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+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt
@@ -376,14 +376,15 @@ cgroup might have some charge associated with it, even though all
tasks have migrated away from it. (because we charge against pages, not
against tasks.)
-Such charges are freed or moved to their parent. At moving, both of RSS
-and CACHES are moved to parent.
-rmdir() may return -EBUSY if freeing/moving fails. See 5.1 also.
+We move the stats to root (if use_hierarchy==0) or parent (if
+use_hierarchy==1), and no change on the charge except uncharging
+from the child.
Charges recorded in swap information is not updated at removal of cgroup.
Recorded information is discarded and a cgroup which uses swap (swapcache)
will be charged as a new owner of it.
+About use_hierarchy, see Section 6.
5. Misc. interfaces.
@@ -396,13 +397,15 @@ will be charged as a new owner of it.
Almost all pages tracked by this memory cgroup will be unmapped and freed.
Some pages cannot be freed because they are locked or in-use. Such pages are
- moved to parent and this cgroup will be empty. This may return -EBUSY if
- VM is too busy to free/move all pages immediately.
+ moved to parent(if use_hierarchy==1) or root (if use_hierarchy==0) and this
+ cgroup will be empty.
Typical use case of this interface is that calling this before 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.
+ About use_hierarchy, see Section 6.
+
5.2 stat file
memory.stat file includes following statistics