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diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt index f4f5ee97d4db..6eb1a97e88ce 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) |