memcg: Revert "memcg: add memory.vmscan_stat"

Revert the post-3.0 commit 82f9d486e59f5 ("memcg: add
memory.vmscan_stat").

The implementation of per-memcg reclaim statistics violates how memcg
hierarchies usually behave: hierarchically.

The reclaim statistics are accounted to child memcgs and the parent
hitting the limit, but not to hierarchy levels in between.  Usually,
hierarchical statistics are perfectly recursive, with each level
representing the sum of itself and all its children.

Since this exports statistics to userspace, this may lead to confusion
and problems with changing things after the release, so revert it now,
we can try again later.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <jweiner@redhat.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Ying Han <yinghan@google.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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 84 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
index 6f3c598971fc..06eb6d957c83 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ will be charged as a new owner of it.
 
 5.2 stat file
 
-5.2.1 memory.stat file includes following statistics
+memory.stat file includes following statistics
 
 # per-memory cgroup local status
 cache           - # of bytes of page cache memory.
@@ -438,89 +438,6 @@ Note:
          file_mapped is accounted only when the memory cgroup is owner of page
          cache.)
 
-5.2.2 memory.vmscan_stat
-
-memory.vmscan_stat includes statistics information for memory scanning and
-freeing, reclaiming. The statistics shows memory scanning information since
-memory cgroup creation and can be reset to 0 by writing 0 as
-
- #echo 0 > ../memory.vmscan_stat
-
-This file contains following statistics.
-
-[param]_[file_or_anon]_pages_by_[reason]_[under_heararchy]
-[param]_elapsed_ns_by_[reason]_[under_hierarchy]
-
-For example,
-
-  scanned_file_pages_by_limit indicates the number of scanned
-  file pages at vmscan.
-
-Now, 3 parameters are supported
-
-  scanned - the number of pages scanned by vmscan
-  rotated - the number of pages activated at vmscan
-  freed   - the number of pages freed by vmscan
-
-If "rotated" is high against scanned/freed, the memcg seems busy.
-
-Now, 2 reason are supported
-
-  limit - the memory cgroup's limit
-  system - global memory pressure + softlimit
-           (global memory pressure not under softlimit is not handled now)
-
-When under_hierarchy is added in the tail, the number indicates the
-total memcg scan of its children and itself.
-
-elapsed_ns is a elapsed time in nanosecond. This may include sleep time
-and not indicates CPU usage. So, please take this as just showing
-latency.
-
-Here is an example.
-
-# cat /cgroup/memory/A/memory.vmscan_stat
-scanned_pages_by_limit 9471864
-scanned_anon_pages_by_limit 6640629
-scanned_file_pages_by_limit 2831235
-rotated_pages_by_limit 4243974
-rotated_anon_pages_by_limit 3971968
-rotated_file_pages_by_limit 272006
-freed_pages_by_limit 2318492
-freed_anon_pages_by_limit 962052
-freed_file_pages_by_limit 1356440
-elapsed_ns_by_limit 351386416101
-scanned_pages_by_system 0
-scanned_anon_pages_by_system 0
-scanned_file_pages_by_system 0
-rotated_pages_by_system 0
-rotated_anon_pages_by_system 0
-rotated_file_pages_by_system 0
-freed_pages_by_system 0
-freed_anon_pages_by_system 0
-freed_file_pages_by_system 0
-elapsed_ns_by_system 0
-scanned_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 9471864
-scanned_anon_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 6640629
-scanned_file_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 2831235
-rotated_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 4243974
-rotated_anon_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 3971968
-rotated_file_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 272006
-freed_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 2318492
-freed_anon_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 962052
-freed_file_pages_by_limit_under_hierarchy 1356440
-elapsed_ns_by_limit_under_hierarchy 351386416101
-scanned_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
-scanned_anon_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
-scanned_file_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
-rotated_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
-rotated_anon_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
-rotated_file_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
-freed_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
-freed_anon_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
-freed_file_pages_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
-elapsed_ns_by_system_under_hierarchy 0
-
 5.3 swappiness
 
 Similar to /proc/sys/vm/swappiness, but affecting a hierarchy of groups only.