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Michal Hocko 4597648fdd mm, memcg: reconsider kmem.limit_in_bytes deprecation
This reverts commits 86327e8eb9 ("memcg: drop kmem.limit_in_bytes") and
partially reverts 58056f7750 ("memcg, kmem: further deprecate
kmem.limit_in_bytes") which have incrementally removed support for the
kernel memory accounting hard limit.  Unfortunately it has turned out that
there is still userspace depending on the existence of
memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes [1].  The underlying functionality is not
really required but the non-existent file just confuses the userspace
which fails in the result.  The patch to fix this on the userspace side
has been submitted but it is hard to predict how it will propagate through
the maze of 3rd party consumers of the software.

Now, reverting alone 86327e8eb9 is not an option because there is
another set of userspace which cannot cope with ENOTSUPP returned when
writing to the file.  Therefore we have to go and revisit 58056f7750 as
well.  There are two ways to go ahead.  Either we give up on the
deprecation and fully revert 58056f7750 as well or we can keep
kmem.limit_in_bytes but make the write a noop and warn about the fact. 
This should work for both known breaking workloads which depend on the
existence but do not depend on the hard limit enforcement.

Note to backporters to stable trees.  a8c49af3be ("memcg: add per-memcg
total kernel memory stat") introduced in 4.18 has added memcg_account_kmem
so the accounting is not done by obj_cgroup_charge_pages directly for v1
anymore.  Prior kernels need to add it explicitly (thanks to Johannes for
pointing this out).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build - remove unused local]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230920081101.GA12096@linuxonhyperv3.guj3yctzbm1etfxqx2vob5hsef.xx.internal.cloudapp.net [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZRE5VJozPZt9bRPy@dhcp22.suse.cz
Fixes: 86327e8eb9 ("memcg: drop kmem.limit_in_bytes")
Fixes: 58056f7750 ("memcg, kmem: further deprecate kmem.limit_in_bytes")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jeremi Piotrowski <jpiotrowski@linux.microsoft.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Tejun heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-09-29 17:20:47 -07:00
arch arm64: hugetlb: fix set_huge_pte_at() to work with all swap entries 2023-09-29 17:20:47 -07:00
block blk-mq: fix tags UAF when shrinking q->nr_hw_queues 2023-09-11 16:17:34 -06:00
certs certs: Reference revocation list for all keyrings 2023-08-17 20:12:41 +00:00
crypto This update includes the following changes: 2023-08-29 11:23:29 -07:00
Documentation mm, memcg: reconsider kmem.limit_in_bytes deprecation 2023-09-29 17:20:47 -07:00
drivers SCSI fixes on 20230916 2023-09-16 11:54:48 -07:00
fs nilfs2: fix potential use after free in nilfs_gccache_submit_read_data() 2023-09-29 17:20:46 -07:00
include mm: hugetlb: add huge page size param to set_huge_pte_at() 2023-09-29 17:20:47 -07:00
init workqueue: Changes for v6.6 2023-09-01 16:06:32 -07:00
io_uring io_uring/net: fix iter retargeting for selected buf 2023-09-14 10:12:55 -06:00
ipc Add x86 shadow stack support 2023-08-31 12:20:12 -07:00
kernel pidfd: prevent a kernel-doc warning 2023-09-19 13:21:33 -07:00
lib maple_tree: add MAS_UNDERFLOW and MAS_OVERFLOW states 2023-09-29 17:20:46 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm, memcg: reconsider kmem.limit_in_bytes deprecation 2023-09-29 17:20:47 -07:00
net kcm: Fix error handling for SOCK_DGRAM in kcm_sendmsg(). 2023-09-14 10:43:51 +02:00
rust Documentation work keeps chugging along; stuff for 6.6 includes: 2023-08-30 20:05:42 -07:00
samples VFIO updates for v6.6-rc1 2023-08-30 20:36:01 -07:00
scripts revert "scripts/gdb/symbols: add specific ko module load command" 2023-09-19 13:21:33 -07:00
security selinux: fix handling of empty opts in selinux_fs_context_submount() 2023-09-12 17:31:08 -04:00
sound sound fixes for 6.6-rc1 2023-09-08 13:07:50 -07:00
tools selftests/proc: fixup proc-empty-vm test after KSM changes 2023-09-19 13:21:33 -07:00
usr initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP 2023-06-06 17:54:49 +09:00
virt ARM: 2023-09-07 13:52:20 -07:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: rename binkernel.spec to kernel.spec 2023-07-25 00:59:33 +09:00
.mailmap for-linus-2023083101 2023-09-01 12:31:44 -07:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS USB: Remove Wireless USB and UWB documentation 2023-08-09 14:17:32 +02:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS This pull-request renames the genpd subsystem to pmdomain. 2023-09-13 14:18:19 -07:00
Makefile Linux 6.6-rc2 2023-09-17 14:40:24 -07:00
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