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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-03-09 18:56:17 +0100 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2019-03-09 18:56:17 +0100 |
commit | 1a29e857507046e413ca7a4a7c9cd32fed9ea255 (patch) | |
tree | 5a46d9c4dcab39fc588a9ac2c9f5e4c866d41254 /Documentation/cgroup-v1 | |
parent | Merge tag 'printk-for-5.1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/p... (diff) | |
parent | docs: Bring some order to filesystem documentation (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A fairly routine cycle for docs - lots of typo fixes, some new
documents, and more translations. There's also some LICENSES
adjustments from Thomas"
* tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (74 commits)
docs: Bring some order to filesystem documentation
Documentation/locking/lockdep: Drop last two chars of sample states
doc: rcu: Suspicious RCU usage is a warning
docs: driver-api: iio: fix errors in documentation
Documentation/process/howto: Update for 4.x -> 5.x versioning
docs: Explicitly state that the 'Fixes:' tag shouldn't split lines
doc: security: Add kern-doc for lsm_hooks.h
doc: sctp: Merge and clean up rst files
Docs: Correct /proc/stat path
scripts/spdxcheck.py: fix C++ comment style detection
doc: fix typos in license-rules.rst
Documentation: fix admin-guide/README.rst minimum gcc version requirement
doc: process: complete removal of info about -git patches
doc: translations: sync translations 'remove info about -git patches'
perf-security: wrap paragraphs on 72 columns
perf-security: elaborate on perf_events/Perf privileged users
perf-security: document collected perf_events/Perf data categories
perf-security: document perf_events/Perf resource control
sysfs.txt: add note on available attribute macros
docs: kernel-doc: typo "if ... if" -> "if ... is"
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cgroup-v1')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt index a347fc9293e5..a33cedf85427 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Brief summary of control files. memory.soft_limit_in_bytes # set/show soft limit of memory usage memory.stat # show various statistics memory.use_hierarchy # set/show hierarchical account enabled - memory.force_empty # trigger forced move charge to parent + memory.force_empty # trigger forced page reclaim memory.pressure_level # set memory pressure notifications memory.swappiness # set/show swappiness parameter of vmscan (See sysctl's vm.swappiness) @@ -459,8 +459,9 @@ About use_hierarchy, see Section 6. the cgroup will be reclaimed and as many pages reclaimed as possible. The typical use case for this interface is before calling rmdir(). - Because rmdir() moves all pages to parent, some out-of-use page caches can be - moved to the parent. If you want to avoid that, force_empty will be useful. + Though rmdir() offlines memcg, but the memcg may still stay there due to + charged file caches. Some out-of-use page caches may keep charged until + memory pressure happens. If you want to avoid that, force_empty will be useful. Also, note that when memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes is set the charges due to kernel pages will still be seen. This is not considered a failure and the |