Re: [PATCH 2.6.32] memcg: warn on deeper hierarchies withuse_hierarchy==0

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Michal Hocko wrote:

> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index f99f599..b61c34b 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -3106,6 +3106,11 @@ mem_cgroup_create(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cont)
>  	} else {
>  		parent = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cont->parent);
>  		mem->use_hierarchy = parent->use_hierarchy;
> +		WARN_ONCE(!mem->use_hierarchy && parent != root_mem_cgroup,
> +				"Creating hierarchies with use_hierarchy==0 "
> +				"(flat hierarchy) is considered deprecated. "
> +				"If you believe that your setup is correct, "
> +				"we kindly ask you to contact linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx and let us know");

When I deprecated /proc/pid/oom_adj (now removed), we did a WARN_ONCE() 
and others complained that this unnecessarily alters userspace scripts 
that a serious issue has occurred and Linus agreed that we shouldn't do 
deprecation in this way.  The alternative is to use printk_once() instead.

This applies to all three patches for this one, 3.0, and 3.2+.
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