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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-03-09 09:56:17 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-03-09 09:56:17 -0800
commit1a29e857507046e413ca7a4a7c9cd32fed9ea255 (patch)
tree5a46d9c4dcab39fc588a9ac2c9f5e4c866d41254 /Documentation/cgroup-v1
parentc4703acd6d4a58dc4b31ad2a8f8b14becb898d25 (diff)
parent4064174becc09a5a2385a27c8a6fd40888b0e13c (diff)
Merge tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A fairly routine cycle for docs - lots of typo fixes, some new documents, and more translations. There's also some LICENSES adjustments from Thomas" * tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (74 commits) docs: Bring some order to filesystem documentation Documentation/locking/lockdep: Drop last two chars of sample states doc: rcu: Suspicious RCU usage is a warning docs: driver-api: iio: fix errors in documentation Documentation/process/howto: Update for 4.x -> 5.x versioning docs: Explicitly state that the 'Fixes:' tag shouldn't split lines doc: security: Add kern-doc for lsm_hooks.h doc: sctp: Merge and clean up rst files Docs: Correct /proc/stat path scripts/spdxcheck.py: fix C++ comment style detection doc: fix typos in license-rules.rst Documentation: fix admin-guide/README.rst minimum gcc version requirement doc: process: complete removal of info about -git patches doc: translations: sync translations 'remove info about -git patches' perf-security: wrap paragraphs on 72 columns perf-security: elaborate on perf_events/Perf privileged users perf-security: document collected perf_events/Perf data categories perf-security: document perf_events/Perf resource control sysfs.txt: add note on available attribute macros docs: kernel-doc: typo "if ... if" -> "if ... is" ...
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diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt
index a347fc9293e5..a33cedf85427 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Brief summary of control files.
memory.soft_limit_in_bytes # set/show soft limit of memory usage
memory.stat # show various statistics
memory.use_hierarchy # set/show hierarchical account enabled
- memory.force_empty # trigger forced move charge to parent
+ memory.force_empty # trigger forced page reclaim
memory.pressure_level # set memory pressure notifications
memory.swappiness # set/show swappiness parameter of vmscan
(See sysctl's vm.swappiness)
@@ -459,8 +459,9 @@ About use_hierarchy, see Section 6.
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
- moved to the parent. If you want to avoid that, force_empty will be useful.
+ Though rmdir() offlines memcg, but the memcg may still stay there due to
+ charged file caches. Some out-of-use page caches may keep charged until
+ memory pressure happens. If you want to avoid that, force_empty will be useful.
Also, note that when memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes is set the charges due to
kernel pages will still be seen. This is not considered a failure and the