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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cgroups')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/freezer-subsystem.txt | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt | 27 |
4 files changed, 21 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt index 12686bec3..52fa9f353 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/blkio-controller.txt @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ cgroups. Here is what you can do. - At macro level, first dd should finish first. To get more precise data, keep on looking at (with the help of script), at blkio.disk_time and blkio.disk_sectors files of both test1 and test2 groups. This will tell how - much disk time (in milli seconds), each group got and how many secotors each + much disk time (in milliseconds), each group got and how many sectors each group dispatched to the disk. We provide fairness in terms of disk time, so ideally io.disk_time of cgroups should be in proportion to the weight. diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt index f935fac1e..c6256ae98 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt @@ -637,6 +637,10 @@ void exit(struct task_struct *task) Called during task exit. +void free(struct task_struct *task) + +Called when the task_struct is freed. + void bind(struct cgroup *root) (cgroup_mutex held by caller) diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/freezer-subsystem.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/freezer-subsystem.txt index c96a72cbb..e831cb2b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/freezer-subsystem.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/freezer-subsystem.txt @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ being frozen. This allows the bash example above and gdb to run as expected. The cgroup freezer is hierarchical. Freezing a cgroup freezes all -tasks beloning to the cgroup and all its descendant cgroups. Each +tasks belonging to the cgroup and all its descendant cgroups. Each cgroup has its own state (self-state) and the state inherited from the parent (parent-state). Iff both states are THAWED, the cgroup is THAWED. diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt index e0975c2cf..781b1d475 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt @@ -107,12 +107,6 @@ root of unified hierarchy can be bound to other hierarchies. This allows mixing unified hierarchy with the traditional multiple hierarchies in a fully backward compatible way. -For development purposes, the following boot parameter makes all -controllers to appear on the unified hierarchy whether supported or -not. - - cgroup__DEVEL__legacy_files_on_dfl - A controller can be moved across hierarchies only after the controller is no longer referenced in its current hierarchy. Because per-cgroup controller states are destroyed asynchronously and controllers may @@ -341,11 +335,11 @@ is riddled with issues. unnecessarily complicated and probably done this way because event delivery itself was expensive. -Unified hierarchy implements an interface file "cgroup.populated" -which can be used to monitor whether the cgroup's subhierarchy has -tasks in it or not. Its value is 0 if there is no task in the cgroup -and its descendants; otherwise, 1. poll and [id]notify events are -triggered when the value changes. +Unified hierarchy implements "populated" field in "cgroup.events" +interface file which can be used to monitor whether the cgroup's +subhierarchy has tasks in it or not. Its value is 0 if there is no +task in the cgroup and its descendants; otherwise, 1. poll and +[id]notify events are triggered when the value changes. This is significantly lighter and simpler and trivially allows delegating management of subhierarchy - subhierarchy monitoring can @@ -374,6 +368,10 @@ supported and the interface files "release_agent" and - The "cgroup.clone_children" file is removed. +- /proc/PID/cgroup keeps reporting the cgroup that a zombie belonged + to before exiting. If the cgroup is removed before the zombie is + reaped, " (deleted)" is appeneded to the path. + 5-3. Controller File Conventions @@ -435,6 +433,11 @@ may be specified in any order and not all pairs have to be specified. the first entry in the file. Specific entries can use "default" as its value to indicate inheritance of the default value. +- For events which are not very high frequency, an interface file + "events" should be created which lists event key value pairs. + Whenever a notifiable event happens, file modified event should be + generated on the file. + 5-4. Per-Controller Changes @@ -491,7 +494,7 @@ may be specified in any order and not all pairs have to be specified. ${R|W}BPS are read/write bytes per second and ${R|W}IOPS are read/write IOs per second. "max" indicates no limit. Writing to the file follows the same format but the individual - settings may be ommitted or specified in any order. + settings may be omitted or specified in any order. This file is available only on non-root cgroups. |