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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst index b1e81aa8598a..91cd601a1454 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst @@ -952,6 +952,21 @@ All cgroup core files are prefixed with "cgroup." it's possible to delete a frozen (and empty) cgroup, as well as create new sub-cgroups. + cgroup.kill + A write-only single value file which exists in non-root cgroups. + The only allowed value is "1". + + Writing "1" to the file causes the cgroup and all descendant cgroups to + be killed. This means that all processes located in the affected cgroup + tree will be killed via SIGKILL. + + Killing a cgroup tree will deal with concurrent forks appropriately and + is protected against migrations. + + In a threaded cgroup, writing this file fails with EOPNOTSUPP as + killing cgroups is a process directed operation, i.e. it affects + the whole thread-group. + Controllers =========== |