1 files changed, 82 insertions, 79 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
index 1d7e9784439a..51682ab2dd1a 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Nodes to a set of tasks.   In this document "Memory Node" refers to
 an on-line node that contains memory.
 
 Cpusets constrain the CPU and Memory placement of tasks to only
-the resources within a tasks current cpuset.  They form a nested
+the resources within a task's current cpuset.  They form a nested
 hierarchy visible in a virtual file system.  These are the essential
 hooks, beyond what is already present, required to manage dynamic
 job placement on large systems.
@@ -53,11 +53,11 @@ Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt.
 Requests by a task, using the sched_setaffinity(2) system call to
 include CPUs in its CPU affinity mask, and using the mbind(2) and
 set_mempolicy(2) system calls to include Memory Nodes in its memory
-policy, are both filtered through that tasks cpuset, filtering out any
+policy, are both filtered through that task's cpuset, filtering out any
 CPUs or Memory Nodes not in that cpuset.  The scheduler will not
 schedule a task on a CPU that is not allowed in its cpus_allowed
 vector, and the kernel page allocator will not allocate a page on a
-node that is not allowed in the requesting tasks mems_allowed vector.
+node that is not allowed in the requesting task's mems_allowed vector.
 
 User level code may create and destroy cpusets by name in the cgroup
 virtual file system, manage the attributes and permissions of these
@@ -121,9 +121,9 @@ Cpusets extends these two mechanisms as follows:
  - Each task in the system is attached to a cpuset, via a pointer
    in the task structure to a reference counted cgroup structure.
  - Calls to sched_setaffinity are filtered to just those CPUs
-   allowed in that tasks cpuset.
+   allowed in that task's cpuset.
  - Calls to mbind and set_mempolicy are filtered to just
-   those Memory Nodes allowed in that tasks cpuset.
+   those Memory Nodes allowed in that task's cpuset.
  - The root cpuset contains all the systems CPUs and Memory
    Nodes.
  - For any cpuset, one can define child cpusets containing a subset
@@ -141,11 +141,11 @@ into the rest of the kernel, none in performance critical paths:
  - in init/main.c, to initialize the root cpuset at system boot.
  - in fork and exit, to attach and detach a task from its cpuset.
  - in sched_setaffinity, to mask the requested CPUs by what's
-   allowed in that tasks cpuset.
+   allowed in that task's cpuset.
  - in sched.c migrate_live_tasks(), to keep migrating tasks within
    the CPUs allowed by their cpuset, if possible.
  - in the mbind and set_mempolicy system calls, to mask the requested
-   Memory Nodes by what's allowed in that tasks cpuset.
+   Memory Nodes by what's allowed in that task's cpuset.
  - in page_alloc.c, to restrict memory to allowed nodes.
  - in vmscan.c, to restrict page recovery to the current cpuset.
 
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ new system calls are added for cpusets - all support for querying and
 modifying cpusets is via this cpuset file system.
 
 The /proc/<pid>/status file for each task has four added lines,
-displaying the tasks cpus_allowed (on which CPUs it may be scheduled)
+displaying the task's cpus_allowed (on which CPUs it may be scheduled)
 and mems_allowed (on which Memory Nodes it may obtain memory),
 in the two formats seen in the following example:
 
@@ -168,20 +168,20 @@ Each cpuset is represented by a directory in the cgroup file system
 containing (on top of the standard cgroup files) the following
 files describing that cpuset:
 
