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author | Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2008-03-04 17:28:24 -0500 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-03-04 19:35:09 -0500 |
commit | fb78922ce9c71b24c4af1ffc9c3d60c57ac471fb (patch) | |
tree | c3d4217b33f6843171e487b993040edbfbdf3b22 /Documentation/controllers/memory.txt | |
parent | a10568733cdff03cac742955c7254585451f5431 (diff) |
Memory Resource Controller use strstrip while parsing arguments
The memory controller has a requirement that while writing values, we need
to use echo -n. This patch fixes the problem and makes the UI more consistent.
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/controllers/memory.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/controllers/memory.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt index 6015347b41e2..fba6af45225c 100644 --- a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt | |||
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ c. Enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_CONT | |||
164 | 164 | ||
165 | Since now we're in the 0 cgroup, | 165 | Since now we're in the 0 cgroup, |
166 | We can alter the memory limit: | 166 | We can alter the memory limit: |
167 | # echo -n 4M > /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes | 167 | # echo 4M > /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes |
168 | 168 | ||
169 | NOTE: We can use a suffix (k, K, m, M, g or G) to indicate values in kilo, | 169 | NOTE: We can use a suffix (k, K, m, M, g or G) to indicate values in kilo, |
170 | mega or gigabytes. | 170 | mega or gigabytes. |
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ number of factors, such as rounding up to page boundaries or the total | |||
185 | availability of memory on the system. The user is required to re-read | 185 | availability of memory on the system. The user is required to re-read |
186 | this file after a write to guarantee the value committed by the kernel. | 186 | this file after a write to guarantee the value committed by the kernel. |
187 | 187 | ||
188 | # echo -n 1 > memory.limit_in_bytes | 188 | # echo 1 > memory.limit_in_bytes |
189 | # cat memory.limit_in_bytes | 189 | # cat memory.limit_in_bytes |
190 | 4096 | 190 | 4096 |
191 | 191 | ||
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ caches, RSS and Active pages/Inactive pages are shown. | |||
197 | 197 | ||
198 | The memory.force_empty gives an interface to drop *all* charges by force. | 198 | The memory.force_empty gives an interface to drop *all* charges by force. |
199 | 199 | ||
200 | # echo -n 1 > memory.force_empty | 200 | # echo 1 > memory.force_empty |
201 | 201 | ||
202 | will drop all charges in cgroup. Currently, this is maintained for test. | 202 | will drop all charges in cgroup. Currently, this is maintained for test. |
203 | 203 | ||