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authorChris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>2009-04-03 02:29:05 -0700
committerChris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>2009-04-03 02:29:05 -0700
commit65127d28e312bb6b38ce84a7bb71d762ef63ad4c (patch)
treed5fdf52a2d0731f7fab0ce0ed394faac50b04fbc /Documentation/cgroups
parentb8bb76713ec50df2f11efee386e16f93d51e1076 (diff)
parent8fe74cf053de7ad2124a894996f84fa890a81093 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into merge
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cgroups')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt26
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt20
2 files changed, 41 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
index 93feb844448..4ea852345a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
@@ -333,12 +333,23 @@ The "xxx" is not interpreted by the cgroup code, but will appear in
To mount a cgroup hierarchy with just the cpuset and numtasks
subsystems, type:
-# mount -t cgroup -o cpuset,numtasks hier1 /dev/cgroup
+# mount -t cgroup -o cpuset,memory hier1 /dev/cgroup
To change the set of subsystems bound to a mounted hierarchy, just
remount with different options:
+# mount -o remount,cpuset,ns hier1 /dev/cgroup
-# mount -o remount,cpuset,ns /dev/cgroup
+Now memory is removed from the hierarchy and ns is added.
+
+Note this will add ns to the hierarchy but won't remove memory or
+cpuset, because the new options are appended to the old ones:
+# mount -o remount,ns /dev/cgroup
+
+To Specify a hierarchy's release_agent:
+# mount -t cgroup -o cpuset,release_agent="/sbin/cpuset_release_agent" \
+ xxx /dev/cgroup
+
+Note that specifying 'release_agent' more than once will return failure.
Note that changing the set of subsystems is currently only supported
when the hierarchy consists of a single (root) cgroup. Supporting
@@ -349,6 +360,11 @@ Then under /dev/cgroup you can find a tree that corresponds to the
tree of the cgroups in the system. For instance, /dev/cgroup
is the cgroup that holds the whole system.
+If you want to change the value of release_agent:
+# echo "/sbin/new_release_agent" > /dev/cgroup/release_agent
+
+It can also be changed via remount.
+
If you want to create a new cgroup under /dev/cgroup:
# cd /dev/cgroup
# mkdir my_cgroup
@@ -476,11 +492,13 @@ cgroup->parent is still valid. (Note - can also be called for a
newly-created cgroup if an error occurs after this subsystem's
create() method has been called for the new cgroup).
-void pre_destroy(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp);
+int pre_destroy(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp);
Called before checking the reference count on each subsystem. This may
be useful for subsystems which have some extra references even if
-there are not tasks in the cgroup.
+there are not tasks in the cgroup. If pre_destroy() returns error code,
+rmdir() will fail with it. From this behavior, pre_destroy() can be
+called multiple times against a cgroup.
int can_attach(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp,
struct task_struct *task)
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt
index 523a9c16c40..8a11caf417a 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memcg_test.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
Memory Resource Controller(Memcg) Implementation Memo.
-Last Updated: 2009/1/19
+Last Updated: 2009/1/20
Base Kernel Version: based on 2.6.29-rc2.
Because VM is getting complex (one of reasons is memcg...), memcg's behavior
@@ -360,3 +360,21 @@ Under below explanation, we assume CONFIG_MEM_RES_CTRL_SWAP=y.
# kill malloc task.
Of course, tmpfs v.s. swapoff test should be tested, too.
+
+ 9.8 OOM-Killer
+ Out-of-memory caused by memcg's limit will kill tasks under
+ the memcg. When hierarchy is used, a task under hierarchy
+ will be killed by the kernel.
+ In this case, panic_on_oom shouldn't be invoked and tasks
+ in other groups shouldn't be killed.
+
+ It's not difficult to cause OOM under memcg as following.
+ Case A) when you can swapoff
+ #swapoff -a
+ #echo 50M > /memory.limit_in_bytes
+ run 51M of malloc
+
+ Case B) when you use mem+swap limitation.
+ #echo 50M > memory.limit_in_bytes
+ #echo 50M > memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes
+ run 51M of malloc