linux-toradex.git/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst, branch v5.0-rc6

Merge branch 'for-4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2018-12-29T18:57:20+00:00

Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - Waiman's cgroup2 cpuset support has been finally merged closing one
   of the last remaining feature gaps.

 - cgroup.procs could show non-leader threads when cgroup2 threaded mode
   was used in certain ways. I forgot to push the fix during the last
   cycle.

 - A patch to fix mount option parsing when all mount options have been
   consumed by someone else (LSM).

 - cgroup_no_v1 boot param can now block named cgroup1 hierarchies too.

* 'for-4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup: Add named hierarchy disabling to cgroup_no_v1 boot param
  cgroup: fix parsing empty mount option string
  cpuset: Remove set but not used variable 'cs'
  cgroup: fix CSS_TASK_ITER_PROCS
  cgroup: Add .__DEBUG__. prefix to debug file names
  cpuset: Minor cgroup2 interface updates
  cpuset: Expose cpuset.cpus.subpartitions with cgroup_debug
  cpuset: Add documentation about the new "cpuset.sched.partition" flag
  cpuset: Use descriptive text when reading/writing cpuset.sched.partition
  cpuset: Expose cpus.effective and mems.effective on cgroup v2 root
  cpuset: Make generate_sched_domains() work with partition
  cpuset: Make CPU hotplug work with partition
  cpuset: Track cpusets that use parent's effective_cpus
  cpuset: Add an error state to cpuset.sched.partition
  cpuset: Add new v2 cpuset.sched.partition flag
  cpuset: Simply allocation and freeing of cpumasks
  cpuset: Define data structures to support scheduling partition
  cpuset: Enable cpuset controller in default hierarchy
  cgroup: remove unnecessary unlikely()

blkcg: associate writeback bios with a blkg

2018-12-08T05:26:37+00:00

One of the goals of this series is to remove a separate reference to
the css of the bio. This can and should be accessed via bio_blkcg(). In
this patch, wbc_init_bio() now requires a bio to have a device
associated with it.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou 
Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

cpuset: Minor cgroup2 interface updates

2018-11-13T20:09:48+00:00

* Rename the partition file from "cpuset.sched.partition" to
  "cpuset.cpus.partition".

* When writing to the partition file, drop "0" and "1" and only accept
  "member" and "root".

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Cc: Waiman Long

cpuset: Add documentation about the new "cpuset.sched.partition" flag

2018-11-08T20:27:32+00:00

The cgroup-v2.rst file is updated to document the purpose of the new
"cpuset.sched.partition" flag and how its usage.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

cpuset: Expose cpus.effective and mems.effective on cgroup v2 root

2018-11-08T20:27:31+00:00

Because of the fact that setting the "cpuset.sched.partition" in
a direct child of root can remove CPUs from the root's effective CPU
list, it makes sense to know what CPUs are left in the root cgroup for
scheduling purpose. So the "cpuset.cpus.effective" control file is now
exposed in the v2 cgroup root.

For consistency, the "cpuset.mems.effective" control file is exposed
as well.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

cpuset: Enable cpuset controller in default hierarchy

2018-11-08T20:27:27+00:00

Given the fact that thread mode had been merged into 4.14, it is now
time to enable cpuset to be used in the default hierarchy (cgroup v2)
as it is clearly threaded.

The cpuset controller had experienced feature creep since its
introduction more than a decade ago. Besides the core cpus and mems
control files to limit cpus and memory nodes, there are a bunch of
additional features that can be controlled from the userspace. Some of
the features are of doubtful usefulness and may not be actively used.

This patch enables cpuset controller in the default hierarchy with
a minimal set of features, namely just the cpus and mems and their
effective_* counterparts.  We can certainly add more features to the
default hierarchy in the future if there is a real user need for them
later on.

Alternatively, with the unified hiearachy, it may make more sense
to move some of those additional cpuset features, if desired, to
memory controller or may be to the cpu controller instead of staying
with cpuset.

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

Merge tag 'for-linus-20181102' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2018-11-02T18:25:48+00:00

Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "The biggest part of this pull request is the revert of the blkcg
  cleanup series. It had one fix earlier for a stacked device issue, but
  another one was reported. Rather than play whack-a-mole with this,
  revert the entire series and try again for the next kernel release.

  Apart from that, only small fixes/changes.