- - cpus: list of CPUs in that cpuset
- - mems: list of Memory Nodes in that cpuset
- - memory_migrate flag: if set, move pages to cpusets nodes
- - cpu_exclusive flag: is cpu placement exclusive?
- - mem_exclusive flag: is memory placement exclusive?
- - mem_hardwall flag:  is memory allocation hardwalled
- - memory_pressure: measure of how much paging pressure in cpuset
- - memory_spread_page flag: if set, spread page cache evenly on allowed nodes
- - memory_spread_slab flag: if set, spread slab cache evenly on allowed nodes
- - sched_load_balance flag: if set, load balance within CPUs on that cpuset
- - sched_relax_domain_level: the searching range when migrating tasks
+ - cpuset.cpus: list of CPUs in that cpuset
+ - cpuset.mems: list of Memory Nodes in that cpuset
+ - cpuset.memory_migrate flag: if set, move pages to cpusets nodes
+ - cpuset.cpu_exclusive flag: is cpu placement exclusive?
+ - cpuset.mem_exclusive flag: is memory placement exclusive?
+ - cpuset.mem_hardwall flag:  is memory allocation hardwalled
+ - cpuset.memory_pressure: measure of how much paging pressure in cpuset
+ - cpuset.memory_spread_page flag: if set, spread page cache evenly on allowed nodes
+ - cpuset.memory_spread_slab flag: if set, spread slab cache evenly on allowed nodes
+ - cpuset.sched_load_balance flag: if set, load balance within CPUs on that cpuset
+ - cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level: the searching range when migrating tasks
 
 In addition, the root cpuset only has the following file:
- - memory_pressure_enabled flag: compute memory_pressure?
+ - cpuset.memory_pressure_enabled flag: compute memory_pressure?
 
 New cpusets are created using the mkdir system call or shell
 command.  The properties of a cpuset, such as its flags, allowed
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ If a cpuset is cpu or mem exclusive, no other cpuset, other than
 a direct ancestor or descendant, may share any of the same CPUs or
 Memory Nodes.
 
-A cpuset that is mem_exclusive *or* mem_hardwall is "hardwalled",
+A cpuset that is cpuset.mem_exclusive *or* cpuset.mem_hardwall is "hardwalled",
 i.e. it restricts kernel allocations for page, buffer and other data
 commonly shared by the kernel across multiple users.  All cpusets,
 whether hardwalled or not, restrict allocations of memory for user
@@ -304,15 +304,15 @@ times 1000.
 ---------------------------
 There are two boolean flag files per cpuset that control where the
 kernel allocates pages for the file system buffers and related in
-kernel data structures.  They are called 'memory_spread_page' and
-'memory_spread_slab'.
+kernel data structures.  They are called 'cpuset.memory_spread_page' and
+'cpuset.memory_spread_slab'.
 
-If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_page' is set, then
+If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'cpuset.memory_spread_page' is set, then
 the kernel will spread the file system buffers (page cache) evenly
 over all the nodes that the faulting task is allowed to use, instead
 of preferring to put those pages on the node where the task is running.
 
-If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'memory_spread_slab' is set,
+If the per-cpuset boolean flag file 'cpuset.memory_spread_slab' is set,
 then the kernel will spread some file system related slab caches,
 such as for inodes and dentries evenly over all the nodes that the
 faulting task is allowed to use, instead of preferring to put those
@@ -323,41 +323,41 @@ stack segment pages of a task.
 
 By default, both kinds of memory spreading are off, and memory
 pages are allocated on the node local to where the task is running,
-except perhaps as modified by the tasks NUMA mempolicy or cpuset
+except perhaps as modified by the task's NUMA mempolicy or cpuset
 configuration, so long as sufficient free memory pages are available.
 
 When new cpusets are created, they inherit the memory spread settings
 of their parent.
 
 Setting memory spreading causes allocations for the affected page
-or slab caches to ignore the tasks NUMA mempolicy and be spread
+or slab caches to ignore the task's NUMA mempolicy and be spread
 instead.    Tasks using mbind() or set_mempolicy() calls to set NUMA
 mempolicies will not notice any change in these calls as a result of
-their containing tasks memory spread settings.  If memory spreading
+their containing task's memory spread settings.  If memory spreading
 is turned off, then the currently specified NUMA mempolicy once again
 applies to memory page allocations.
 
