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@@ -184,12 +184,14 @@ behind this approach is that a cgroup that aggressively uses a shared
184page will eventually get charged for it (once it is uncharged from 184page will eventually get charged for it (once it is uncharged from
185the cgroup that brought it in -- this will happen on memory pressure). 185the cgroup that brought it in -- this will happen on memory pressure).
186 186
187But see section 8.2: when moving a task to another cgroup, its pages may
188be recharged to the new cgroup, if move_charge_at_immigrate has been chosen.
189
187Exception: If CONFIG_CGROUP_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP is not used. 190Exception: If CONFIG_CGROUP_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP is not used.
188When you do swapoff and make swapped-out pages of shmem(tmpfs) to 191When you do swapoff and make swapped-out pages of shmem(tmpfs) to
189be backed into memory in force, charges for pages are accounted against the 192be backed into memory in force, charges for pages are accounted against the
190caller of swapoff rather than the users of shmem. 193caller of swapoff rather than the users of shmem.
191 194
192
1932.4 Swap Extension (CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP) 1952.4 Swap Extension (CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP)
194 196
195Swap Extension allows you to record charge for swap. A swapped-in page is 197Swap Extension allows you to record charge for swap. A swapped-in page is
@@ -615,8 +617,7 @@ memory cgroup.
615 bit | what type of charges would be moved ? 617 bit | what type of charges would be moved ?
616 -----+------------------------------------------------------------------------ 618 -----+------------------------------------------------------------------------
617 0 | A charge of an anonymous page(or swap of it) used by the target task. 619 0 | A charge of an anonymous page(or swap of it) used by the target task.
618 | Those pages and swaps must be used only by the target task. You must 620 | You must enable Swap Extension(see 2.4) to enable move of swap charges.
619 | enable Swap Extension(see 2.4) to enable move of swap charges.
620 -----+------------------------------------------------------------------------ 621 -----+------------------------------------------------------------------------
621 1 | A charge of file pages(normal file, tmpfs file(e.g. ipc shared memory) 622 1 | A charge of file pages(normal file, tmpfs file(e.g. ipc shared memory)
622 | and swaps of tmpfs file) mmapped by the target task. Unlike the case of 623 | and swaps of tmpfs file) mmapped by the target task. Unlike the case of
@@ -629,8 +630,6 @@ memory cgroup.
629 630
6308.3 TODO 6318.3 TODO
631 632
632- Implement madvise(2) to let users decide the vma to be moved or not to be
633 moved.
634- All of moving charge operations are done under cgroup_mutex. It's not good 633- All of moving charge operations are done under cgroup_mutex. It's not good
635 behavior to hold the mutex too long, so we may need some trick. 634 behavior to hold the mutex too long, so we may need some trick.
636 635