Re: [PATCH mmotm 1/2] memcg: add interface to reset limits

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Tue Jun 02 2009 - 23:55:50 EST


On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 11:49:08 +0900
Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Setting mem.limit or memsw.limit to 0 has no meaning
> in actual use(no process can run in such condition).
>
> We don't have interface to reset mem.limit or memsw.limit now,
> so let's reset the mem.limit or memsw.limit to default(unlimited)
> when they are being set to 0.
>
Maybe good. But when I proposed this kind of patch, it was rejected.
(try to add RES_ININITY)

please wait acks from others.
But from me,
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt | 1 +
> include/linux/res_counter.h | 2 ++
> kernel/res_counter.c | 2 +-
> mm/memcontrol.c | 2 ++
> 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
> index 1a60887..e1c69f3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
> @@ -204,6 +204,7 @@ We can alter the memory limit:
>
> NOTE: We can use a suffix (k, K, m, M, g or G) to indicate values in kilo,
> mega or gigabytes.
> +NOTE: We can write "0" to reset the *.limit_in_bytes(unlimited).
>
> # cat /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes
> 4194304
> diff --git a/include/linux/res_counter.h b/include/linux/res_counter.h
> index 4c5bcf6..511f42f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/res_counter.h
> +++ b/include/linux/res_counter.h
> @@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ struct res_counter {
> struct res_counter *parent;
> };
>
> +#define RESOURCE_MAX (unsigned long long)LLONG_MAX
> +
> /**
> * Helpers to interact with userspace
> * res_counter_read_u64() - returns the value of the specified member.
> diff --git a/kernel/res_counter.c b/kernel/res_counter.c
> index bf8e753..0a45778 100644
> --- a/kernel/res_counter.c
> +++ b/kernel/res_counter.c
> @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
> void res_counter_init(struct res_counter *counter, struct res_counter *parent)
> {
> spin_lock_init(&counter->lock);
> - counter->limit = (unsigned long long)LLONG_MAX;
> + counter->limit = RESOURCE_MAX;
> counter->parent = parent;
> }
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index a83e039..6629ed2 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -2040,6 +2040,8 @@ static int mem_cgroup_write(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft,
> ret = res_counter_memparse_write_strategy(buffer, &val);
> if (ret)
> break;
> + if (!val)
> + val = RESOURCE_MAX;
> if (type == _MEM)
> ret = mem_cgroup_resize_limit(memcg, val);
> else
>

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