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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/index.rst index 226f64473e8e..99fbc8a64ba9 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/index.rst @@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Control Groups version 1 hugetlb memcg_test memory + misc net_cls net_prio pids diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/misc.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/misc.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..661614c24df3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/misc.rst @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@ +=============== +Misc controller +=============== +Please refer "Misc" documentation in Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst index 64c62b979f2f..b1e81aa8598a 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst @@ -65,8 +65,11 @@ v1 is available under :ref:`Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/index.rst <cgrou 5-7-1. RDMA Interface Files 5-8. HugeTLB 5.8-1. HugeTLB Interface Files - 5-8. Misc - 5-8-1. perf_event + 5-9. Misc + 5.9-1 Miscellaneous cgroup Interface Files + 5.9-2 Migration and Ownership + 5-10. Others + 5-10-1. perf_event 5-N. Non-normative information 5-N-1. CPU controller root cgroup process behaviour 5-N-2. IO controller root cgroup process behaviour @@ -2171,6 +2174,72 @@ HugeTLB Interface Files Misc ---- +The Miscellaneous cgroup provides the resource limiting and tracking +mechanism for the scalar resources which cannot be abstracted like the other +cgroup resources. Controller is enabled by the CONFIG_CGROUP_MISC config +option. + +A resource can be added to the controller via enum misc_res_type{} in the +include/linux/misc_cgroup.h file and the corresponding name via misc_res_name[] +in the kernel/cgroup/misc.c file. Provider of the resource must set its +capacity prior to using the resource by calling misc_cg_set_capacity(). + +Once a capacity is set then the resource usage can be updated using charge and +uncharge APIs. All of the APIs to interact with misc controller are in +include/linux/misc_cgroup.h. + +Misc Interface Files +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Miscellaneous controller provides 3 interface files. If two misc resources (res_a and res_b) are registered then: + + misc.capacity + A read-only flat-keyed file shown only in the root cgroup. It shows + miscellaneous scalar resources available on the platform along with + their quantities:: + + $ cat misc.capacity + res_a 50 + res_b 10 + + misc.current + A read-only flat-keyed file shown in the non-root cgroups. It shows + the current usage of the resources in the cgroup and its children.:: + + $ cat misc.current + res_a 3 + res_b 0 + + misc.max + A read-write flat-keyed file shown in the non root cgroups. Allowed + maximum usage of the resources in the cgroup and its children.:: + + $ cat misc.max + res_a max + res_b 4 + + Limit can be set by:: + + # echo res_a 1 > misc.max + + Limit can be set to max by:: + + # echo res_a max > misc.max + + Limits can be set higher than the capacity value in the misc.capacity + file. + +Migration and Ownership +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +A miscellaneous scalar resource is charged to the cgroup in which it is used +first, and stays charged to that cgroup until that resource is freed. Migrating +a process to a different cgroup does not move the charge to the destination +cgroup where the process has moved. + +Others +------ + perf_event ~~~~~~~~~~ |