Re: [PATCH] mm/memcontrol: add tips for kmem.slabinfo

[Xiongwei Song]

On Tue, Aug 8, 2023 at 3:30 PM Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon 07-08-23 20:59:59, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 08, 2023 at 10:22:29AM +0800, xiongwei.song@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > From: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > No any output from kmem.slabinfo, which is not friendly. Adding
> > > tips for it.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  mm/memcontrol.c | 6 ++----
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > > index e8ca4bdcb03c..58d3bd93890b 100644
> > > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> > > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > > @@ -5002,10 +5002,8 @@ static ssize_t memcg_write_event_control(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
> > >  #if defined(CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM) && (defined(CONFIG_SLAB) || defined(CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG))
> > >  static int mem_cgroup_slab_show(struct seq_file *m, void *p)
> > >  {
> > > -   /*
> > > -    * Deprecated.
> > > -    * Please, take a look at tools/cgroup/memcg_slabinfo.py .
> > > -    */
> > > +   seq_puts(m, "This file is deprecated.\n"
> > > +           "Please use tools/cgroup/memcg_slabinfo.py, which is in kernel source.\n");
> >
> > It'll break the ABI.
>
> Agreed
>
> > The only possible option here is to use WARN_ON_ONCE(), which will print once to dmesg.
> > But honestly I'm not sure we need it.
>
> There are systems with panic_on_warn configured. I do not think we want
> those to go down just becasue some random tool tries to read this file.

Thank you for the comments.

> --
> Michal Hocko
> SUSE Labs
>