-Both 'memory_spread_page' and 'memory_spread_slab' are boolean flag
+Both 'cpuset.memory_spread_page' and 'cpuset.memory_spread_slab' are boolean flag
 files.  By default they contain "0", meaning that the feature is off
 for that cpuset.  If a "1" is written to that file, then that turns
 the named feature on.
 
 The implementation is simple.
 
-Setting the flag 'memory_spread_page' turns on a per-process flag
+Setting the flag 'cpuset.memory_spread_page' turns on a per-process flag
 PF_SPREAD_PAGE for each task that is in that cpuset or subsequently
 joins that cpuset.  The page allocation calls for the page cache
 is modified to perform an inline check for this PF_SPREAD_PAGE task
 flag, and if set, a call to a new routine cpuset_mem_spread_node()
 returns the node to prefer for the allocation.
 
-Similarly, setting 'memory_spread_slab' turns on the flag
+Similarly, setting 'cpuset.memory_spread_slab' turns on the flag
 PF_SPREAD_SLAB, and appropriately marked slab caches will allocate
 pages from the node returned by cpuset_mem_spread_node().
 
 The cpuset_mem_spread_node() routine is also simple.  It uses the
 value of a per-task rotor cpuset_mem_spread_rotor to select the next
-node in the current tasks mems_allowed to prefer for the allocation.
+node in the current task's mems_allowed to prefer for the allocation.
 
 This memory placement policy is also known (in other contexts) as
 round-robin or interleave.
@@ -404,24 +404,24 @@ the following two situations:
     system overhead on those CPUs, including avoiding task load
     balancing if that is not needed.
 
-When the per-cpuset flag "sched_load_balance" is enabled (the default
-setting), it requests that all the CPUs in that cpusets allowed 'cpus'
+When the per-cpuset flag "cpuset.sched_load_balance" is enabled (the default
+setting), it requests that all the CPUs in that cpusets allowed 'cpuset.cpus'
 be contained in a single sched domain, ensuring that load balancing
 can move a task (not otherwised pinned, as by sched_setaffinity)
 from any CPU in that cpuset to any other.
 
-When the per-cpuset flag "sched_load_balance" is disabled, then the
+When the per-cpuset flag "cpuset.sched_load_balance" is disabled, then the
 scheduler will avoid load balancing across the CPUs in that cpuset,
 --except-- in so far as is necessary because some overlapping cpuset
 has "sched_load_balance" enabled.
 
-So, for example, if the top cpuset has the flag "sched_load_balance"
+So, for example, if the top cpuset has the flag "cpuset.sched_load_balance"
 enabled, then the scheduler will have one sched domain covering all
-CPUs, and the setting of the "sched_load_balance" flag in any other
+CPUs, and the setting of the "cpuset.sched_load_balance" flag in any other
 cpusets won't matter, as we're already fully load balancing.
 
 Therefore in the above two situations, the top cpuset flag
-"sched_load_balance" should be disabled, and only some of the smaller,
+"cpuset.sched_load_balance" should be disabled, and only some of the smaller,
 child cpusets have this flag enabled.
 
 When doing this, you don't usually want to leave any unpinned tasks in
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ scheduler might not consider the possibility of load balancing that
 task to that underused CPU.
 
 Of course, tasks pinned to a particular CPU can be left in a cpuset
-that disables "sched_load_balance" as those tasks aren't going anywhere
+that disables "cpuset.sched_load_balance" as those tasks aren't going anywhere
 else anyway.
 
 There is an impedance mismatch here, between cpusets and sched domains.
@@ -443,19 +443,19 @@ overlap and each CPU is in at most one sched domain.
 It is necessary for sched domains to be flat because load balancing
 across partially overlapping sets of CPUs would risk unstable dynamics
 that would be beyond our understanding.  So if each of two partially
-overlapping cpusets enables the flag 'sched_load_balance', then we
+overlapping cpusets enables the flag 'cpuset.sched_load_balance', then we
 form a single sched domain that is a superset of both.  We won't move
 a task to a CPU outside it cpuset, but the scheduler load balancing
 code might waste some compute cycles considering that possibility.
 
