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memcg: drop kmem.limit_in_bytes

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kmem.limit_in_bytes (v1 way to limit kernel memory usage) has been
deprecated since 58056f7750 ("memcg, kmem: further deprecate
kmem.limit_in_bytes") merged in 5.16.  We haven't heard about any serious
users since then but it seems that the mere presence of the file is
causing more harm thatn good.  We (SUSE) have had several bug reports from
customers where Docker based containers started to fail because a write to
kmem.limit_in_bytes has failed.

This was unexpected because runc code only expects ENOENT (kmem disabled)
or EBUSY (tasks already running within cgroup).  So a new error code was
unexpected and the whole container startup failed.  This has been later
addressed by
52390d6804
so current Docker runtimes do not suffer from the problem anymore.  There
are still older version of Docker in use and likely hard to get rid of
completely.

Address this by wiping out the file completely and effectively get back to
pre 4.5 era and CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM=n configuration.

I would recommend backporting to stable trees which have picked up
58056f7750 ("memcg, kmem: further deprecate kmem.limit_in_bytes").

[mhocko@suse.com: restore _KMEM switch case]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZKe5wxdbvPi5Cwd7@dhcp22.suse.cz
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230704115240.14672-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Michal Hocko 2023-07-04 13:52:40 +02:00 committed by Andrew Morton
parent 82d9b8c85b
commit 86327e8eb9
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Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
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@ -92,8 +92,6 @@ Brief summary of control files.
memory.oom_control set/show oom controls.
memory.numa_stat show the number of memory usage per numa
node
memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes This knob is deprecated and writing to
it will return -ENOTSUPP.
memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes show current kernel memory allocation
memory.kmem.failcnt show the number of kernel memory usage
hits limits

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mm/memcontrol.c
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@ -3871,10 +3871,6 @@ static ssize_t mem_cgroup_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
case _MEMSWAP:
ret = mem_cgroup_resize_max(memcg, nr_pages, true);
break;
case _KMEM:
/* kmem.limit_in_bytes is deprecated. */
ret = -EOPNOTSUPP;
break;
case _TCP:
ret = memcg_update_tcp_max(memcg, nr_pages);
break;
@ -5085,12 +5081,6 @@ static struct cftype mem_cgroup_legacy_files[] = {
.seq_show = memcg_numa_stat_show,
},
#endif
{
.name = "kmem.limit_in_bytes",
.private = MEMFILE_PRIVATE(_KMEM, RES_LIMIT),
.write = mem_cgroup_write,
.read_u64 = mem_cgroup_read_u64,
},
{
.name = "kmem.usage_in_bytes",
.private = MEMFILE_PRIVATE(_KMEM, RES_USAGE),