A cgroup can consume resources even after being deleted by a user.
For example, writing back dirty pages should be accounted and
limited, despite the corresponding cgroup might contain no processes
and being deleted by a user.
In the current implementation a cgroup can remain in such "dying" state
for an undefined amount of time. For instance, if a memory cgroup
contains a pge, mlocked by a process belonging to an other cgroup.
Although the lifecycle of a dying cgroup is out of user's control,
it's important to have some insight of what's going on under the hood.
In particular, it's handy to have a counter which will allow
to detect css leaks.
To solve this problem, add a cgroup.stat interface to
the base cgroup control files with the following metrics:
nr_descendants total number of visible descendant cgroups
nr_dying_descendants total number of dying descendant cgroups
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Creating cgroup hierearchies of unreasonable size can affect
overall system performance. A user might want to limit the
size of cgroup hierarchy. This is especially important if a user
is delegating some cgroup sub-tree.
To address this issue, introduce an ability to control
the size of cgroup hierarchy.
The cgroup.max.descendants control file allows to set the maximum
allowed number of descendant cgroups.
The cgroup.max.depth file controls the maximum depth of the cgroup
tree. Both are single value r/w files, with "max" default value.
The control files exist on each hierarchy level (including root).
When a new cgroup is created, we check the total descendants
and depth limits on each level, and if none of them are exceeded,
a new cgroup is created.
Only alive cgroups are counted, removed (dying) cgroups are
ignored.
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
cgroup_enable_threaded() checks that the cgroup doesn't have any tasks
or children and fails the operation if so. This test is unnecessary
because the first part is already checked by
cgroup_can_be_thread_root() and the latter is unnecessary. The latter
actually cause a behavioral oddity. Please consider the following
hierarchy. All cgroups are domains.
A
/ \
B C
\
D
If B is made threaded, C and D becomes invalid domains. Due to the no
children restriction, threaded mode can't be enabled on C. For C and
D, the only thing the user can do is removal.
There is no reason for this restriction. Remove it.
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
This patch implements cgroup v2 thread support. The goal of the
thread mode is supporting hierarchical accounting and control at
thread granularity while staying inside the resource domain model
which allows coordination across different resource controllers and
handling of anonymous resource consumptions.
A cgroup is always created as a domain and can be made threaded by
writing to the "cgroup.type" file. When a cgroup becomes threaded, it
becomes a member of a threaded subtree which is anchored at the
closest ancestor which isn't threaded.
The threads of the processes which are in a threaded subtree can be
placed anywhere without being restricted by process granularity or
no-internal-process constraint. Note that the threads aren't allowed
to escape to a different threaded subtree. To be used inside a
threaded subtree, a controller should explicitly support threaded mode
and be able to handle internal competition in the way which is
appropriate for the resource.
The root of a threaded subtree, the nearest ancestor which isn't
threaded, is called the threaded domain and serves as the resource
domain for the whole subtree. This is the last cgroup where domain
controllers are operational and where all the domain-level resource
consumptions in the subtree are accounted. This allows threaded
controllers to operate at thread granularity when requested while
staying inside the scope of system-level resource distribution.
As the root cgroup is exempt from the no-internal-process constraint,
it can serve as both a threaded domain and a parent to normal cgroups,
so, unlike non-root cgroups, the root cgroup can have both domain and
threaded children.
Internally, in a threaded subtree, each css_set has its ->dom_cset
pointing to a matching css_set which belongs to the threaded domain.
This ensures that thread root level cgroup_subsys_state for all
threaded controllers are readily accessible for domain-level
operations.
This patch enables threaded mode for the pids and perf_events
controllers. Neither has to worry about domain-level resource
consumptions and it's enough to simply set the flag.
For more details on the interface and behavior of the thread mode,
please refer to the section 2-2-2 in Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt added
by this patch.
v5: - Dropped silly no-op ->dom_cgrp init from cgroup_create().
Spotted by Waiman.
- Documentation updated as suggested by Waiman.
- cgroup.type content slightly reformatted.