 This mismatch is why there is not a simple one-to-one relation
-between which cpusets have the flag "sched_load_balance" enabled,
+between which cpusets have the flag "cpuset.sched_load_balance" enabled,
 and the sched domain configuration.  If a cpuset enables the flag, it
 will get balancing across all its CPUs, but if it disables the flag,
 it will only be assured of no load balancing if no other overlapping
 cpuset enables the flag.
 
-If two cpusets have partially overlapping 'cpus' allowed, and only
+If two cpusets have partially overlapping 'cpuset.cpus' allowed, and only
 one of them has this flag enabled, then the other may find its
 tasks only partially load balanced, just on the overlapping CPUs.
 This is just the general case of the top_cpuset example given a few
@@ -468,23 +468,23 @@ load balancing to the other CPUs.
 1.7.1 sched_load_balance implementation details.
 ------------------------------------------------
 
-The per-cpuset flag 'sched_load_balance' defaults to enabled (contrary
+The per-cpuset flag 'cpuset.sched_load_balance' defaults to enabled (contrary
 to most cpuset flags.)  When enabled for a cpuset, the kernel will
 ensure that it can load balance across all the CPUs in that cpuset
 (makes sure that all the CPUs in the cpus_allowed of that cpuset are
 in the same sched domain.)
 
-If two overlapping cpusets both have 'sched_load_balance' enabled,
+If two overlapping cpusets both have 'cpuset.sched_load_balance' enabled,
 then they will be (must be) both in the same sched domain.
 
-If, as is the default, the top cpuset has 'sched_load_balance' enabled,
+If, as is the default, the top cpuset has 'cpuset.sched_load_balance' enabled,
 then by the above that means there is a single sched domain covering
 the whole system, regardless of any other cpuset settings.
 
 The kernel commits to user space that it will avoid load balancing
 where it can.  It will pick as fine a granularity partition of sched
 domains as it can while still providing load balancing for any set
-of CPUs allowed to a cpuset having 'sched_load_balance' enabled.
+of CPUs allowed to a cpuset having 'cpuset.sched_load_balance' enabled.
 
 The internal kernel cpuset to scheduler interface passes from the
 cpuset code to the scheduler code a partition of the load balanced
@@ -495,9 +495,9 @@ all the CPUs that must be load balanced.
 The cpuset code builds a new such partition and passes it to the
 scheduler sched domain setup code, to have the sched domains rebuilt
 as necessary, whenever:
- - the 'sched_load_balance' flag of a cpuset with non-empty CPUs changes,
+ - the 'cpuset.sched_load_balance' flag of a cpuset with non-empty CPUs changes,
  - or CPUs come or go from a cpuset with this flag enabled,
- - or 'sched_relax_domain_level' value of a cpuset with non-empty CPUs
+ - or 'cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level' value of a cpuset with non-empty CPUs
    and with this flag enabled changes,
  - or a cpuset with non-empty CPUs and with this flag enabled is removed,
  - or a cpu is offlined/onlined.
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ As the result, task B on CPU X need to wait task A or wait load balance
 on the next tick.  For some applications in special situation, waiting
 1 tick may be too long.
 
-The 'sched_relax_domain_level' file allows you to request changing
+The 'cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level' file allows you to request changing
 this searching range as you like.  This file takes int value which
 indicates size of searching range in levels ideally as follows,
 otherwise initial value -1 that indicates the cpuset has no request.
@@ -559,8 +559,8 @@ The system default is architecture dependent.  The system default
 can be changed using the relax_domain_level= boot parameter.
 
