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authorAndrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>2009-04-13 14:39:58 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-13 15:04:30 -0700
commit5341cfab94ec05b8a45726f9fe15e71c0cd9b915 (patch)
tree356a84dcea116446e06bed9b5ab6eb2dc4eb2152 /Documentation/cgroups
parentbdff549ebeff92b1a6952e5501caf16a6f8898c8 (diff)
downloadlinux-5341cfab94ec05b8a45726f9fe15e71c0cd9b915.tar.bz2
res_counter: update documentation
After the introduction of resource counters hierarchies (28dbc4b6a01fb579a9441c7b81e3d3413dc452df) the prototypes of res_counter_init() and res_counter_charge() have been changed. Keep the documentation consistent with the actual function prototypes. Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cgroups')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/resource_counter.txt27
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/resource_counter.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/resource_counter.txt
index f196ac1d7d25..95b24d766eab 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/resource_counter.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/resource_counter.txt
@@ -47,13 +47,18 @@ to work with it.
2. Basic accounting routines
- a. void res_counter_init(struct res_counter *rc)
+ a. void res_counter_init(struct res_counter *rc,
+ struct res_counter *rc_parent)
Initializes the resource counter. As usual, should be the first
routine called for a new counter.
- b. int res_counter_charge[_locked]
- (struct res_counter *rc, unsigned long val)
+ The struct res_counter *parent can be used to define a hierarchical
+ child -> parent relationship directly in the res_counter structure,
+ NULL can be used to define no relationship.
+
+ c. int res_counter_charge(struct res_counter *rc, unsigned long val,
+ struct res_counter **limit_fail_at)
When a resource is about to be allocated it has to be accounted
with the appropriate resource counter (controller should determine
@@ -67,15 +72,25 @@ to work with it.
* if the charging is performed first, then it should be uncharged
on error path (if the one is called).
- c. void res_counter_uncharge[_locked]
+ If the charging fails and a hierarchical dependency exists, the
+ limit_fail_at parameter is set to the particular res_counter element
+ where the charging failed.
+
+ d. int res_counter_charge_locked
+ (struct res_counter *rc, unsigned long val)
+
+ The same as res_counter_charge(), but it must not acquire/release the
+ res_counter->lock internally (it must be called with res_counter->lock
+ held).
+
+ e. void res_counter_uncharge[_locked]
(struct res_counter *rc, unsigned long val)
When a resource is released (freed) it should be de-accounted
from the resource counter it was accounted to. This is called
"uncharging".
- The _locked routines imply that the res_counter->lock is taken.
-
+ The _locked routines imply that the res_counter->lock is taken.
2.1 Other accounting routines