memcg: drop kmem.limit_in_bytes
kmem.limit_in_bytes (v1 way to limit kernel memory usage) has been deprecated since 58056f77 ("memcg, kmem: further deprecate kmem.limit_in_bytes") merged in 5.16. We haven't heard about any serious users since then but it seems that the mere presence of the file is causing more harm thatn good. We (SUSE) have had several bug reports from customers where Docker based containers started to fail because a write to kmem.limit_in_bytes has failed. This was unexpected because runc code only expects ENOENT (kmem disabled) or EBUSY (tasks already running within cgroup). So a new error code was unexpected and the whole container startup failed. This has been later addressed by https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/commit/52390d68040637dfc77f9fda6bbe70952423d380 so current Docker runtimes do not suffer from the problem anymore. There are still older version of Docker in use and likely hard to get rid of completely. Address this by wiping out the file completely and effectively get back to pre 4.5 era and CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM=n configuration. I would recommend backporting to stable trees which have picked up 58056f77 ("memcg, kmem: further deprecate kmem.limit_in_bytes"). [mhocko@suse.com: restore _KMEM switch case] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ZKe5wxdbvPi5Cwd7@dhcp22.suse.cz Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230704115240.14672-1-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by:Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by:
Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by:
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@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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