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diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index 6a066a270fc5..dd88540bb995 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -376,14 +376,15 @@ cgroup might have some charge associated with it, even though all tasks have migrated away from it. (because we charge against pages, not against tasks.) -Such charges are freed or moved to their parent. At moving, both of RSS -and CACHES are moved to parent. -rmdir() may return -EBUSY if freeing/moving fails. See 5.1 also. +We move the stats to root (if use_hierarchy==0) or parent (if +use_hierarchy==1), and no change on the charge except uncharging +from the child. Charges recorded in swap information is not updated at removal of cgroup. Recorded information is discarded and a cgroup which uses swap (swapcache) will be charged as a new owner of it. +About use_hierarchy, see Section 6. 5. Misc. interfaces. @@ -396,13 +397,15 @@ will be charged as a new owner of it. Almost all pages tracked by this memory cgroup will be unmapped and freed. Some pages cannot be freed because they are locked or in-use. Such pages are - moved to parent and this cgroup will be empty. This may return -EBUSY if - VM is too busy to free/move all pages immediately. + moved to parent(if use_hierarchy==1) or root (if use_hierarchy==0) and this + cgroup will be empty. Typical use case of this interface is that calling this before 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. + About use_hierarchy, see Section 6. + 5.2 stat file memory.stat file includes following statistics |