[PATCH] mm: memcontrol: document the new swap control behavior

[Alex Shi]

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 .../admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst          | 19 +++++++------------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
index 0ae4f564c2d6..12757e63b26c 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst
@@ -199,11 +199,11 @@ An RSS page is unaccounted when it's fully unmapped. A PageCache page is
 unaccounted when it's removed from radix-tree. Even if RSS pages are fully
 unmapped (by kswapd), they may exist as SwapCache in the system until they
 are really freed. Such SwapCaches are also accounted.
-A swapped-in page is not accounted until it's mapped.
+A swapped-in page is accounted after adding into swapcache.
 
 Note: The kernel does swapin-readahead and reads multiple swaps at once.
-This means swapped-in pages may contain pages for other tasks than a task
-causing page fault. So, we avoid accounting at swap-in I/O.
+Since page's memcg recorded into swap whatever memsw enabled, the page will
+be accounted after swapin.
 
 At page migration, accounting information is kept.
 
@@ -222,18 +222,13 @@ the cgroup that brought it in -- this will happen on memory pressure).
 But see section 8.2: when moving a task to another cgroup, its pages may
 be recharged to the new cgroup, if move_charge_at_immigrate has been chosen.
 
-Exception: If CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP is not used.
-When you do swapoff and make swapped-out pages of shmem(tmpfs) to
-be backed into memory in force, charges for pages are accounted against the
-caller of swapoff rather than the users of shmem.
-
-2.4 Swap Extension (CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP)
+2.4 Swap Extension
 --------------------------------------
 
-Swap Extension allows you to record charge for swap. A swapped-in page is
-charged back to original page allocator if possible.
+Swap usage is always recorded for each of cgroup. Swap Extension allows you to
+read and limit it.
 
-When swap is accounted, following files are added.
+When CONFIG_SWAP is enabled, following files are added.
 
  - memory.memsw.usage_in_bytes.
  - memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes.
-- 



> Also as to the RSS account name change, I don't know if it's good to polish
> them in docs.

I didn't actually change anything user-visible, just the internal name
of the counters:

static const unsigned int memcg1_stats[] = {
	NR_FILE_PAGES,		/* was MEMCG_CACHE */
	NR_ANON_MAPPED,		/* was MEMCG_RSS */
	NR_ANON_THPS,		/* was MEMCG_RSS_HUGE */
	NR_SHMEM,
	NR_FILE_MAPPED,
	NR_FILE_DIRTY,
	NR_WRITEBACK,
	MEMCG_SWAP,
};

static const char *const memcg1_stat_names[] = {
	"cache",
	"rss",
	"rss_huge",
	"shmem",
	"mapped_file",
	"dirty",
	"writeback",
	"swap",
};

Or did you refer to something else?