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From:   Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Jul 2023 11:24:20 -0700
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 7/8] memcg: add sysctl and config option to control
 memory recharging
To:     Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
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On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 11:13=E2=80=AFAM Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.or=
g> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 07:08:24AM +0000, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> > Add a sysctl to enable/disable memory recharging for offline memcgs. Ad=
d
> > a config option to control whether or not it is enabled by default.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/memcontrol.h |  2 ++
> >  kernel/sysctl.c            | 11 +++++++++++
> >  mm/Kconfig                 | 12 ++++++++++++
> >  mm/memcontrol.c            |  9 ++++++++-
> >  4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> > index 59b653d4a76e..ae9f09ee90cb 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> > @@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_cookie {
> >
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> >
> > +extern int sysctl_recharge_offline_memcgs;
> > +
> >  #define MEM_CGROUP_ID_SHIFT  16
> >  #define MEM_CGROUP_ID_MAX    USHRT_MAX
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
> > index 354a2d294f52..1735d1d95652 100644
> > --- a/kernel/sysctl.c
> > +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
> > @@ -2249,6 +2249,17 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] =3D {
> >               .extra2         =3D (void *)&mmap_rnd_compat_bits_max,
> >       },
> >  #endif
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG
> > +     {
> > +             .procname       =3D "recharge_offline_memcgs",
> > +             .data           =3D &sysctl_recharge_offline_memcgs,
> > +             .maxlen         =3D sizeof(sysctl_recharge_offline_memcgs=
),
> > +             .mode           =3D 0644,
> > +             .proc_handler   =3D proc_dointvec_minmax,
> > +             .extra1         =3D SYSCTL_ZERO,
> > +             .extra2         =3D SYSCTL_ONE,
> > +     },
> > +#endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG */
> >       { }
> >  };
>
> Please don't add any more sysctls to kernel/sysctl.c, git log that file
> for a series of cleanups which show how to use your own and why we have
> been doing that cleanup.

Thanks for pointing this out, I definitely missed it. Will do that in
the next version. I guess this will also reduce the reviewer churn if
I won't be touching kernel/sysctl.c?

>
>   Luis