On 2016/5/5 16:32, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Thu 05-05-16 16:15:01, Qiang Huang wrote: >> We don't have this restriction for a long time, docs should >> be fixed. >> >> Signed-off-by: Qiang Huang <h.huangqiang@xxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt | 8 +++----- >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt >> index ff71e16..d45b201 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt >> @@ -281,11 +281,9 @@ different than user memory, since it can't be swapped out, which makes it >> possible to DoS the system by consuming too much of this precious resource. >> >> Kernel memory won't be accounted at all until limit on a group is set. This >> -allows for existing setups to continue working without disruption. The limit >> -cannot be set if the cgroup have children, or if there are already tasks in the >> -cgroup. Attempting to set the limit under those conditions will return -EBUSY. >> -When use_hierarchy == 1 and a group is accounted, its children will >> -automatically be accounted regardless of their limit value. >> +allows for existing setups to continue working without disruption. When >> +use_hierarchy == 1 and a group is accounted, its children will automatically >> +be accounted regardless of their limit value. > The restriction is not there anymore because the accounting is enabled > by default even in the cgroup v1 - see b313aeee2509 ("mm: memcontrol: > enable kmem accounting for all cgroups in the legacy hierarchy"). So > this _whole_ paragraph could see some update. Sorry for the delay. Thanks for the hint, I'll sent a new patch soon. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html