 This file is per-cpuset and affect the sched domain where the cpuset
-belongs to.  Therefore if the flag 'sched_load_balance' of a cpuset
-is disabled, then 'sched_relax_domain_level' have no effect since
+belongs to.  Therefore if the flag 'cpuset.sched_load_balance' of a cpuset
+is disabled, then 'cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level' have no effect since
 there is no sched domain belonging the cpuset.
 
 If multiple cpusets are overlapping and hence they form a single sched
@@ -594,7 +594,7 @@ is attached, is subtle.
 If a cpuset has its Memory Nodes modified, then for each task attached
 to that cpuset, the next time that the kernel attempts to allocate
 a page of memory for that task, the kernel will notice the change
-in the tasks cpuset, and update its per-task memory placement to
+in the task's cpuset, and update its per-task memory placement to
 remain within the new cpusets memory placement.  If the task was using
 mempolicy MPOL_BIND, and the nodes to which it was bound overlap with
 its new cpuset, then the task will continue to use whatever subset
@@ -603,13 +603,13 @@ was using MPOL_BIND and now none of its MPOL_BIND nodes are allowed
 in the new cpuset, then the task will be essentially treated as if it
 was MPOL_BIND bound to the new cpuset (even though its NUMA placement,
 as queried by get_mempolicy(), doesn't change).  If a task is moved
-from one cpuset to another, then the kernel will adjust the tasks
+from one cpuset to another, then the kernel will adjust the task's
 memory placement, as above, the next time that the kernel attempts
 to allocate a page of memory for that task.
 
-If a cpuset has its 'cpus' modified, then each task in that cpuset
+If a cpuset has its 'cpuset.cpus' modified, then each task in that cpuset
 will have its allowed CPU placement changed immediately.  Similarly,
-if a tasks pid is written to another cpusets 'tasks' file, then its
+if a task's pid is written to another cpusets 'cpuset.tasks' file, then its
 allowed CPU placement is changed immediately.  If such a task had been
 bound to some subset of its cpuset using the sched_setaffinity() call,
 the task will be allowed to run on any CPU allowed in its new cpuset,
@@ -622,21 +622,21 @@ and the processor placement is updated immediately.
 Normally, once a page is allocated (given a physical page
 of main memory) then that page stays on whatever node it
 was allocated, so long as it remains allocated, even if the
-cpusets memory placement policy 'mems' subsequently changes.
-If the cpuset flag file 'memory_migrate' is set true, then when
+cpusets memory placement policy 'cpuset.mems' subsequently changes.
+If the cpuset flag file 'cpuset.memory_migrate' is set true, then when
 tasks are attached to that cpuset, any pages that task had
 allocated to it on nodes in its previous cpuset are migrated
-to the tasks new cpuset. The relative placement of the page within
+to the task's new cpuset. The relative placement of the page within
 the cpuset is preserved during these migration operations if possible.
 For example if the page was on the second valid node of the prior cpuset
 then the page will be placed on the second valid node of the new cpuset.
 
-Also if 'memory_migrate' is set true, then if that cpusets
-'mems' file is modified, pages allocated to tasks in that
-cpuset, that were on nodes in the previous setting of 'mems',
+Also if 'cpuset.memory_migrate' is set true, then if that cpuset's
+'cpuset.mems' file is modified, pages allocated to tasks in that
+cpuset, that were on nodes in the previous setting of 'cpuset.mems',
 will be moved to nodes in the new setting of 'mems.'
-Pages that were not in the tasks prior cpuset, or in the cpusets
-prior 'mems' setting, will not be moved.
+Pages that were not in the task's prior cpuset, or in the cpuset's
+prior 'cpuset.mems' setting, will not be moved.
 
