From 585e27ea6d2e71d0091443c39a00a35e6a5c5e8f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:42:30 -0700 Subject: hugetlb/cgroup: add HugeTLB controller documentation Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Hillf Danton Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/cgroups/hugetlb.txt | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/cgroups/hugetlb.txt (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/hugetlb.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/hugetlb.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a9faaca1f029 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/hugetlb.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +HugeTLB Controller +------------------- + +The HugeTLB controller 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. + +HugeTLB controller can be created by first mounting the cgroup filesystem. + +# mount -t cgroup -o hugetlb none /sys/fs/cgroup + +With the above step, the initial or the parent HugeTLB group becomes +visible at /sys/fs/cgroup. At bootup, this group includes all the tasks in +the system. /sys/fs/cgroup/tasks lists the tasks in this cgroup. + +New groups can be created under the parent group /sys/fs/cgroup. + +# cd /sys/fs/cgroup +# mkdir g1 +# echo $$ > g1/tasks + +The above steps create a new group g1 and move the current shell +process (bash) into it. + +Brief summary of control files + + hugetlb..limit_in_bytes # set/show limit of "hugepagesize" hugetlb usage + hugetlb..max_usage_in_bytes # show max "hugepagesize" hugetlb usage recorded + hugetlb..usage_in_bytes # show current res_counter usage for "hugepagesize" hugetlb + hugetlb..failcnt # show the number of allocation failure due to HugeTLB limit + +For a system supporting two hugepage size (16M and 16G) the control +files include: + +hugetlb.16GB.limit_in_bytes +hugetlb.16GB.max_usage_in_bytes +hugetlb.16GB.usage_in_bytes +hugetlb.16GB.failcnt +hugetlb.16MB.limit_in_bytes +hugetlb.16MB.max_usage_in_bytes +hugetlb.16MB.usage_in_bytes +hugetlb.16MB.failcnt -- cgit v1.2.3