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authorJohannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>2016-02-16 19:21:14 +0100
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2016-02-16 19:26:02 +0100
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cgroup: document cgroup_no_v1=
Add cgroup_no_v1= to kernel-parameters.txt, and a small blurb to cgroup-v2.txt section about transitioning from cgroup to cgroup2. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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@@ -132,6 +132,12 @@ strongly discouraged for production use. It is recommended to decide
the hierarchies and controller associations before starting using the
controllers after system boot.
+During transition to v2, system management software might still
+automount the v1 cgroup filesystem and so hijack all controllers
+during boot, before manual intervention is possible. To make testing
+and experimenting easier, the kernel parameter cgroup_no_v1= allows
+disabling controllers in v1 and make them always available in v2.
+
2-2. Organizing Processes