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Documentation: update cgroup pid and cpuset information
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The cgroup documentation does not specify how a process can be removed
from a particular group.  This patch adds a note at the end of the
simple example about how this is done.  Also, some cgroups (like
cpusets) require user input before a new group can be used.  This is
noted in the patch as well.

Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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khers authored and torvalds committed Mar 16, 2011
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Expand Up @@ -349,6 +349,10 @@ To mount a cgroup hierarchy with all available subsystems, type:
The "xxx" is not interpreted by the cgroup code, but will appear in
/proc/mounts so may be any useful identifying string that you like.

Note: Some subsystems do not work without some user input first. For instance,
if cpusets are enabled the user will have to populate the cpus and mems files
for each new cgroup created before that group can be used.

To mount a cgroup hierarchy with just the cpuset and memory
subsystems, type:
# mount -t cgroup -o cpuset,memory hier1 /dev/cgroup
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# echo 0 > tasks

Note: Since every task is always a member of exactly one cgroup in each
mounted hierarchy, to remove a task from its current cgroup you must
move it into a new cgroup (possibly the root cgroup) by writing to the
new cgroup's tasks file.

Note: If the ns cgroup is active, moving a process to another cgroup can
fail.

2.3 Mounting hierarchies by name
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