From 1663f26df3df7df3720306ca67f5ea8296d68fa1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 15:41:39 -0800 Subject: 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 Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Pekka Enberg Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Joonsoo Kim Cc: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- init/Kconfig | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) (limited to 'init') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index 55bb6fbc294e..22f437ff65e5 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -1779,6 +1779,20 @@ config SLUB_DEBUG SLUB sysfs support. /sys/slab will not exist and there will be no support for cache validation etc. +config SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON + default n + bool "Enable memcg SLUB sysfs support by default" if EXPERT + depends on SLUB && SYSFS && MEMCG + help + SLUB creates a directory under /sys/kernel/slab for each + allocation cache to host info and debug files. If memory + cgroup is enabled, each cache can have per memory cgroup + caches. SLUB can create the same sysfs directories for these + caches under /sys/kernel/slab/CACHE/cgroup but it can lead + to a very high number of debug files being created. This is + controlled by slub_memcg_sysfs boot parameter and this + config option determines the parameter's default value. + config COMPAT_BRK bool "Disable heap randomization" default y -- cgit v1.2.3