memcg: add interface to reset limits

We don't have an interface to reset mem.limit or memsw.limit now.

This patch allows to reset mem.limit or memsw.limit when they are being
set to -1.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
index af48135bd9b821ea12d12dbd0f560d9afb0b7f95..23d1262c0775755efa8363d049d008e875776f89 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ We can alter the memory limit:
 
 NOTE: We can use a suffix (k, K, m, M, g or G) to indicate values in kilo,
 mega or gigabytes.
+NOTE: We can write "-1" to reset the *.limit_in_bytes(unlimited).
 
 # cat /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes
 4194304

diff --git a/include/linux/res_counter.h b/include/linux/res_counter.h
index 4c5bcf6ca7e8b0457bf1b25f2922221fb92985ac..511f42fc68166475b063b54a09f596ff74556310 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/res_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/res_counter.h
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ struct res_counter {
        struct res_counter *parent;
 };
 
+#define RESOURCE_MAX (unsigned long long)LLONG_MAX
+
 /**
  * Helpers to interact with userspace
  * res_counter_read_u64() - returns the value of the specified member.

diff --git a/kernel/res_counter.c b/kernel/res_counter.c
index bf8e7534c803d4e7708ed6929ddd54f00d12064b..e1338f074314d7e85fca035ac4ab55f20704b8cd 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/res_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/res_counter.c
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 void res_counter_init(struct res_counter *counter, struct res_counter *parent)
 {
        spin_lock_init(&counter->lock);
-       counter->limit = (unsigned long long)LLONG_MAX;
+       counter->limit = RESOURCE_MAX;
        counter->parent = parent;
 }
 
@@ -133,6 +133,16 @@ int res_counter_memparse_write_strategy(const char *buf,
                                        unsigned long long *res)
 {
        char *end;
+
+       /* return RESOURCE_MAX(unlimited) if "-1" is specified */
+       if (*buf == '-') {
+               *res = simple_strtoull(buf + 1, &end, 10);
+               if (*res != 1 || *end != '\0')
+                       return -EINVAL;
+               *res = RESOURCE_MAX;
+               return 0;
+       }
+
        /* FIXME - make memparse() take const char* args */
        *res = memparse((char *)buf, &end);
        if (*end != '\0')