  Summary:

   - Indentation fixup for mtip32xx (Colin Ian King)

   - The blkcg cleanup series revert (Dennis Zhou)

   - Two NVMe fixes. One fixing a regression in the nvme request
     initialization in this merge window, causing nvme-fc to not work.
     The other is a suspend/resume p2p resource issue (James, Keith)

   - Fix sg discard merge, allowing us to merge in cases where we didn't
     before (Jianchao Wang)

   - Call rq_qos_exit() after the queue is frozen, preventing a hang
     (Ming)

   - Fix brd queue setup, fixing an oops if we fail setting up all
     devices (Ming)"

* tag 'for-linus-20181102' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  nvme-pci: fix conflicting p2p resource adds
  nvme-fc: fix request private initialization
  blkcg: revert blkcg cleanups series
  block: brd: associate with queue until adding disk
  block: call rq_qos_exit() after queue is frozen
  mtip32xx: clean an indentation issue, remove extraneous tabs
  block: fix the DISCARD request merge

blkcg: revert blkcg cleanups series

2018-11-02T01:59:53+00:00

This reverts a series committed earlier due to null pointer exception
bug report in [1]. It seems there are edge case interactions that I did
not consider and will need some time to understand what causes the
adverse interactions.

The original series can be found in [2] with a follow up series in [3].

[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/cgroups/msg20719.html
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20180911184137.35897-1-dennisszhou@gmail.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181020185612.51587-1-dennis@kernel.org/

This reverts the following commits:
d459d853c2ed, b2c3fa546705, 101246ec02b5, b3b9f24f5fcc, e2b0989954ae,
f0fcb3ec89f3, c839e7a03f92, bdc2491708c4, 74b7c02a9bc1, 5bf9a1f3b4ef,
a7b39b4e961c, 07b05bcc3213, 49f4c2dc2b50, 27e6fa996c53

Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

mm: don't raise MEMCG_OOM event due to failed high-order allocation

2018-10-26T23:38:14+00:00

It was reported that on some of our machines containers were restarted
with OOM symptoms without an obvious reason.  Despite there were almost no
memory pressure and plenty of page cache, MEMCG_OOM event was raised
occasionally, causing the container management software to think, that OOM
has happened.  However, no tasks have been killed.

The following investigation showed that the problem is caused by a failing
attempt to charge a high-order page.  In such case, the OOM killer is
never invoked.  As shown below, it can happen under conditions, which are
very far from a real OOM: e.g.  there is plenty of clean page cache and no
memory pressure.

There is no sense in raising an OOM event in this case, as it might
confuse a user and lead to wrong and excessive actions (e.g.  restart the
workload, as in my case).

Let's look at the charging path in try_charge().  If the memory usage is
about memory.max, which is absolutely natural for most memory cgroups, we
try to reclaim some pages.  Even if we were able to reclaim enough memory
for the allocation, the following check can fail due to a race with
another concurrent allocation:

    if (mem_cgroup_margin(mem_over_limit) >= nr_pages)
        goto retry;

For regular pages the following condition will save us from triggering
the OOM:

   if (nr_reclaimed && nr_pages <= (1 << PAGE_ALLOC_COSTLY_ORDER))
       goto retry;

But for high-order allocation this condition will intentionally fail.  The
reason behind is that we'll likely fall to regular pages anyway, so it's
ok and even preferred to return ENOMEM.

In this case the idea of raising MEMCG_OOM looks dubious.

Fix this by moving MEMCG_OOM raising to mem_cgroup_oom() after allocation
order check, so that the event won't be raised for high order allocations.
This change doesn't affect regular pages allocation and charging.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181004214050.7417-1-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin 
Acked-by: David Rientjes 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Vladimir Davydov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

psi: cgroup support

2018-10-26T23:26:32+00:00

On a system that executes multiple cgrouped jobs and independent
workloads, we don't just care about the health of the overall system, but
also that of individual jobs, so that we can ensure individual job health,
fairness between jobs, or prioritize some jobs over others.

This patch implements pressure stall tracking for cgroups.  In kernels
with CONFIG_PSI=y, cgroup2 groups will have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure,
and io.pressure files that track aggregate pressure stall times for only
the tasks inside the cgroup.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828172258.3185-10-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) 
Tested-by: Daniel Drake 
Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Cc: Christopher Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Enderborg 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Shakeel Butt 
Cc: Vinayak Menon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds