On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 01:46:59PM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote: > Deprecate memory.kmem.slabinfo. > > An empty file will be presented if corresponding config options are > enabled. > > The interface is implementation dependent, isn't present in cgroup v2, > and is generally useful only for core mm debugging purposes. In other > words, it doesn't provide any value for the absolute majority of users. > > A drgn-based replacement can be found in tools/cgroup/slabinfo.py . > It does support cgroup v1 and v2, mimics memory.kmem.slabinfo output > and also allows to get any additional information without a need > to recompile the kernel. > > If a drgn-based solution is too slow for a task, a bpf-based tracing > tool can be used, which can easily keep track of all slab allocations > belonging to a memory cgroup. > > Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
