linux/init
Tejun Heo 1663f26df3 slub: make sysfs directories for memcg sub-caches optional
SLUB creates a per-cache directory under /sys/kernel/slab which hosts a
bunch of debug files.  Usually, there aren't that many caches on a
system and this doesn't really matter; however, if memcg is in use, each
cache can have per-cgroup sub-caches.  SLUB creates the same directories
for these sub-caches under /sys/kernel/slab/$CACHE/cgroup.

Unfortunately, because there can be a lot of cgroups, active or
draining, the product of the numbers of caches, cgroups and files in
each directory can reach a very high number - hundreds of thousands is
commonplace.  Millions and beyond aren't difficult to reach either.

What's under /sys/kernel/slab is primarily for debugging and the
information and control on the a root cache already cover its
sub-caches.  While having a separate directory for each sub-cache can be
helpful for development, it doesn't make much sense to pay this amount
of overhead by default.

This patch introduces a boot parameter slub_memcg_sysfs which determines
whether to create sysfs directories for per-memcg sub-caches.  It also
adds CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON which determines the boot parameter's
default value and defaults to 0.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: kset_unregister(NULL) is legal]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170204145203.GB26958@mtj.duckdns.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
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Kconfig slub: make sysfs directories for memcg sub-caches optional 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
Makefile kbuild: allow archs to select link dead code/data elimination 2016-09-09 10:47:00 +02:00
calibrate.c kernel: add calibration_delay_done() 2014-06-16 12:47:39 -06:00
do_mounts.c init: reduce rootwait polling interval time to 5ms 2016-12-12 18:55:10 -08:00
do_mounts.h init/do_mounts: initrd_load() can be boolean 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
do_mounts_initrd.c init/do_mounts: initrd_load() can be boolean 2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
do_mounts_md.c init: disable sparse checking of the mount.o source files 2012-05-31 17:49:27 -07:00
do_mounts_rd.c init: use pr_cont() when displaying rotator during ramdisk loading. 2016-11-24 09:32:20 -08:00
init_task.c Replace <asm/uaccess.h> with <linux/uaccess.h> globally 2016-12-24 11:46:01 -08:00
initramfs.c kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code 2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
main.c This renames the (now inaccurate) CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA and related config 2017-02-21 17:56:45 -08:00
noinitramfs.c init: mark __user address space on string literals 2010-10-26 16:52:15 -07:00
version.c locking/atomic, kref: Add KREF_INIT() 2017-01-14 11:37:18 +01:00