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authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>2009-01-29 17:25:14 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-29 21:04:44 -0500
commit8d50d369d1b3ccc4d96ce01f62146173ee7064ca (patch)
treee48c19188cb9eba15e73702e0f2e33bd7aba0d84 /Documentation
parent85d9fc89fb0f0703df6444f260187c088a8d59ff (diff)
memcg: update document to mention that swapoff should be tested
Considering the recently found problem "memcg: fix refcnt handling at swapoff", it's better to mention swapoff behavior in the memcg_test document. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt24
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diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt
index 19533f93b7a2..523a9c16c400 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
1Memory Resource Controller(Memcg) Implementation Memo. 1Memory Resource Controller(Memcg) Implementation Memo.
2Last Updated: 2008/12/15 2Last Updated: 2009/1/19
3Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.28-rc8-mm. 3Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.29-rc2.
4 4
5Because VM is getting complex (one of reasons is memcg...), memcg's behavior 5Because VM is getting complex (one of reasons is memcg...), memcg's behavior
6is complex. This is a document for memcg's internal behavior. 6is complex. This is a document for memcg's internal behavior.
@@ -340,3 +340,23 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y.
340 # mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -t cpuset,memory,cpu,devices 340 # mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -t cpuset,memory,cpu,devices
341 341
342 and do task move, mkdir, rmdir etc...under this. 342 and do task move, mkdir, rmdir etc...under this.
343
344 9.7 swapoff.
345 Besides management of swap is one of complicated parts of memcg,
346 call path of swap-in at swapoff is not same as usual swap-in path..
347 It's worth to be tested explicitly.
348
349 For example, test like following is good.
350 (Shell-A)
351 # mount -t cgroup none /cgroup -t memory
352 # mkdir /cgroup/test
353 # echo 40M > /cgroup/test/memory.limit_in_bytes
354 # echo 0 > /cgroup/test/tasks
355 Run malloc(100M) program under this. You'll see 60M of swaps.
356 (Shell-B)
357 # move all tasks in /cgroup/test to /cgroup
358 # /sbin/swapoff -a
359 # rmdir /test/cgroup
360 # kill malloc task.
361
362 Of course, tmpfs v.s. swapoff test should be tested, too.