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SubjectRe: [-mm] Disable the memory controller by default (v3)
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:46 AM, Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> If everyone agrees on this approach and likes it, should we push this
> into 2.6.25?
>
> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Looks good to me - although I wouldn't bother with the "inline" on
cgroup_turnonoff()

Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>

> ---
>
> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 +++
> kernel/cgroup.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
> mm/memcontrol.c | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff -puN kernel/cgroup.c~memory-controller-default-option-off kernel/cgroup.c
> --- linux-2.6.25-rc8/kernel/cgroup.c~memory-controller-default-option-off 2008-04-07 16:24:28.000000000 +0530
> +++ linux-2.6.25-rc8-balbir/kernel/cgroup.c 2008-04-08 16:04:49.000000000 +0530
> @@ -3063,7 +3063,7 @@ static void cgroup_release_agent(struct
> mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
> }
>
> -static int __init cgroup_disable(char *str)
> +static inline int __init cgroup_turnonoff(char *str, int disable)
> {
> int i;
> char *token;
> @@ -3076,13 +3076,22 @@ static int __init cgroup_disable(char *s
> struct cgroup_subsys *ss = subsys[i];
>
> if (!strcmp(token, ss->name)) {
> - ss->disabled = 1;
> - printk(KERN_INFO "Disabling %s control group"
> - " subsystem\n", ss->name);
> + ss->disabled = disable;
> break;
> }
> }
> }
> return 1;
> }
> +
> +static int __init cgroup_disable(char *str)
> +{
> + return cgroup_turnonoff(str, 1);
> +}
> __setup("cgroup_disable=", cgroup_disable);
> +
> +static int __init cgroup_enable(char *str)
> +{
> + return cgroup_turnonoff(str, 0);
> +}
> +__setup("cgroup_enable=", cgroup_enable);
> diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~memory-controller-default-option-off mm/memcontrol.c
> --- linux-2.6.25-rc8/mm/memcontrol.c~memory-controller-default-option-off 2008-04-07 16:24:28.000000000 +0530
> +++ linux-2.6.25-rc8-balbir/mm/memcontrol.c 2008-04-07 16:40:22.000000000 +0530
> @@ -1104,4 +1104,5 @@ struct cgroup_subsys mem_cgroup_subsys =
> .populate = mem_cgroup_populate,
> .attach = mem_cgroup_move_task,
> .early_init = 0,
> + .disabled = 1,
> };
> diff -puN Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt~memory-controller-default-option-off Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> --- linux-2.6.25-rc8/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt~memory-controller-default-option-off 2008-04-07 16:38:25.000000000 +0530
> +++ linux-2.6.25-rc8-balbir/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2008-04-07 17:53:28.000000000 +0530
> @@ -382,8 +382,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
> See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
>
> cgroup_disable= [KNL] Disable a particular controller
> + cgroup_enable= [KNL] Enable a particular controller
> + For both cgroup_enable and cgroup_enable
> Format: {name of the controller(s) to disable}
> {Currently supported controllers - "memory"}
> + {Memory controller is disabled by default}
>
> checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
> Format: { "0" | "1" }
> _
>
> --
> Warm Regards,
> Balbir Singh
> Linux Technology Center
> IBM, ISTL
>


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