This bug affects JDKs < 15.

With recent runc as OCI runtime, --kernel-memory option is being ignored. I.e. even if you specify a value it'll not populate. The Linux kernel deprecated the feature and runc did so to. 'crun', another runtime is about to ignore the option too. References:
runc: https://github.com/opencontainers/runc/pull/2840
podman PR to remove (hide) the option: https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/12048

The effect of this is that container test TestDockerMemoryMetrics.java fails on recent docker (which uses runc by default). It also fails when run with podman and runc as runtime.

Failure looks like this:
========== NEW TEST CASE:      testKernelMemoryLimit, value = 100m
[COMMAND]
docker run --tty=true --rm --volume /disk/openjdk/upstream-sources/git/jdk11u/JTwork/classes/jdk/internal/platform/docker/TestDockerMemoryMetrics.d:/test-classes/ --kernel-memory=100m jdk-internal:test-metrics-memory /jdk/bin/java -cp /test-classes/ --add-exports java.base/jdk.internal.platform=ALL-UNNAMED -Djdk.test.docker.image.name=fedora -Djdk.test.docker.image.version=34 MetricsMemoryTester kernelmem 100m
[ELAPSED: 854 ms]
[STDERR]
WARNING: Specifying a kernel memory limit is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

[STDOUT]
[kernelmem, 100m]
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Kernel Memory limit not equal, expected : [104857600], got : [-1]
        at MetricsMemoryTester.testKernelMemoryLimit(MetricsMemoryTester.java:113)
        at MetricsMemoryTester.main(MetricsMemoryTester.java:38)


The stand-alone Docker/podman equivalent is:
$ docker run --kernel-memory 200m --rm -ti fedora:34 cat sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes
WARNING: Specifying a kernel memory limit is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
9223372036854771712

Note the huge value instead of the (previously) expected value of 209715200 for the kernel memory limit.

It doesn't affect JDK mainline as it has cgroups v2 support and the follow-up fix of that, JDK-8240189, included a fix for this issue. JDK-8240189 landed in JDK 15. In particular this hunk from JDK-8240189 needs backporting to older releases:

 public class MetricsMemoryTester {
+
+    public static final long UNLIMITED = -1;
+
     public static void main(String[] args) {
         System.out.println(Arrays.toString(args));
         switch (args[0]) {
@@ -115,13 +118,13 @@ public class MetricsMemoryTester {
             System.out.println("TEST PASSED!!!");
             long limit = getMemoryValue(value);
             long kmemlimit = mCgroupV1.getKernelMemoryLimit();
-            if (kmemlimit != 0 && limit != kmemlimit) {
+            if (kmemlimit != UNLIMITED && limit != kmemlimit) {
                 throw new RuntimeException("Kernel Memory limit not equal, expected : ["
                         + limit + "]" + ", got : ["
                         + kmemlimit + "]");
             }