Skip to content
Snippets Groups Projects
Commit e3992573 authored by Mike Yuan's avatar Mike Yuan Committed by Andrew Morton
Browse files

mm/memcontrol: respect zswap.writeback setting from parent cg too

Currently, the behavior of zswap.writeback wrt.  the cgroup hierarchy
seems a bit odd.  Unlike zswap.max, it doesn't honor the value from parent
cgroups.  This surfaced when people tried to globally disable zswap
writeback, i.e.  reserve physical swap space only for hibernation [1] -
disabling zswap.writeback only for the root cgroup results in subcgroups
with zswap.writeback=1 still performing writeback.

The inconsistency became more noticeable after I introduced the
MemoryZSwapWriteback= systemd unit setting [2] for controlling the knob.
The patch assumed that the kernel would enforce the value of parent
cgroups.  It could probably be workarounded from systemd's side, by going
up the slice unit tree and inheriting the value.  Yet I think it's more
sensible to make it behave consistently with zswap.max and friends.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate#Disable_zswap_writeback_to_use_the_swap_space_only_for_hibernation
[2] https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/31734

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240823162506.12117-1-me@yhndnzj.com


Fixes: 501a06fe ("zswap: memcontrol: implement zswap writeback disabling")
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Yuan <me@yhndnzj.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarNhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarYosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent a3f6a89c
No related branches found
No related tags found
Loading
Loading
0% Loading or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or to comment