- Mark the debug controller threaded.
v4: - Updated to the general idea of marking specific cgroups
domain/threaded as suggested by PeterZ.
v3: - Dropped "join" and always make mixed children join the parent's
threaded subtree.
v2: - After discussions with Waiman, support for mixed thread mode is
added. This should address the issue that Peter pointed out
where any nesting should be avoided for thread subtrees while
coexisting with other domain cgroups.
- Enabling / disabling thread mode now piggy backs on the existing
control mask update mechanism.
- Bug fixes and cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
576dd46450 ("cgroup: drop the matching uid requirement on migration
for cgroup v2") dropped the uid match requirement from "cgroup.procs"
perm check but forgot to update the matching entry in the
documentation. Update it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Each text file under Documentation follows a different
format. Some doesn't even have titles!
Change its representation to follow the adopted standard,
using ReST markups for it to be parseable by Sphinx:
- Comment the internal index;
- Use :Date: and :Author: for authorship;
- Mark titles;
- Mark literal blocks;
- Adjust witespaces;
- Mark notes;
- Use table notation for the existing tables.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Show count of oom killer invocations in /proc/vmstat and count of
processes killed in memory cgroup in knob "memory.events" (in
memory.oom_control for v1 cgroup).
Also describe difference between "oom" and "oom_kill" in memory cgroup
documentation. Currently oom in memory cgroup kills tasks iff shortage
has happened inside page fault.
These counters helps in monitoring oom kills - for now the only way is
grepping for magic words in kernel log.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix for mem_cgroup_count_vm_event() rename]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, per Konstantin]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/149570810989.203600.9492483715840752937.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Roman Guschin <guroan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Track the following reclaim counters for every memory cgroup: PGREFILL,
PGSCAN, PGSTEAL, PGACTIVATE, PGDEACTIVATE, PGLAZYFREE and PGLAZYFREED.
These values are exposed using the memory.stats interface of cgroup v2.
The meaning of each value is the same as for global counters, available
using /proc/vmstat.
Also, for consistency, rename mem_cgroup_count_vm_event() to
count_memcg_event_mm().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1494530183-30808-1-git-send-email-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, cgroup only supports delegation to !root users and cgroup
namespaces don't get any special treatments. This limits the
usefulness of cgroup namespaces as they by themselves can't be safe
delegation boundaries. A process inside a cgroup can change the
resource control knobs of the parent in the namespace root and may
move processes in and out of the namespace if cgroups outside its
namespace are visible somehow.
This patch adds a new mount option "nsdelegate" which makes cgroup
namespaces delegation boundaries. If set, cgroup behaves as if write
permission based delegation took place at namespace boundaries -
writes to the resource control knobs from the namespace root are
denied and migration crossing the namespace boundary aren't allowed
from inside the namespace.
This allows cgroup namespace to function as a delegation boundary by
itself.
v2: Silently ignore nsdelegate specified on !init mounts.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Aravind Anbudurai <aru7@fb.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
"cgroup.subtree_control" determines which resource types a cgroup
wants to control. Unlike actual resource knobs, this is an attribute
which belongs to the cgroup itself instead of its parent and thus
should be writeable by the delegatee in a delegated cgroup.
Update delegation documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Commit 4b4cea91691d ("mm: vmscan: fix IO/refault regression in cache
workingset transition") introduced three new entries in memory stat
file:
- workingset_refault
- workingset_activate
- workingset_nodereclaim
This commit adds a corresponding description to the cgroup v2 docs.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1494530293-31236-1-git-send-email-guro@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cgroups currently don't report how much shmem they use, which can be
useful data to have, in particular since shmem is included in the
cache/file item while being reclaimed like anonymous memory.
Add a counter to track shmem pages during charging and uncharging.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170221164343.32252-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Reported-by: Chris Down <cdown@fb.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Follow the common documentation style in the file and indent the
interface file description by a tab instead of just a space.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Merge in to resolve conflicts in Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt. The
conflicts are from multiple section additions and trivial to resolve.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Along with the write access to the cgroup.procs or tasks file, cgroup
has required the writer's euid, unless root, to match [s]uid of the
target process or task. On cgroup v1, this is necessary because
there's nothing preventing a delegatee from pulling in tasks or
processes from all over the system.
