Re: [PATCH] mm, memcg: Report number of memcg caches in slabinfo

[Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>]

On 6/17/19 10:38 AM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> [Cc linux-api]
>
> On Mon 17-06-19 10:21:49, Waiman Long wrote:
>> There are concerns about memory leaks from extensive use of memory
>> cgroups as each memory cgroup creates its own set of kmem caches. There
>> is a possiblity that the memcg kmem caches may remain even after the
>> memory cgroup removal.
>>
>> Therefore, it will be useful to show how many memcg caches are present
>> for each of the kmem caches.
> How is a user going to use that information?  Btw. Don't we have an
> interface to display the number of (dead) cgroups?

The interface to report dead cgroups is for cgroup v2 (cgroup.stat)
only. I don't think there is a way to find that for cgroup v1. Also the
number of memcg kmem caches may not be the same as the number of
memcg's. It can range from 0 to above the number of memcg's.  So it is
an interesting number by itself.

From the user perspective, if the numbers is way above the number of
memcg's, there is probably something wrong there.

Cheers,
Longman