cgroups: document the effect of attaching PID 0 to a cgroup
Document that a pid of zero(0) can be used to refer to the current task
when attaching a task to a cgroup, as in the following usage:
# echo 0 > /dev/cgroup/tasks
This is consistent with existing cpuset behavior.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups.txt
index 824fc02..d9014aa 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups.txt
@@ -390,6 +390,10 @@
...
# /bin/echo PIDn > tasks
+You can attach the current shell task by echoing 0:
+
+# echo 0 > tasks
+
3. Kernel API
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