mm, memcg: reconsider kmem.limit_in_bytes deprecation
This reverts commits 86327e8e ("memcg: drop kmem.limit_in_bytes") and partially reverts 58056f77 ("memcg, kmem: further deprecate kmem.limit_in_bytes") which have incrementally removed support for the kernel memory accounting hard limit. Unfortunately it has turned out that there is still userspace depending on the existence of memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes [1]. The underlying functionality is not really required but the non-existent file just confuses the userspace which fails in the result. The patch to fix this on the userspace side has been submitted but it is hard to predict how it will propagate through the maze of 3rd party consumers of the software. Now, reverting alone 86327e8e is not an option because there is another set of userspace which cannot cope with ENOTSUPP returned when writing to the file. Therefore we have to go and revisit 58056f77 as well. There are two ways to go ahead. Either we give up on the deprecation and fully revert 58056f77 as well or we can keep kmem.limit_in_bytes but make the write a noop and warn about the fact. This should work for both known breaking workloads which depend on the existence but do not depend on the hard limit enforcement. Note to backporters to stable trees. a8c49af3 ("memcg: add per-memcg total kernel memory stat") introduced in 4.18 has added memcg_account_kmem so the accounting is not done by obj_cgroup_charge_pages directly for v1 anymore. Prior kernels need to add it explicitly (thanks to Johannes for pointing this out). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build - remove unused local] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230920081101.GA12096@linuxonhyperv3.guj3yctzbm1etfxqx2vob5hsef.xx.internal.cloudapp.net [1] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZRE5VJozPZt9bRPy@dhcp22.suse.cz Fixes: 86327e8e ("memcg: drop kmem.limit_in_bytes") Fixes: 58056f77 ("memcg, kmem: further deprecate kmem.limit_in_bytes") Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jeremi Piotrowski <jpiotrowski@linux.microsoft.com> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Tejun heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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