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-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/cpuacct.txt7
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diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
index cd67e90003c0..60d82e1e498d 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
@@ -593,6 +593,15 @@ there are not tasks in the cgroup. If pre_destroy() returns error code,
rmdir() will fail with it. From this behavior, pre_destroy() can be
called multiple times against a cgroup.
+int allow_attach(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *task)
+(cgroup_mutex held by caller)
+
+Called prior to moving a task into a cgroup; if the subsystem
+returns an error, this will abort the attach operation. Used
+to extend the permission checks - if all subsystems in a cgroup
+return 0, the attach will be allowed to proceed, even if the
+default permission check (root or same user) fails.
+
int can_attach(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp,
struct task_struct *task)
(cgroup_mutex held by caller)
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cpuacct.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cpuacct.txt
index 9d73cc0cadb9..e21a932059fb 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/cpuacct.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cpuacct.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,13 @@ system: Time spent by tasks of the cgroup in kernel mode.
user and system are in USER_HZ unit.
+cpuacct.cpufreq file gives CPU time (in nanoseconds) spent at each CPU
+frequency. Platform hooks must be implemented inorder to properly track
+time at each CPU frequency.
+
+cpuacct.power file gives CPU power consumed (in milliWatt seconds). Platform
+must provide and implement power callback functions.
+
cpuacct controller uses percpu_counter interface to collect user and
system times. This has two side effects: