Add desprition of wipe_on_offline interface in cgroup documents.
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 9 +++++++++
Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt | 10 ++++++++++
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
index 0290c65..e4ef08c 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
@@ -1303,6 +1303,15 @@ PAGE_SIZE multiple when read back.
memory pressure happens. If you want to avoid that, force_empty will be
useful.
+ memory.wipe_on_offline
+
+ This is similar to force_empty, but it just does memory reclaim
+ asynchronously in css offline kworker.
+
+ Writing into 1 will enable it, disable it by writing into 0.
+
+ It would reclaim as much as possible memory just as what force_empty
does.
+
Usage Guidelines
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt
b/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt
index 8e2cb1d..1c6e1ca 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v1/memory.txt
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@ Brief summary of control files.
memory.stat # show various statistics
memory.use_hierarchy # set/show hierarchical account enabled
memory.force_empty # trigger forced page reclaim
+ memory.wipe_on_offline # trigger forced page reclaim when
offlining
memory.pressure_level # set memory pressure notifications
memory.swappiness # set/show swappiness parameter of vmscan
(See sysctl's vm.swappiness)
@@ -581,6 +582,15 @@ hierarchical_<counter>=<counter pages> N0=<node 0 pages>
N1=<node 1 pages> ...
The "total" count is sum of file + anon + unevictable.
+5.7 wipe_on_offline
+
+This is similar to force_empty, but it just does memory reclaim asynchronously
+in css offline kworker.
+
+Writing into 1 will enable it, disable it by writing into 0.
+
+It would reclaim as much as possible memory just as what force_empty does.
+
6. Hierarchy support
The memory controller supports a deep hierarchy and hierarchical accounting.
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1.8.3.1
