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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-18 10:37:40 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-03-18 10:37:40 -0700
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Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (47 commits) doc: CONFIG_UNEVICTABLE_LRU doesn't exist anymore Update cpuset info & webiste for cgroups dcdbas: force SMI to happen when expected arch/arm/Kconfig: remove one to many l's in the word. asm-generic/user.h: Fix spelling in comment drm: fix printk typo 'sracth' Remove one to many n's in a word Documentation/filesystems/romfs.txt: fixing link to genromfs drivers:scsi Change printk typo initate -> initiate serial, pch uart: Remove duplicate inclusion of linux/pci.h header fs/eventpoll.c: fix spelling mm: Fix out-of-date comments which refers non-existent functions drm: Fix printk typo 'failled' coh901318.c: Change initate to initiate. mbox-db5500.c Change initate to initiate. edac: correct i82975x error-info reported edac: correct i82975x mci initialisation edac: correct commented info fs: update comments to point correct document target: remove duplicate include of target/target_core_device.h from drivers/target/target_core_hba.c ... Trivial conflict in fs/eventpoll.c (spelling vs addition)
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cgroups')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt5
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 10 deletions
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.