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diff --git a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt index 1c07547d3f81..58f32c166fac 100644 --- a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt @@ -207,12 +207,6 @@ exceeded. The memory.stat file gives accounting information. Now, the number of caches, RSS and Active pages/Inactive pages are shown. -The memory.force_empty gives an interface to drop *all* charges by force. - -# echo 1 > memory.force_empty - -will drop all charges in cgroup. Currently, this is maintained for test. - 4. Testing Balbir posted lmbench, AIM9, LTP and vmmstress results [10] and [11]. @@ -242,8 +236,10 @@ reclaimed. A cgroup can be removed by rmdir, but as discussed in sections 4.1 and 4.2, a cgroup might have some charge associated with it, even though all -tasks have migrated away from it. Such charges are automatically dropped at -rmdir() if there are no tasks. +tasks have migrated away from it. +Such charges are moved to its parent as much as possible and freed if parent +is full. Both of RSS and CACHES are moved to parent. +If both of them are busy, rmdir() returns -EBUSY. 5. TODO |