If a user has a cgroup subdirectory delegated to it, the user would
have write access to the cgroup.procs or tasks file. If there are no
further checks than file write access check, the user would be able to
pull processes from all over the system into its subhierarchy which is
clearly not the intended behavior. The matching [s]uid requirement
partially prevents this problem by allowing a delegatee to pull in the
processes that belongs to it. This isn't a sufficient protection
however, because a user would still be able to jump processes across
two disjoint sub-hierarchies that has been delegated to them.
cgroup v2 resolves the issue by requiring the writer to have access to
the common ancestor of the cgroup.procs file of the source and target
cgroups. This confines each delegatee to their own sub-hierarchy
proper and bases all permission decisions on the cgroup filesystem
rather than having to pull in explicit uid matching.
cgroup v2 has still been applying the matching [s]uid requirement just
for historical reasons. On cgroup2, the requirement doesn't serve any
purpose while unnecessarily complicating the permission model. Let's
drop it.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
perf_event is a utility controller whose primary role is identifying
cgroup membership to filter perf events; however, because it also
tracks some per-css state, it can't be replaced by pure cgroup
membership test. Mark the controller as implicitly enabled on the
default hierarchy so that perf events can always be filtered based on
cgroup v2 path as long as the controller is not mounted on a legacy
hierarchy.
"perf record" is updated accordingly so that it searches for both v1
and v2 hierarchies. A v1 hierarchy is used if perf_event is mounted
on it; otherwise, it uses the v2 hierarchy.
v2: Doc updated to reflect more flexible rebinding behavior.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Added documentation for v1 and v2 version describing high
level design and usage examples on using rdma controller.
Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <pandit.parav@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Pull cgroup namespace support from Tejun Heo:
"These are changes to implement namespace support for cgroup which has
been pending for quite some time now. It is very straight-forward and
only affects what part of cgroup hierarchies are visible.
After unsharing, mounting a cgroup fs will be scoped to the cgroups
the task belonged to at the time of unsharing and the cgroup paths
exposed to userland would be adjusted accordingly"
* 'for-4.6-ns' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
cgroup: fix and restructure error handling in copy_cgroup_ns()
cgroup: fix alloc_cgroup_ns() error handling in copy_cgroup_ns()
Add FS_USERNS_FLAG to cgroup fs
cgroup: Add documentation for cgroup namespaces
cgroup: mount cgroupns-root when inside non-init cgroupns
kernfs: define kernfs_node_dentry
cgroup: cgroup namespace setns support
cgroup: introduce cgroup namespaces
sched: new clone flag CLONE_NEWCGROUP for cgroup namespace
kernfs: Add API to generate relative kernfs path
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
"cgroup changes for v4.6-rc1. No userland visible behavior changes in
this pull request. I'll send out a separate pull request for the
addition of cgroup namespace support.
- The biggest change is the revamping of cgroup core task migration
and controller handling logic. There are quite a few places where
controllers and tasks are manipulated. Previously, many of those
places implemented custom operations for each specific use case
assuming specific starting conditions. While this worked, it makes
the code fragile and difficult to follow.
The bulk of this pull request restructures these operations so that
most related operations are performed through common helpers which
implement recursive (subtrees are always processed consistently)
and idempotent (they make cgroup hierarchy converge to the target
state rather than performing operations assuming specific starting
conditions). This makes the code a lot easier to understand,
verify and extend.
- Implicit controller support is added. This is primarily for using
perf_event on the v2 hierarchy so that perf can match cgroup v2
path without requiring the user to do anything special. The kernel
portion of perf_event changes is acked but userland changes are
still pending review.
- cgroup_no_v1= boot parameter added to ease testing cgroup v2 in
certain environments.
