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.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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