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authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-07-31 16:42:12 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-07-31 18:42:40 -0700
commit2bc64a2046975410505bb119bba32705892b9255 (patch)
tree5cc4967a4ddee90d8efa19e9ad233ee28b946eab /init
parentc3f38a38715e9b4e7b1dda6840a1375f6894744d (diff)
downloadlinux-2bc64a2046975410505bb119bba32705892b9255.tar.bz2
mm/hugetlb: add new HugeTLB cgroup
Implement a new controller that allows us to control HugeTLB allocations. The extension allows to limit the HugeTLB usage per control group and enforces the controller limit during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The charge/uncharge calls will be added to HugeTLB code in later patch. Support for cgroup removal will be added in later patches. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/CONFIG_CGROUP_HUGETLB_RES_CTLR/CONFIG_MEMCG_HUGETLB/g] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/CONFIG_MEMCG_HUGETLB/CONFIG_CGROUP_HUGETLB/g] Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index b3f55f15e107..72437760e90e 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -751,6 +751,21 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM
the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes
will ever exhaust kernel resources alone.
+config CGROUP_HUGETLB
+ bool "HugeTLB Resource Controller for Control Groups"
+ depends on RESOURCE_COUNTERS && HUGETLB_PAGE && EXPERIMENTAL
+ default n
+ help
+ Provides a cgroup Resource Controller for HugeTLB pages.
+ When you enable this, you can put a per cgroup limit on HugeTLB usage.
+ The limit is enforced during page fault. Since HugeTLB doesn't
+ support page reclaim, enforcing the limit at page fault time implies
+ that, the application will get SIGBUS signal if it tries to access
+ HugeTLB pages beyond its limit. This requires the application to know
+ beforehand how much HugeTLB pages it would require for its use. The
+ control group is tracked in the third page lru pointer. This means
+ that we cannot use the controller with huge page less than 3 pages.
+
config CGROUP_PERF
bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring"
depends on PERF_EVENTS && CGROUPS