Re: [PATCH] mm/memcontrol: Skip root memcg in memcg_memory_event_mm

[Haifeng Xu]

On 2022/12/16 14:42, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 09:43:02AM +0800, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2022/12/16 02:18, Shakeel Butt wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 09:19:07AM +0000, Haifeng Xu wrote:
>>>> The memory events aren't supported on root cgroup, so there is no need
>>>> to account MEMCG_OOM_KILL on root memcg.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Can you explain the scenario where this is happening and causing issue
>>> for you?
>>>
>> If the victim selected by oom killer belongs to root memcg, memcg_memory_event_mm
>> still counts the MEMCG_OOM_KILL event. This behavior is meaningless because the
>> flag of events/events.local in memory_files is CFTYPE_NOT_ON_ROOT. The root memcg
>> does not count any memory event.
>>
> 
> What about v1's memory.oom_control?
>
 
The memory.oom_control doesn't set the CFTYPE_NOT_ON_ROOT flag. But oom_kill_disable or
under_oom actually only support non-root memcg, so the memory_events should be consistent
with them.