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Subject[RFC] [PATCH 1/9] memcg:make root no limit
Make root cgroup of memory resource controller to have no limit.

By this, users cannot set limit to root group. This is for making root cgroup
as a kind of trash-can.

For accounting pages which has no owner, which are created by force_empty,
we need some cgroup with no_limit. A patch for rewriting force_empty will
will follow this one.

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

---
Documentation/controllers/memory.txt | 4 ++++
mm/memcontrol.c | 7 +++++++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

Index: mmtom-2.6.27-rc5+/mm/memcontrol.c
===================================================================
--- mmtom-2.6.27-rc5+.orig/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ mmtom-2.6.27-rc5+/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -136,6 +136,9 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
};
static struct mem_cgroup init_mem_cgroup;

+#define is_root_cgroup(cgrp) ((cgrp) == &init_mem_cgroup)
+
+
/*
* We use the lower bit of the page->page_cgroup pointer as a bit spin
* lock. We need to ensure that page->page_cgroup is at least two
@@ -937,6 +940,10 @@ static int mem_cgroup_write(struct cgrou

switch (cft->private) {
case RES_LIMIT:
+ if (is_root_cgroup(memcg)) {
+ ret = -EINVAL;
+ break;
+ }
/* This function does all necessary parse...reuse it */
ret = res_counter_memparse_write_strategy(buffer, &val);
if (!ret)
Index: mmtom-2.6.27-rc5+/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt
===================================================================
--- mmtom-2.6.27-rc5+.orig/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt
+++ mmtom-2.6.27-rc5+/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt
@@ -121,6 +121,9 @@ The corresponding routines that remove a
a page from Page Cache is used to decrement the accounting counters of the
cgroup.

+The root cgroup is not allowed to be set limit but usage is accounted.
+For controlling usage of memory, you need to create a cgroup.
+
2.3 Shared Page Accounting

Shared pages are accounted on the basis of the first touch approach. The
@@ -172,6 +175,7 @@ We can alter the memory limit:

NOTE: We can use a suffix (k, K, m, M, g or G) to indicate values in kilo,
mega or gigabytes.
+Note: root cgroup is not able to be set limit.

# cat /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes
4194304


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