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						Glauber Costa
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		This patch lays down the foundation for the kernel memory component 
of the Memory Controller. 
 
As of today, I am only laying down the following files: 
 
 * memory.independent_kmem_limit 
 * memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes (currently ignored) 
 * memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes (always zero) 
 
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com> 
Reviewed-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> 
CC: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> 
CC: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> 
--- 
 Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt |   36 ++++++++++++- 
 init/Kconfig                     |   14 +++++ 
 mm/memcontrol.c                  |  107 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 
 3 files changed, 150 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) 
 
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt 
index 06eb6d9..bf00cd2 100644 
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt 
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt 
@@ -44,8 +44,9 @@ Features: 
  - oom-killer disable knob and oom-notifier 
  - Root cgroup has no limit controls. 
  
- Kernel memory and Hugepages are not under control yet. We just manage 
- pages on LRU. To add more controls, we have to take care of performance. 
+ Hugepages is not under control yet. We just manage pages on LRU. To add more 
+ controls, we have to take care of performance. Kernel memory support is work 
+ in progress, and the current version provides basically functionality. 
  
 Brief summary of control files. 
  
@@ -56,8 +57,11 @@ Brief summary of control files. 
 				 (See 5.5 for details) 
  memory.memsw.usage_in_bytes	 # show current res_counter usage for memory+Swap 
 				 (See 5.5 for details) 
+ memory.kmem.usage_in_bytes	 # show current res_counter usage for kmem only. 
+				 (See 2.7 for details) 
  memory.limit_in_bytes		 # set/show limit of memory usage 
  memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes	 # set/show limit of memory+Swap usage 
+ memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes	 # if allowed, set/show limit of kernel memory 
  memory.failcnt			 # show the number of memory usage hits limits 
  memory.memsw.failcnt		 # show the number of memory+Swap hits limits 
  memory.max_usage_in_bytes	 # show max memory usage recorded 
@@ -72,6 +76,9 @@ Brief summary of control files. 
  memory.oom_control		 # set/show oom controls. 
  memory.numa_stat		 # show the number of memory usage per numa node 
  
+ memory.independent_kmem_limit	 # select whether or not kernel memory limits are 
+				   independent of user limits 
+ 
 1. History 
  
 The memory controller has a long history. A request for comments for the memory 
@@ -255,6 +262,31 @@ 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) 
+ 
+ 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 
+different than user memory, since it can't be swapped out, which makes it 
+possible to DoS the system by consuming too much of this precious resource. 
+Kernel memory limits are not imposed for the root cgroup. 
+ 
+Memory limits as specified by the standard Memory Controller may or may not 
+take kernel memory into consideration. This is achieved through the file 
+memory.independent_kmem_limit. A Value different than 0 will allow for kernel 
+memory to be controlled separately. 
+ 
+When kernel memory limits are not independent, the limit values set in 
+memory.kmem files are ignored. 
+ 
+Currently no soft limit is implemented for kernel memory. It is future work 
+to trigger slab reclaim when those limits are reached. 
+ 
+CAUTION: As of this writing, the kmem extention may prevent tasks from moving 
+among cgroups. If a task has kmem accounting in a cgroup, the task cannot be 
+moved until the kmem resource is released. Also, until the resource is fully 
+released, the cgroup cannot be destroyed. So, please consider your use cases 
+and set kmem extention config option carefully. 
+ 
 3. User Interface 
  
 0. Configuration 
diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig 
index 31ba0fd..e4b6246 100644 
--- a/init/Kconfig 
+++ b/init/Kconfig 
@@ -689,6 +689,20 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP_ENABLED 
 	  For those who want to have the feature enabled by default should 
 	  select this option (if, for some reason, they need to disable it 
 	  then swapaccount=0 does the trick). 
+config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM 
+	bool "Memory Resource Controller Kernel Memory accounting (EXPERIMENTAL)" 
+	depends on CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR && EXPERIMENTAL 
+	default n 
+	help 
+	  The Kernel Memory extension for Memory Resource Controller can limit 
+	  the amount of memory used by kernel objects in the system. Those are 
+	  fundamentally different from the entities handled by the standard 
+	  Memory Controller, which are page-based, and can be swapped. Users of 
+	  the kmem extension can use it to guarantee that no group of processes 
+	  will ever exhaust kernel resources alone. 
+ 
+	  WARNING: The current experimental implementation does not allow a 
+	  task to move among different cgroups with a kmem resource being held. 
  
 config CGROUP_PERF 
 	bool "Enable perf_event per-cpu per-container group (cgroup) monitoring" 
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c 
index 2d57555..1cb7daa 100644 
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c 
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c 
@@ -226,6 +226,10 @@ struct mem_cgroup { 
 	 */ 
 	struct res_counter memsw; 
 	/* 
+	 * the counter to account for kmem usage. 
+	 */ 
+	struct res_counter kmem; 
+	/* 
 	 * Per cgroup active and inactive list, similar to the 
 	 * per zone LRU lists. 
 	 */ 
@@ -276,6 +280,11 @@ struct mem_cgroup { 
 	 */ 
 	unsigned long 	move_charge_at_immigrate; 
 	/* 
+	 * Should kernel memory limits be stabilished independently 
+	 * from user memory ? 
+	 */ 
+	int		kmem_independent_accounting; 
+	/* 
 	 * percpu counter. 
 	 */ 
 	struct mem_cgroup_stat_cpu *stat; 
@@ -343,9 +352,14 @@ enum charge_type { 
 }; 
  
