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diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt index 638bf17ff869..821de56d1580 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt @@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ CONTENTS: 2.1 Basic Usage 2.2 Attaching processes 2.3 Mounting hierarchies by name - 2.4 Notification API 3. Kernel API 3.1 Overview 3.2 Synchronization @@ -472,25 +471,6 @@ you give a subsystem a name. The name of the subsystem appears as part of the hierarchy description in /proc/mounts and /proc/<pid>/cgroups. -2.4 Notification API --------------------- - -There is mechanism which allows to get notifications about changing -status of a cgroup. - -To register a new notification handler you need to: - - create a file descriptor for event notification using eventfd(2); - - open a control file to be monitored (e.g. memory.usage_in_bytes); - - write "<event_fd> <control_fd> <args>" to cgroup.event_control. - Interpretation of args is defined by control file implementation; - -eventfd will be woken up by control file implementation or when the -cgroup is removed. - -To unregister a notification handler just close eventfd. - -NOTE: Support of notifications should be implemented for the control -file. See documentation for the subsystem. 3. Kernel API ============= |