.c Merge branch 'mm-rst' into docs-next 2018-04-16 14:25:08 -06:00
huge_memory.c There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around, 2018-06-04 12:34:27 -07:00
hugetlb_cgroup.c mm: rename page_counter's count/limit into usage/max 2018-06-07 17:34:35 -07:00
hugetlb.c Merge branch 'mm-rst' into docs-next 2018-04-16 14:25:08 -06:00
hwpoison-inject.c
init-mm.c mm: introduce arg_lock to protect arg_start|end and env_start|end in mm_struct 2018-06-07 17:34:34 -07:00
internal.h Changes for 4.18: 2018-06-05 13:24:20 -07:00
interval_tree.c
Kconfig mm: introduce ARCH_HAS_PTE_SPECIAL 2018-06-07 17:34:35 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
khugepaged.c page cache: use xa_lock 2018-04-11 10:28:39 -07:00
kmemleak-test.c
kmemleak.c mm: kernel-doc: add missing parameter descriptions 2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
ksm.c mm/ksm: move [set_]page_stable_node from ksm.h to ksm.c 2018-06-07 17:34:36 -07:00
list_lru.c mm: make counting of list_lru_one::nr_items lockless 2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
maccess.c
madvise.c
Makefile mm: restructure memfd code 2018-06-07 17:34:35 -07:00
memblock.c mm/memblock: print memblock_remove 2018-06-07 17:34:36 -07:00
memcontrol.c memcg: introduce memory.min 2018-06-07 17:34:36 -07:00
memfd.c mm: restructure memfd code 2018-06-07 17:34:35 -07:00
memory_hotplug.c mm: move is_pageblock_removable_nolock() to mm/memory_hotplug.c 2018-06-07 17:34:36 -07:00
memory-failure.c mm, migrate: remove reason argument from new_page_t 2018-04-11 10:28:32 -07:00
memory.c mm: remove odd HAVE_PTE_SPECIAL 2018-06-07 17:34:35 -07:00
mempolicy.c mm: unclutter THP migration 2018-04-11 10:28:32 -07:00
mempool.c mempool: Add mempool_init()/mempool_exit() 2018-05-14 13:14:23 -06:00
memtest.c
migrate.c mm: migrate: fix double call of radix_tree_replace_slot() 2018-05-11 17:28:45 -07:00
mincore.c
mlock.c
mm_init.c
mmap.c There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around, 2018-06-04 12:34:27 -07:00
mmu_context.c
mmu_notifier.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c sched/numa: avoid trapping faults and attempting migration of file-backed dirty pages 2018-04-11 10:28:31 -07:00
mremap.c
msync.c
nobootmem.c
nommu.c mm/nommu: remove description of alloc_vm_area 2018-04-05 21:36:26 -07:00
oom_kill.c mm: rename page_counter's count/limit into usage/max 2018-06-07 17:34:35 -07:00
page_alloc.c mm: move is_pageblock_removable_nolock() to mm/memory_hotplug.c 2018-06-07 17:34:36 -07:00
page_counter.c memcg: introduce memory.min 2018-06-07 17:34:36 -07:00
page_ext.c
page_idle.c mm: thp: fix potential clearing to referenced flag in page_idle_clear_pte_refs_one() 2018-04-05 21:36:25 -07:00
page_io.c
page_isolation.c mm, migrate: remove reason argument from new_page_t 2018-04-11 10:28:32 -07:00
page_owner.c mm/page_owner.c: make early_page_owner_param() __init 2018-04-05 21:36:26 -07:00
page_poison.c mm/page_poison.c: make early_page_poison_param() __init 2018-04-05 21:36:26 -07:00
page_vma_mapped.c
page-writeback.c writeback: safer lock nesting 2018-04-20 17:18:35 -07:00
pagewalk.c mm: kernel-doc: add missing parameter descriptions 2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
percpu-internal.h
percpu-km.c
percpu-stats.c mm: reuse DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE() macro 2018-04-05 21:36:25 -07:00
percpu-vm.c
percpu.c arch: remove obsolete architecture ports 2018-04-02 20:20:12 -07:00
pgtable-generic.c
process_vm_access.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c mm: split ->readpages calls to avoid non-contiguous pages lists 2018-06-01 18:37:32 -07:00
rmap.c Linux 4.17-rc2 2018-04-27 17:13:20 -06:00
rodata_test.c
shmem.c tmpfs: allow decoding a file handle of an unlinked file 2018-06-07 17:34:36 -07:00
slab_common.c mm: make should_failslab always available for fault injection 2018-04-05 21:36:26 -07:00
slab.c slab: __GFP_ZERO is incompatible with a constructor 2018-06-07 17:34:34 -07:00
slab.h slab, slub: skip unnecessary kasan_cache_shutdown() 2018-04-05 21:36:24 -07:00
slob.c slab: __GFP_ZERO is incompatible with a constructor 2018-06-07 17:34:34 -07:00
slub.c mm/slub: remove obsolete comment 2018-06-07 17:34:34 -07:00
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c mm/sparse.c: pass the __highest_present_section_nr + 1 to alloc_func() 2018-06-07 17:34:35 -07:00
swap_cgroup.c
swap_slots.c mm, memcontrol: move swap charge handling into get_swap_page() 2018-06-07 17:34:34 -07:00
swap_state.c mm, memcontrol: move swap charge handling into get_swap_page() 2018-06-07 17:34:34 -07:00
swap.c mm/swap.c: remove @cold parameter description for release_pages() 2018-04-05 21:36:26 -07:00
swapfile.c mm: fix nr_rotate_swap leak in swapon() error case 2018-05-25 18:12:10 -07:00
truncate.c page cache: use xa_lock 2018-04-11 10:28:39 -07:00
usercopy.c
userfaultfd.c
util.c Merge branch 'mm-rst' into docs-next 2018-04-16 14:25:08 -06:00
vmacache.c
vmalloc.c mm: vmalloc: pass proper vm_start into debugobjects 2018-06-07 17:34:35 -07:00
vmpressure.c
vmscan.c memcg: introduce memory.min 2018-06-07 17:34:36 -07:00
vmstat.c proc: introduce proc_create_seq{,_data} 2018-05-16 07:23:35 +02:00
workingset.c page cache: use xa_lock 2018-04-11 10:28:39 -07:00
z3fold.c z3fold: fix reclaim lock-ups 2018-05-11 17:28:45 -07:00
zbud.c
zpool.c
zsmalloc.c mm: kernel-doc: add missing parameter descriptions 2018-04-05 21:36:27 -07:00
zswap.c