Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: eliminate root memory.current

[Johannes Weiner]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 11:07:56AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 21-10-15 14:49:54, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > memory.current on the root level doesn't add anything that wouldn't be
> > more accurate and detailed using system statistics. It already doesn't
> > include slabs, and it'll be a pain to keep in sync when further memory
> > types are accounted in the memory controller. Remove it.
> > 
> > Note that this applies to the new unified hierarchy interface only.
> 
> OK, I can understand your reasoning, other knobs are !root as well.
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> After the bug mentioned below is fixed
> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

> > @@ -5022,7 +5022,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_bind(struct cgroup_subsys_state *root_css)
> >  static u64 memory_current_read(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
> >  			       struct cftype *cft)
> >  {
> > -	return mem_cgroup_usage(mem_cgroup_from_css(css), false);
> > +	return page_counter_read(&mem_cgroup_from_css(css)->memory);
> 
> We want that in bytes though.

Right you are, thanks for catching that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index c71fe40..2cd149e 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -5022,7 +5022,9 @@ static void mem_cgroup_bind(struct cgroup_subsys_state *root_css)
 static u64 memory_current_read(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
 			       struct cftype *cft)
 {
-	return page_counter_read(&mem_cgroup_from_css(css)->memory);
+	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css);
+
+	return (u64)page_counter_read(&memcg->memory) * PAGE_SIZE;
 }
 
 static int memory_low_show(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
-- 
2.6.1
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