BACKPORT: 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.
(cherry picked from commit 1663f26df3df7df3720306ca67f5ea8296d68fa1)
[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>
Bug: 113130132
Change-Id: I36b3b65ad583527c57518aa9f73a97ebd68d01b2
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@google.com>
diff --git a/mm/slub.c b/mm/slub.c
index e0ce5de..b5468c2 100644
--- a/mm/slub.c
+++ b/mm/slub.c
@@ -4667,6 +4667,22 @@ enum slab_stat_type {
#define SO_OBJECTS (1 << SL_OBJECTS)
#define SO_TOTAL (1 << SL_TOTAL)
+#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
+static bool memcg_sysfs_enabled = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON);
+
+static int __init setup_slub_memcg_sysfs(char *str)
+{
+ int v;
+
+ if (get_option(&str, &v) > 0)
+ memcg_sysfs_enabled = v;
+
+ return 1;
+}
+
+__setup("slub_memcg_sysfs=", setup_slub_memcg_sysfs);
+#endif
+
static ssize_t show_slab_objects(struct kmem_cache *s,
char *buf, unsigned long flags)
{
@@ -5572,8 +5588,14 @@ static int sysfs_slab_add(struct kmem_cache *s)
{
int err;
const char *name;
+ struct kset *kset = cache_kset(s);
int unmergeable = slab_unmergeable(s);
+ if (!kset) {
+ kobject_init(&s->kobj, &slab_ktype);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
if (unmergeable) {
/*
* Slabcache can never be merged so we can use the name proper.
@@ -5590,7 +5612,7 @@ static int sysfs_slab_add(struct kmem_cache *s)
name = create_unique_id(s);
}
- s->kobj.kset = cache_kset(s);
+ s->kobj.kset = kset;
err = kobject_init_and_add(&s->kobj, &slab_ktype, NULL, "%s", name);
if (err)
goto out;
@@ -5600,7 +5622,7 @@ static int sysfs_slab_add(struct kmem_cache *s)
goto out_del_kobj;
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
- if (is_root_cache(s)) {
+ if (is_root_cache(s) && memcg_sysfs_enabled) {
s->memcg_kset = kset_create_and_add("cgroup", NULL, &s->kobj);
if (!s->memcg_kset) {
err = -ENOMEM;