Commit 980660ca authored by Bagas Sanjaya's avatar Bagas Sanjaya Committed by Tejun Heo

docs: cgroup-v1: use numbered lists for user interface setup

Setup instructions for memory resource controller UI uses a mix of
section headings and normal paragraphs, whereas numbered lists are
better fit for this purpose.

While at it, also slightly reword the instructions and add reference to
"Why are cgroups needed?" in the main cgroups documentation.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
parent da3ad2e1
......@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ access. For example, cpusets (see Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rs
you to associate a set of CPUs and a set of memory nodes with the
tasks in each cgroup.
.. _cgroups-why-needed:
1.2 Why are cgroups needed ?
----------------------------
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......@@ -387,30 +387,30 @@ U != 0, K >= U:
3. User Interface
=================
3.0. Configuration
------------------
a. Enable CONFIG_CGROUPS
b. Enable CONFIG_MEMCG
3.1. Prepare the cgroups (see cgroups.txt, Why are cgroups needed?)
-------------------------------------------------------------------
To use the user interface:
::
1. Enable CONFIG_CGROUPS and CONFIG_MEMCG options
2. Prepare the cgroups (see :ref:`Why are cgroups needed?
<cgroups-why-needed>` for the background information)::
# mount -t tmpfs none /sys/fs/cgroup
# mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory
# mount -t cgroup none /sys/fs/cgroup/memory -o memory
3.2. Make the new group and move bash into it::
3. Make the new group and move bash into it::
# mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/0
# echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/0/tasks
Since now we're in the 0 cgroup, we can alter the memory limit::
4. Since now we're in the 0 cgroup, we can alter the memory limit::
# echo 4M > /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/0/memory.limit_in_bytes
The limit can now be queried::
# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/0/memory.limit_in_bytes
4194304
.. note::
We can use a suffix (k, K, m, M, g or G) to indicate values in kilo,
mega or gigabytes. (Here, Kilo, Mega, Giga are Kibibytes, Mebibytes,
......@@ -422,10 +422,6 @@ Since now we're in the 0 cgroup, we can alter the memory limit::
.. note::
We cannot set limits on the root cgroup any more.
::
# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/0/memory.limit_in_bytes
4194304
We can check the usage::
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