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+SUMMARY = "Systemd drop-in memory limits for services"
+DESCRIPTION = "Installs ${systemd_system_unitdir}/<service>.service.d/memory-control.conf \
+drop-in files that apply MemoryMax/MemoryHigh cgroup v2 limits to the services \
+listed in MEMORY_CONTROL_SERVICES, without modifying the service recipes."
+HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/ishaandesai23/memory-control-config"
+SECTION = "base"
+LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COMMON_LICENSE_DIR}/Apache-2.0;md5=89aea4e17d99a7cacdbeed46a0096b10"
+
+inherit allarch systemd
+
+# The drop-ins only mean anything under systemd. OpenBMC selects systemd via
+# INIT_MANAGER rather than DISTRO_FEATURES, so accept either.
+python __anonymous() {
+    if (d.getVar('INIT_MANAGER') != 'systemd'
+            and 'systemd' not in (d.getVar('DISTRO_FEATURES') or '').split()):
+        raise bb.parse.SkipRecipe(
+            "memory-control-config requires systemd")
+}
+
+RDEPENDS:${PN} = "systemd"
+
+# Always produce a package, even when no services are configured, so an image
+# or packagegroup can depend on it unconditionally.
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
+
+# Nothing is fetched, unpacked, configured or compiled: every file is generated
+# in do_install from MEMORY_CONTROL_SERVICES.
+do_configure[noexec] = "1"
+do_compile[noexec] = "1"
+do_install[dirs] = "${D}"
+do_install[vardeps] += "MEMORY_CONTROL_SERVICES"
+
+
+# Per-service memory limits.  <unit>:<limit>[:<oom_policy>]
+#   <unit>        systemd service name (the .service suffix is optional)
+#   <limit>       raw bytes, or a K/M/G[B] suffix (e.g. 512M, 256K, 1G)
+#   <oom_policy>  "default" (bare limits) or "kill" (adds OOMPolicy=continue
+#                 and OOMScoreAdjust=500)
+#
+# MemoryHigh is 70% of MemoryMax.
+#
+# Leave empty here and set from a distro/machine/product .bbappend:
+#     MEMORY_CONTROL_SERVICES:append = " webui:256M:kill inventory-sync:128M"
+
+MEMORY_CONTROL_SERVICES ??= ""
+
+
+def mc_parse_services(d):
+    """Parse MEMORY_CONTROL_SERVICES into a list of
+    (unit, entry, bytes_max, bytes_high, oom_policy) tuples.
+    Calls bb.fatal on any malformed entry so a typo fails the build.
+    """
+    import re
+
+    size_units = {
+        '':  1,           'B':  1,
+        'K': 1024,        'KB': 1024,
+        'M': 1024 ** 2,   'MB': 1024 ** 2,
+        'G': 1024 ** 3,   'GB': 1024 ** 3,
+    }
+    size_re = re.compile(r'^(\d+)([A-Za-z]*)$')
+
+    result = []
+    for entry in (d.getVar('MEMORY_CONTROL_SERVICES') or '').split():
+        parts = entry.split(':')
+        if not (2 <= len(parts) <= 3):
+            bb.fatal("memory-control-config: malformed entry '%s'; "
+                     "expected <unit>:<limit>[:<oom_policy>]" % entry)
+
+        unit       = parts[0].strip()
+        limit_str  = parts[1].strip()
+        oom_policy = parts[2].strip().lower() if len(parts) == 3 else 'default'
+
+        if not unit.endswith('.service'):
+            unit += '.service'
+
+        if oom_policy not in ('default', 'kill'):
+            bb.fatal("memory-control-config: OOM policy '%s' for '%s' is "
+                     "invalid; use 'default' or 'kill'" % (oom_policy, unit))
+
+        m = size_re.match(limit_str)
+        if not m:
+            bb.fatal("memory-control-config: limit '%s' for '%s' is not a "
+                     "valid size (use raw bytes or a K/M/G[B] suffix)"
+                     % (limit_str, unit))
+
+        number, suffix = m.group(1), m.group(2).upper()
+        if suffix not in size_units:
+            bb.fatal("memory-control-config: unknown size suffix '%s' in "
+                     "'%s' for '%s'" % (m.group(2), limit_str, unit))
+
+        bytes_max = int(number) * size_units[suffix]
+        if bytes_max <= 0:
+            bb.fatal("memory-control-config: limit '%s' for '%s' must be "
+                     "greater than zero" % (limit_str, unit))
+
+        bytes_high = bytes_max * 7 // 10
+        result.append((unit, entry, bytes_max, bytes_high, oom_policy))
+
+    return result
+
+
+python do_install() {
+    import os
+
+    entries = mc_parse_services(d)
+    if not entries:
+        bb.note("memory-control-config: MEMORY_CONTROL_SERVICES is empty; "
+                "nothing to install")
+        return
+
+    destdir      = d.getVar('D')
+    unitdir      = d.getVar('systemd_system_unitdir')
+    pn           = d.getVar('PN')
+
+    for unit, entry, bytes_max, bytes_high, oom_policy in entries:
+        dropin_dir = os.path.join(destdir + unitdir, unit + '.d')
+        os.makedirs(dropin_dir, exist_ok=True)
+        dropin_path = os.path.join(dropin_dir, 'memory-control.conf')
+
+        with open(dropin_path, 'w') as f:
+            f.write('# generated by %s\n' % pn)
+            f.write('# entry: %s\n' % entry)
+            f.write('[Service]\n')
+            f.write('MemoryMax=%d\n'  % bytes_max)
+            f.write('MemoryHigh=%d\n' % bytes_high)
+            f.write('MemorySwapMax=0\n')
+            if oom_policy == 'kill':
+                f.write('OOMPolicy=continue\n')
+                f.write('OOMScoreAdjust=500\n')
+
+        bb.note("memory-control-config: wrote %s (%s, policy=%s)"
+                % (dropin_path, entry, oom_policy))
+}
+
+FILES:${PN} += "${systemd_system_unitdir}"