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-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt12
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt5
3 files changed, 24 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
index 44b8b7af8019..cbdfb7d9455b 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
@@ -349,6 +349,10 @@ To mount a cgroup hierarchy with all available subsystems, type:
The "xxx" is not interpreted by the cgroup code, but will appear in
/proc/mounts so may be any useful identifying string that you like.
+Note: Some subsystems do not work without some user input first. For instance,
+if cpusets are enabled the user will have to populate the cpus and mems files
+for each new cgroup created before that group can be used.
+
To mount a cgroup hierarchy with just the cpuset and memory
subsystems, type:
# mount -t cgroup -o cpuset,memory hier1 /dev/cgroup
@@ -426,6 +430,14 @@ You can attach the current shell task by echoing 0:
# echo 0 > tasks
+Note: Since every task is always a member of exactly one cgroup in each
+mounted hierarchy, to remove a task from its current cgroup you must
+move it into a new cgroup (possibly the root cgroup) by writing to the
+new cgroup's tasks file.
+
+Note: If the ns cgroup is active, moving a process to another cgroup can
+fail.
+
2.3 Mounting hierarchies by name
--------------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
index 5d0d5692a365..98a30829af7a 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ There are ways to query or modify cpusets:
- via the C library libcgroup.
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/libcg/)
- via the python application cset.
- (http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Cpuset)
+ (http://code.google.com/p/cpuset/)
The sched_setaffinity calls can also be done at the shell prompt using
SGI's runon or Robert Love's taskset. The mbind and set_mempolicy
@@ -725,13 +725,14 @@ Now you want to do something with this cpuset.
In this directory you can find several files:
# ls
-cpuset.cpu_exclusive cpuset.memory_spread_slab
-cpuset.cpus cpuset.mems
-cpuset.mem_exclusive cpuset.sched_load_balance
-cpuset.mem_hardwall cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level
-cpuset.memory_migrate notify_on_release
-cpuset.memory_pressure tasks
-cpuset.memory_spread_page
+cgroup.clone_children cpuset.memory_pressure
+cgroup.event_control cpuset.memory_spread_page
+cgroup.procs cpuset.memory_spread_slab
+cpuset.cpu_exclusive cpuset.mems
+cpuset.cpus cpuset.sched_load_balance
+cpuset.mem_exclusive cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level
+cpuset.mem_hardwall notify_on_release
+cpuset.memory_migrate tasks
Reading them will give you information about the state of this cpuset:
the CPUs and Memory Nodes it can use, the processes that are using
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
index 7781857dc940..b6ed61c95856 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -485,8 +485,9 @@ The feature can be disabled by
# echo 0 > memory.use_hierarchy
-NOTE1: Enabling/disabling will fail if the cgroup already has other
- cgroups created below it.
+NOTE1: Enabling/disabling will fail if either the cgroup already has other
+ cgroups created below it, or if the parent cgroup has use_hierarchy
+ enabled.
NOTE2: When panic_on_oom is set to "2", the whole system will panic in
case of an OOM event in any cgroup.