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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-09 15:03:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-06-09 15:03:33 -0700
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Merge branch 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: "A lot of activities on cgroup side. Heavy restructuring including locking simplification took place to improve the code base and enable implementation of the unified hierarchy, which currently exists behind a __DEVEL__ mount option. The core support is mostly complete but individual controllers need further work. To explain the design and rationales of the the unified hierarchy Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt is added. Another notable change is css (cgroup_subsys_state - what each controller uses to identify and interact with a cgroup) iteration update. This is part of continuing updates on css object lifetime and visibility. cgroup started with reference count draining on removal way back and is now reaching a point where csses behave and are iterated like normal refcnted objects albeit with some complexities to allow distinguishing the state where they're being deleted. The css iteration update isn't taken advantage of yet but is planned to be used to simplify memcg significantly" * 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (77 commits) cgroup: disallow disabled controllers on the default hierarchy cgroup: don't destroy the default root cgroup: disallow debug controller on the default hierarchy cgroup: clean up MAINTAINERS entries cgroup: implement css_tryget() device_cgroup: use css_has_online_children() instead of has_children() cgroup: convert cgroup_has_live_children() into css_has_online_children() cgroup: use CSS_ONLINE instead of CGRP_DEAD cgroup: iterate cgroup_subsys_states directly cgroup: introduce CSS_RELEASED and reduce css iteration fallback window cgroup: move cgroup->serial_nr into cgroup_subsys_state cgroup: link all cgroup_subsys_states in their sibling lists cgroup: move cgroup->sibling and ->children into cgroup_subsys_state cgroup: remove cgroup->parent device_cgroup: remove direct access to cgroup->children memcg: update memcg_has_children() to use css_next_child() memcg: remove tasks/children test from mem_cgroup_force_empty() cgroup: remove css_parent() cgroup: skip refcnting on normal root csses and cgrp_dfl_root self css cgroup: use cgroup->self.refcnt for cgroup refcnting ...
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@@ -458,15 +458,11 @@ About use_hierarchy, see Section 6.
5.1 force_empty
memory.force_empty interface is provided to make cgroup's memory usage empty.
- You can use this interface only when the cgroup has no tasks.
When writing anything to this
# echo 0 > memory.force_empty
- 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 (if use_hierarchy==1) or root (if use_hierarchy==0) and this
- cgroup will be empty.
+ the cgroup will be reclaimed and as many pages reclaimed as possible.
The typical use case for this interface is before calling rmdir().
Because rmdir() moves all pages to parent, some out-of-use page caches can be