- There is a regression introduced during v4.4 devel cycle where
attempts to migrate zombie tasks can mess up internal object
management. This was fixed earlier this week and included in this
pull request w/ stable cc'd.
- Misc non-critical fixes and improvements"
* 'for-4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (44 commits)
cgroup: avoid false positive gcc-6 warning
cgroup: ignore css_sets associated with dead cgroups during migration
Documentation: cgroup v2: Trivial heading correction.
cgroup: implement cgroup_subsys->implicit_on_dfl
cgroup: use css_set->mg_dst_cgrp for the migration target cgroup
cgroup: make cgroup[_taskset]_migrate() take cgroup_root instead of cgroup
cgroup: move migration destination verification out of cgroup_migrate_prepare_dst()
cgroup: fix incorrect destination cgroup in cgroup_update_dfl_csses()
cgroup: Trivial correction to reflect controller.
cgroup: remove stale item in cgroup-v1 document INDEX file.
cgroup: update css iteration in cgroup_update_dfl_csses()
cgroup: allocate 2x cgrp_cset_links when setting up a new root
cgroup: make cgroup_calc_subtree_ss_mask() take @this_ss_mask
cgroup: reimplement rebind_subsystems() using cgroup_apply_control() and friends
cgroup: use cgroup_apply_enable_control() in cgroup creation path
cgroup: combine cgroup_mutex locking and offline css draining
cgroup: factor out cgroup_{apply|finalize}_control() from cgroup_subtree_control_write()
cgroup: introduce cgroup_{save|propagate|restore}_control()
cgroup: make cgroup_drain_offline() and cgroup_apply_control_{disable|enable}() recursive
cgroup: factor out cgroup_apply_control_enable() from cgroup_subtree_control_write()
...
Setting the original memory.limit_in_bytes hardlimit is subject to a
race condition when the desired value is below the current usage. The
code tries a few times to first reclaim and then see if the usage has
dropped to where we would like it to be, but there is no locking, and
the workload is free to continue making new charges up to the old limit.
Thus, attempting to shrink a workload relies on pure luck and hope that
the workload happens to cooperate.
To fix this in the cgroup2 memory.max knob, do it the other way round:
set the limit first, then try enforcement. And if reclaim is not able
to succeed, trigger OOM kills in the group. Keep going until the new
limit is met, we run out of OOM victims and there's only unreclaimable
memory left, or the task writing to memory.max is killed. This allows
users to shrink groups reliably, and the behavior is consistent with
what happens when new charges are attempted in excess of memory.max.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Show how much memory is allocated to kernel stacks.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Show how much memory is used for storing reclaimable and unreclaimable
in-kernel data structures allocated from slab caches.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add cgroup_no_v1= to kernel-parameters.txt, and a small blurb to
cgroup-v2.txt section about transitioning from cgroup to cgroup2.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
- The destruction path of cgroup objects are asynchronous and
multi-staged and some of them ended up destroying parents before
children leading to failures in cpu and memory controllers. Ensure
that parents are always destroyed after children.
- cpuset mm node migration was performed synchronously while holding
threadgroup and cgroup mutexes and the recent threadgroup locking
update resulted in a possible deadlock. The migration is best effort
and shouldn't have been performed under those locks to begin with.
Made asynchronous.
- Minor documentation fix.
* 'for-4.5-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
Documentation: cgroup: Fix 'cgroup-legacy' -> 'cgroup-v1'
cgroup: make sure a parent css isn't freed before its children
cgroup: make sure a parent css isn't offlined before its children
cpuset: make mm migration asynchronous
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This should have happened in 6255c46f (cgroup: rename cgroup
documentations, 2016-01-11).
Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Provide a cgroup2 memory.stat that provides statistics on LRU memory
and fault event counters. More consumers and breakdowns will follow.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The rationale of separate swap counter is given by Johannes Weiner.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
cgroup-legacy may be too loaded. Rename the docs so that they're
postfixed with v1 and v2.
* s/cgroup-legacy/cgroup-v1/
* s/cgroup.txt/cgroup-v2.txt/
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