 /* for encoding cft->private value on file */ 
-#define _MEM			(0) 
-#define _MEMSWAP		(1) 
-#define _OOM_TYPE		(2) 
+ 
+enum mem_type { 
+	_MEM = 0, 
+	_MEMSWAP, 
+	_OOM_TYPE, 
+	_KMEM, 
+}; 
+ 
 #define MEMFILE_PRIVATE(x, val)	(((x) << 16) | (val)) 
 #define MEMFILE_TYPE(val)	(((val) >> 16) & 0xffff) 
 #define MEMFILE_ATTR(val)	((val) & 0xffff) 
@@ -3838,10 +3852,17 @@ static inline u64 mem_cgroup_usage(struct mem_cgroup *mem, bool swap) 
 	u64 val; 
  
 	if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(mem)) { 
+		val = 0; 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM 
+		if (!mem->kmem_independent_accounting) 
+			val = res_counter_read_u64(&mem->kmem, RES_USAGE); 
+#endif 
 		if (!swap) 
-			return res_counter_read_u64(&mem->res, RES_USAGE); 
+			val += res_counter_read_u64(&mem->res, RES_USAGE); 
 		else 
-			return res_counter_read_u64(&mem->memsw, RES_USAGE); 
+			val += res_counter_read_u64(&mem->memsw, RES_USAGE); 
+ 
+		return val; 
 	} 
  
 	val = mem_cgroup_recursive_stat(mem, MEM_CGROUP_STAT_CACHE); 
@@ -3874,6 +3895,11 @@ static u64 mem_cgroup_read(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft) 
 		else 
 			val = res_counter_read_u64(&mem->memsw, name); 
 		break; 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM 
+	case _KMEM: 
+		val = res_counter_read_u64(&mem->kmem, name); 
+		break; 
+#endif 
 	default: 
 		BUG(); 
 		break; 
@@ -4604,6 +4630,35 @@ static int mem_control_numa_stat_open(struct inode *unused, struct file *file) 
 } 
 #endif /* CONFIG_NUMA */ 
  
+#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM 
+static u64 kmem_limit_independent_read(struct cgroup *cgroup, struct cftype *cft) 
+{ 
+	return mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgroup)->kmem_independent_accounting; 
+} 
+ 
+static int kmem_limit_independent_write(struct cgroup *cgroup, struct cftype *cft, 
+					u64 val) 
+{ 
+	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cgroup); 
+	struct mem_cgroup *parent = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg); 
+ 
+	val = !!val; 
+ 
+	if (parent && parent->use_hierarchy && 
+	   (val != parent->kmem_independent_accounting)) 
+		return -EINVAL; 
+	/* 
+	 * TODO: We need to handle the case in which we are doing 
+	 * independent kmem accounting as authorized by our parent, 
+	 * but then our parent changes its parameter. 
+	 */ 
+	cgroup_lock(); 
+	memcg->kmem_independent_accounting = val; 
+	cgroup_unlock(); 
+	return 0; 
+} 
+#endif 
+ 
 static struct cftype mem_cgroup_files[] = { 
 	{ 
 		.name = "usage_in_bytes", 
@@ -4719,6 +4774,42 @@ static int register_memsw_files(struct cgroup *cont, struct cgroup_subsys *ss) 
 } 
 #endif 
  
+ 
+#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM 
+static struct cftype kmem_cgroup_files[] = { 
+	{ 
+		.name = "independent_kmem_limit", 
+		.read_u64 = kmem_limit_independent_read, 
+		.write_u64 = kmem_limit_independent_write, 
+	}, 
+	{ 
+		.name = "kmem.usage_in_bytes", 
+		.private = MEMFILE_PRIVATE(_KMEM, RES_USAGE), 
+		.read_u64 = mem_cgroup_read, 
+	}, 
+	{ 
+		.name = "kmem.limit_in_bytes", 
+		.private = MEMFILE_PRIVATE(_KMEM, RES_LIMIT), 
+		.read_u64 = mem_cgroup_read, 
+	}, 
+}; 
+ 
+static int register_kmem_files(struct cgroup *cont, struct cgroup_subsys *ss) 
+{ 
+	int ret = 0; 
+ 
+	ret = cgroup_add_files(cont, ss, kmem_cgroup_files, 
+			       ARRAY_SIZE(kmem_cgroup_files)); 
+	return ret; 
+}; 
+ 
+#else 
+static int register_kmem_files(struct cgroup *cont, struct cgroup_subsys *ss) 
+{ 
+	return 0; 
+} 
+#endif 
+ 
 static int alloc_mem_cgroup_per_zone_info(struct mem_cgroup *mem, int node) 
 { 
 	struct mem_cgroup_per_node *pn; 
@@ -4917,6 +5008,7 @@ mem_cgroup_create(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cont) 
 	if (parent && parent->use_hierarchy) { 
 		res_counter_init(&mem->res, &parent->res); 
 		res_counter_init(&mem->memsw, &parent->memsw); 
+		res_counter_init(&mem->kmem, &parent->kmem); 
 		/* 
 		 * We increment refcnt of the parent to ensure that we can 
 		 * safely access it on res_counter_charge/uncharge. 
@@ -4927,6 +5019,7 @@ mem_cgroup_create(struct c
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