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Documentation/memcg: update kmem limit doc as codes behavior

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The restriction of kmem setting is not there anymore because the
accounting is enabled by default even in the cgroup v1 - see
b313aeee25 ("mm: memcontrol: enable kmem accounting for all
cgroups in the legacy hierarchy").

Update docs accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Qiang Huang <h.huangqiang@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Qiang Huang 2016-05-11 14:07:31 +08:00 committed by Jonathan Corbet
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@ -280,17 +280,9 @@ the amount of kernel memory used by the system. Kernel memory is fundamentally
different than user memory, since it can't be swapped out, which makes it
possible to DoS the system by consuming too much of this precious resource.
Kernel memory won't be accounted at all until limit on a group is set. This
allows for existing setups to continue working without disruption. The limit
cannot be set if the cgroup have children, or if there are already tasks in the
cgroup. Attempting to set the limit under those conditions will return -EBUSY.
When use_hierarchy == 1 and a group is accounted, its children will
automatically be accounted regardless of their limit value.
After a group is first limited, it will be kept being accounted until it
is removed. The memory limitation itself, can of course be removed by writing
-1 to memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes. In this case, kmem will be accounted, but not
limited.
Kernel memory accounting is enabled for all memory cgroups by default. But
it can be disabled system-wide by passing cgroup.memory=nokmem to the kernel
at boot time. In this case, kernel memory will not be accounted at all.
Kernel memory limits are not imposed for the root cgroup. Usage for the root
cgroup may or may not be accounted. The memory used is accumulated into