mm: memcg/slab: deprecate memory.kmem.slabinfo
authorRoman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Fri, 7 Aug 2020 06:21:03 +0000 (23:21 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 7 Aug 2020 18:33:24 +0000 (11:33 -0700)
commit4330a26bc4527f1d8918c398ebc983574f761cca
treee6798292398edc018c379bde258024f4b48264f4
parentf2fe7b09a52bc898ec030d4fa6f78725439c7c2c
mm: memcg/slab: deprecate memory.kmem.slabinfo

Deprecate memory.kmem.slabinfo.

An empty file will be presented if corresponding config options are
enabled.

The interface is implementation dependent, isn't present in cgroup v2, and
is generally useful only for core mm debugging purposes.  In other words,
it doesn't provide any value for the absolute majority of users.

A drgn-based replacement can be found in
tools/cgroup/memcg_slabinfo.py.  It does support cgroup v1 and v2,
mimics memory.kmem.slabinfo output and also allows to get any
additional information without a need to recompile the kernel.

If a drgn-based solution is too slow for a task, a bpf-based tracing tool
can be used, which can easily keep track of all slab allocations belonging
to a memory cgroup.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200623174037.3951353-11-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memcontrol.c
mm/slab_common.c