Commit 053bc569 authored by Yang Shi's avatar Yang Shi Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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doc: memcontrol: fix the obsolete content about force empty



We don't do page cache reparent anymore when offlining memcg, so update
force empty related content accordingly.

Reviewed-by: default avatarShakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent b631c7f5
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@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ Brief summary of control files.
 memory.soft_limit_in_bytes	 # set/show soft limit of memory usage
 memory.stat			 # show various statistics
 memory.use_hierarchy		 # set/show hierarchical account enabled
 memory.force_empty		 # trigger forced move charge to parent
 memory.force_empty		 # trigger forced page reclaim
 memory.pressure_level		 # set memory pressure notifications
 memory.swappiness		 # set/show swappiness parameter of vmscan
				 (See sysctl's vm.swappiness)
@@ -459,8 +459,9 @@ About use_hierarchy, see Section 6.
  the cgroup will be reclaimed and as many pages reclaimed as possible.

  The typical use case for this interface is before calling 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.
  Though rmdir() offlines memcg, but the memcg may still stay there due to
  charged file caches. Some out-of-use page caches may keep charged until
  memory pressure happens. If you want to avoid that, force_empty will be useful.

  Also, note that when memory.kmem.limit_in_bytes is set the charges due to
  kernel pages will still be seen. This is not considered a failure and the