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+++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Brief summary of control files.
memory.soft_limit_in_bytes # set/show soft limit of memory usage
memory.stat # show various statistics
memory.use_hierarchy # set/show hierarchical account enabled
- memory.force_empty # trigger forced move charge to parent
+ memory.force_empty # trigger forced page reclaim
memory.pressure_level # set memory pressure notifications
memory.swappiness # set/show swappiness parameter of vmscan
(See sysctl's vm.swappiness)
@@ -267,11 +267,11 @@ When oom event notifier is registered, event will be delivered.
Other lock order is following:
PG_locked.
mm->page_table_lock
- zone_lru_lock
+ pgdat->lru_lock
lock_page_cgroup.
In many cases, just lock_page_cgroup() is called.
per-zone-per-cgroup LRU (cgroup's private LRU) is just guarded by
- zone_lru_lock, it has no lock of its own.
+ pgdat->lru_lock, it has no lock of its own.
2.7 Kernel Memory Extension (CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM)
@@ -459,8 +459,9 @@ About use_hierarchy, see Section 6.
the cgroup will be reclaimed and as many pages reclaimed as possible.
The typical use case for this interface is before calling rmdir().
- Because rmdir() moves all pages to parent, some out-of-use page caches can be
- moved to the parent. If you want to avoid that, force_empty will be useful.
+ Though rmdir() offlines memcg, but the memcg may still stay there due to
+ charged file caches. Some out-of-use page caches may keep charged until
+ memory pressure happens. If you want to avoid that, force_empty will be useful.
Also, note that when memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes is set the charges due to
kernel pages will still be seen. This is not considered a failure and the