 There is an exception to the above.  If hotplug functionality is used
 to remove all the CPUs that are currently assigned to a cpuset,
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ There is a second exception to the above.  GFP_ATOMIC requests are
 kernel internal allocations that must be satisfied, immediately.
 The kernel may drop some request, in rare cases even panic, if a
 GFP_ATOMIC alloc fails.  If the request cannot be satisfied within
-the current tasks cpuset, then we relax the cpuset, and look for
+the current task's cpuset, then we relax the cpuset, and look for
 memory anywhere we can find it.  It's better to violate the cpuset
 than stress the kernel.
 
@@ -678,8 +678,8 @@ and then start a subshell 'sh' in that cpuset:
   cd /dev/cpuset
   mkdir Charlie
   cd Charlie
-  /bin/echo 2-3 > cpus
-  /bin/echo 1 > mems
+  /bin/echo 2-3 > cpuset.cpus
+  /bin/echo 1 > cpuset.mems
   /bin/echo $$ > tasks
   sh
   # The subshell 'sh' is now running in cpuset Charlie
@@ -725,10 +725,13 @@ Now you want to do something with this cpuset.
 
 In this directory you can find several files:
 # ls
-cpu_exclusive  memory_migrate      mems                      tasks
-cpus           memory_pressure     notify_on_release
-mem_exclusive  memory_spread_page  sched_load_balance
-mem_hardwall   memory_spread_slab  sched_relax_domain_level
+cpuset.cpu_exclusive       cpuset.memory_spread_slab
+cpuset.cpus                cpuset.mems
+cpuset.mem_exclusive       cpuset.sched_load_balance
+cpuset.mem_hardwall        cpuset.sched_relax_domain_level
+cpuset.memory_migrate      notify_on_release
+cpuset.memory_pressure     tasks
+cpuset.memory_spread_page
 
 Reading them will give you information about the state of this cpuset:
 the CPUs and Memory Nodes it can use, the processes that are using
@@ -736,13 +739,13 @@ it, its properties.  By writing to these files you can manipulate
 the cpuset.
 
 Set some flags:
-# /bin/echo 1 > cpu_exclusive
+# /bin/echo 1 > cpuset.cpu_exclusive
 
 Add some cpus:
-# /bin/echo 0-7 > cpus
+# /bin/echo 0-7 > cpuset.cpus
 
 Add some mems:
-# /bin/echo 0-7 > mems
+# /bin/echo 0-7 > cpuset.mems
 
 Now attach your shell to this cpuset:
 # /bin/echo $$ > tasks
@@ -774,28 +777,28 @@ echo "/sbin/cpuset_release_agent" > /dev/cpuset/release_agent
 This is the syntax to use when writing in the cpus or mems files
 in cpuset directories:
 
-# /bin/echo 1-4 > cpus          -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4
-# /bin/echo 1,2,3,4 > cpus      -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4
+# /bin/echo 1-4 > cpuset.cpus           -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4
+# /bin/echo 1,2,3,4 > cpuset.cpus       -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4
 
 To add a CPU to a cpuset, write the new list of CPUs including the
 CPU to be added. To add 6 to the above cpuset:
 
-# /bin/echo 1-4,6 > cpus        -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4,6
+# /bin/echo 1-4,6 > cpuset.cpus -> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4,6
 
 Similarly to remove a CPU from a cpuset, write the new list of CPUs
 without the CPU to be removed.
 
 To remove all the CPUs:
 
-# /bin/echo "" > cpus           -> clear cpus list
+# /bin/echo "" > cpuset.cpus            -> clear cpus list
 
 2.3 Setting flags
 -----------------
 
 The syntax is very simple:
 
-# /bin/echo 1 > cpu_exclusive   -> set flag 'cpu_exclusive'
-# /bin/echo 0 > cpu_exclusive   -> unset flag 'cpu_exclusive'
+# /bin/echo 1 > cpuset.cpu_exclusive    -> set flag 'cpuset.cpu_exclusive'
+# /bin/echo 0 > cpuset.cpu_exclusive    -> unset flag 'cpuset.cpu_exclusive'
 
 2.4 Attaching processes
 -----------------------