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authorVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>2016-01-20 15:02:38 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-01-20 17:09:18 -0800
commit04823c833b3eaef7816e28e3727124394f6bb3c3 (patch)
tree2fd7291cb5605b74a834aa44f91a754ae860238a /Documentation
parent52c29b04823cb1bab2805336b80866325fe2bc3f (diff)
mm: memcontrol: allow to disable kmem accounting for cgroup2
Kmem accounting might incur overhead that some users can't put up with. Besides, the implementation is still considered unstable. So let's provide a way to disable it for those users who aren't happy with it. To disable kmem accounting for cgroup2, pass cgroup.memory=nokmem at boot time. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
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+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -611,6 +611,7 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
cgroup.memory= [KNL] Pass options to the cgroup memory controller.
Format: <string>
nosocket -- Disable socket memory accounting.
+ nokmem -- Disable kernel memory accounting.
checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
Format: { "0" | "1" }