Re: [PATCH 4/7] cgroup: rstat: support cgroup1

[Johannes Weiner]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 02:39:25PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 02-02-21 13:47:43, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > Rstat currently only supports the default hierarchy in cgroup2. In
> > order to replace memcg's private stats infrastructure - used in both
> > cgroup1 and cgroup2 - with rstat, the latter needs to support cgroup1.
> > 
> > The initialization and destruction callbacks for regular cgroups are
> > already in place. Remove the cgroup_on_dfl() guards to handle cgroup1.
> > 
> > The initialization of the root cgroup is currently hardcoded to only
> > handle cgrp_dfl_root.cgrp. Move those callbacks to cgroup_setup_root()
> > and cgroup_destroy_root() to handle the default root as well as the
> > various cgroup1 roots we may set up during mounting.
> > 
> > The linking of css to cgroups happens in code shared between cgroup1
> > and cgroup2 as well. Simply remove the cgroup_on_dfl() guard.
> > 
> > Linkage of the root css to the root cgroup is a bit trickier: per
> > default, the root css of a subsystem controller belongs to the default
> > hierarchy (i.e. the cgroup2 root). When a controller is mounted in its
> > cgroup1 version, the root css is stolen and moved to the cgroup1 root;
> > on unmount, the css moves back to the default hierarchy. Annotate
> > rebind_subsystems() to move the root css linkage along between roots.
> 
> I am not familiar with rstat API and from this patch it is not really
> clear to me how does it deal with memcg v1 use_hierarchy oddness.

That's gone, right?

static int mem_cgroup_hierarchy_write(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
                                      struct cftype *cft, u64 val)
{
        if (val == 1)
                return 0;

        pr_warn_once("Non-hierarchical mode is deprecated. "
                     "Please report your usecase to linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx if you "
                     "depend on this functionality.\n");

        return -EINVAL;
}