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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>,
	Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/6] Documentation: update cgroup pid and cpuset information
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:12:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110315161218.817cd662.rdunlap@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110315134316.465b6e2c.rdunlap@xenotime.net>

From: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>

The cgroup documentation does not specify how a process can be removed from a
particular group.  This patch adds a note at the end of the simple example
about how this is done.  Also, some cgroups (like cpusets) require user input
before a new group can be used.  This is noted in the patch as well.

Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
---
Changes from V1:
 Rework the note about removing a process from a cgroup
 Add note about ns cgroup causing failure when moving processes between groups

 Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

--- lnx-2638-rc8.orig/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
+++ lnx-2638-rc8/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
@@ -349,6 +349,10 @@ To mount a cgroup hierarchy with all ava
 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
 
 # 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
 --------------------------------
 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-03-15 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20110315134316.465b6e2c.rdunlap@xenotime.net>
2011-03-15 23:11 ` [PATCH 2/6] Documentation: add devicetree docs index file Randy Dunlap
2011-03-15 23:11 ` [PATCH 3/6] Documentation: update header filename in CodingStyle Randy Dunlap
2011-03-16  5:13   ` Harry Wei
2011-03-15 23:12 ` [PATCH 4/6] Documentation: file handles are now freed Randy Dunlap
2011-03-15 23:12 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2011-03-15 23:12 ` [PATCH 6/6] sched.c: fix kernel-doc for runqueue_is_locked() Randy Dunlap
2011-03-16 13:56   ` [tip:sched/urgent] sched, kernel-doc: Fix runqueue_is_locked() description tip-bot for Randy Dunlap

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