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diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt index ffec2416aa74..06eb6d957c83 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ Memory Resource Controller -NOTE: The Memory Resource Controller has been generically been referred - to as the memory controller in this document. Do not confuse memory - controller used here with the memory controller that is used in hardware. +NOTE: The Memory Resource Controller has generically been referred to as the + memory controller in this document. Do not confuse memory controller + used here with the memory controller that is used in hardware. (For editors) In this document: @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ behind this approach is that a cgroup that aggressively uses a shared page will eventually get charged for it (once it is uncharged from the cgroup that brought it in -- this will happen on memory pressure). -Exception: If CONFIG_CGROUP_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP is not used.. +Exception: If CONFIG_CGROUP_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_SWAP is not used. When you do swapoff and make swapped-out pages of shmem(tmpfs) to be backed into memory in force, charges for pages are accounted against the caller of swapoff rather than the users of shmem. @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ affecting global LRU, memory+swap limit is better than just limiting swap from OS point of view. * What happens when a cgroup hits memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes -When a cgroup his memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes, it's useless to do swap-out +When a cgroup hits memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes, it's useless to do swap-out in this cgroup. Then, swap-out will not be done by cgroup routine and file caches are dropped. But as mentioned above, global LRU can do swapout memory from it for sanity of the system's memory management state. You can't forbid @@ -491,13 +491,13 @@ The hierarchy is created by creating the appropriate cgroups in the cgroup filesystem. Consider for example, the following cgroup filesystem hierarchy - root + root / | \ - / | \ - a b c - | \ - | \ - d e + / | \ + a b c + | \ + | \ + d e In the diagram above, with hierarchical accounting enabled, all memory usage of e, is accounted to its ancestors up until the root (i.e, c and root), |