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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-07-31 19:25:39 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-07-31 19:25:39 -0700
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Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)
Merge Andrew's second set of patches: - MM - a few random fixes - a couple of RTC leftovers * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (120 commits) rtc/rtc-88pm80x: remove unneed devm_kfree rtc/rtc-88pm80x: assign ret only when rtc_register_driver fails mm: hugetlbfs: close race during teardown of hugetlbfs shared page tables tmpfs: distribute interleave better across nodes mm: remove redundant initialization mm: warn if pg_data_t isn't initialized with zero mips: zero out pg_data_t when it's allocated memcg: gix memory accounting scalability in shrink_page_list mm/sparse: remove index_init_lock mm/sparse: more checks on mem_section number mm/sparse: optimize sparse_index_alloc memcg: add mem_cgroup_from_css() helper memcg: further prevent OOM with too many dirty pages memcg: prevent OOM with too many dirty pages mm: mmu_notifier: fix freed page still mapped in secondary MMU mm: memcg: only check anon swapin page charges for swap cache mm: memcg: only check swap cache pages for repeated charging mm: memcg: split swapin charge function into private and public part mm: memcg: remove needless !mm fixup to init_mm when charging mm: memcg: remove unneeded shmem charge type ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
index dd88540bb995..4372e6b8a353 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ Brief summary of control files.
memory.kmem.tcp.limit_in_bytes # set/show hard limit for tcp buf memory
memory.kmem.tcp.usage_in_bytes # show current tcp buf memory allocation
+ memory.kmem.tcp.failcnt # show the number of tcp buf memory usage hits limits
+ memory.kmem.tcp.max_usage_in_bytes # show max tcp buf memory usage recorded
1. History
@@ -187,12 +189,12 @@ the cgroup that brought it in -- this will happen on memory pressure).
But see section 8.2: when moving a task to another cgroup, its pages may
be recharged to the new cgroup, if move_charge_at_immigrate has been chosen.
-Exception: If CONFIG_CGROUP_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP is not used.
+Exception: If CONFIG_CGROUP_CGROUP_MEMCG_SWAP is not used.
When you do swapoff and make swapped-out pages of shmem(tmpfs) to
be backed into memory in force, charges for pages are accounted against the
caller of swapoff rather than the users of shmem.
-2.4 Swap Extension (CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP)
+2.4 Swap Extension (CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP)
Swap Extension allows you to record charge for swap. A swapped-in page is
charged back to original page allocator if possible.
@@ -259,7 +261,7 @@ When oom event notifier is registered, event will be delivered.
per-zone-per-cgroup LRU (cgroup's private LRU) is just guarded by
zone->lru_lock, it has no lock of its own.
-2.7 Kernel Memory Extension (CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM)
+2.7 Kernel Memory Extension (CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM)
With the Kernel memory extension, the Memory Controller is able to limit
the amount of kernel memory used by the system. Kernel memory is fundamentally
@@ -286,8 +288,8 @@ per cgroup, instead of globally.
a. Enable CONFIG_CGROUPS
b. Enable CONFIG_RESOURCE_COUNTERS
-c. Enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
-d. Enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP (to use swap extension)
+c. Enable CONFIG_MEMCG
+d. Enable CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP (to use swap extension)
1. Prepare the cgroups (see cgroups.txt, Why are cgroups needed?)
# mount -t tmpfs none /sys/fs/cgroup