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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cgroups')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt | 25 |
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt index f935fac1e73b..c6256ae9885b 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/unified-hierarchy.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt index 5c07337b51c1..781b1d475bcf 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 |