Re: [PATCH v1] tools/cgroup: introduce cgroup v2 memory.events listener

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 13 Oct 2023 21:41:07 +0300 Dmitry Rokosov <ddrokosov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is a simple listener for memory events that handles counter
> changes in runtime. It can be set up for a specific memory cgroup v2.
> 
> The output example:
> =====
> $ /tmp/cgroup_v2_event_listener test
> Initialized MEMCG events with counters:
> MEMCG events:
> 	low: 0
> 	high: 0
> 	max: 0
> 	oom: 0
> 	oom_kill: 0
> 	oom_group_kill: 0
> Started monitoring memory events from '/sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.events'...
> Received event in /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.events:
> *** 1 MEMCG oom_kill event, change counter 0 => 1
> Received event in /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.events:
> *** 1 MEMCG oom_kill event, change counter 1 => 2
> Received event in /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.events:
> *** 1 MEMCG oom_kill event, change counter 2 => 3
> Received event in /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.events:
> *** 1 MEMCG oom_kill event, change counter 3 => 4
> Received event in /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.events:
> *** 2 MEMCG max events, change counter 0 => 2
> Received event in /sys/fs/cgroup/test/memory.events:
> *** 8 MEMCG max events, change counter 2 => 10
>
> ...
>

Looks nice to me.

Perhaps it should be under ./samples/?

I suggest adding a comment to __memory_events_show() reminding people
to update this code if new events are added.