Commit 9852ae3f authored by Chris Down's avatar Chris Down Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm, memcg: consider subtrees in memory.events

memory.stat and other files already consider subtrees in their output, and
we should too in order to not present an inconsistent interface.

The current situation is fairly confusing, because people interacting with
cgroups expect hierarchical behaviour in the vein of memory.stat,
cgroup.events, and other files.  For example, this causes confusion when
debugging reclaim events under low, as currently these always read "0" at
non-leaf memcg nodes, which frequently causes people to misdiagnose breach
behaviour.  The same confusion applies to other counters in this file when
debugging issues.

Aggregation is done at write time instead of at read-time since these
counters aren't hot (unlike memory.stat which is per-page, so it does it
at read time), and it makes sense to bundle this with the file
notifications.

After this patch, events are propagated up the hierarchy:

    [root@ktst ~]# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice/memory.events
    low 0
    high 0
    max 0...
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