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diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt index d9014aa0eb68..d9e5d6f41b92 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ CGROUPS ------- -Written by Paul Menage <menage@google.com> based on Documentation/cpusets.txt +Written by Paul Menage <menage@google.com> based on +Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt Original copyright statements from cpusets.txt: Portions Copyright (C) 2004 BULL SA. @@ -68,7 +69,7 @@ On their own, the only use for cgroups is for simple job tracking. The intention is that other subsystems hook into the generic cgroup support to provide new attributes for cgroups, such as accounting/limiting the resources which processes in a cgroup can -access. For example, cpusets (see Documentation/cpusets.txt) allows +access. For example, cpusets (see Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt) allows you to associate a set of CPUs and a set of memory nodes with the tasks in each cgroup. @@ -227,7 +228,6 @@ Each cgroup is represented by a directory in the cgroup file system containing the following files describing that cgroup: - tasks: list of tasks (by pid) attached to that cgroup - - releasable flag: cgroup currently removeable? - notify_on_release flag: run the release agent on exit? - release_agent: the path to use for release notifications (this file exists in the top cgroup only) @@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ Now you want to do something with this cgroup. In this directory you can find several files: # ls -notify_on_release releasable tasks +notify_on_release tasks (plus whatever files added by the attached subsystems) Now attach your shell to this cgroup: @@ -479,7 +479,6 @@ 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); -(cgroup_mutex held by caller) Called before checking the reference count on each subsystem. This may be useful for subsystems which have some extra references even if @@ -498,6 +497,7 @@ remain valid while the caller holds cgroup_mutex. void attach(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cgroup *old_cgrp, struct task_struct *task) +(cgroup_mutex held by caller) Called after the task has been attached to the cgroup, to allow any post-attachment activity that requires memory allocations or blocking. @@ -511,6 +511,7 @@ void exit(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct task_struct *task) Called during task exit. int populate(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp) +(cgroup_mutex held by caller) Called after creation of a cgroup to allow a subsystem to populate the cgroup directory with file entries. The subsystem should make @@ -520,6 +521,7 @@ method can return an error code, the error code is currently not always handled well. void post_clone(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp) +(cgroup_mutex held by caller) Called at the end of cgroup_clone() to do any paramater initialization which might be required before a task could attach. For @@ -527,7 +529,7 @@ example in cpusets, no task may attach before 'cpus' and 'mems' are set up. void bind(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *root) -(cgroup_mutex held by caller) +(cgroup_mutex and ss->hierarchy_mutex held by caller) Called when a cgroup subsystem is rebound to a different hierarchy and root cgroup. Currently this will only involve movement between |