Commit 5341cfab authored by Andrea Righi's avatar Andrea Righi Committed by Linus Torvalds

res_counter: update documentation

After the introduction of resource counters hierarchies
(28dbc4b6) the prototypes of
res_counter_init() and res_counter_charge() have been changed.

Keep the documentation consistent with the actual function prototypes.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent bdff549e
......@@ -47,13 +47,18 @@ to work with it.
2. Basic accounting routines
a. void res_counter_init(struct res_counter *rc)
a. void res_counter_init(struct res_counter *rc,
struct res_counter *rc_parent)
Initializes the resource counter. As usual, should be the first
routine called for a new counter.
b. int res_counter_charge[_locked]
(struct res_counter *rc, unsigned long val)
The struct res_counter *parent can be used to define a hierarchical
child -> parent relationship directly in the res_counter structure,
NULL can be used to define no relationship.
c. int res_counter_charge(struct res_counter *rc, unsigned long val,
struct res_counter **limit_fail_at)
When a resource is about to be allocated it has to be accounted
with the appropriate resource counter (controller should determine
......@@ -67,7 +72,18 @@ to work with it.
* if the charging is performed first, then it should be uncharged
on error path (if the one is called).
c. void res_counter_uncharge[_locked]
If the charging fails and a hierarchical dependency exists, the
limit_fail_at parameter is set to the particular res_counter element
where the charging failed.
d. int res_counter_charge_locked
(struct res_counter *rc, unsigned long val)
The same as res_counter_charge(), but it must not acquire/release the
res_counter->lock internally (it must be called with res_counter->lock
held).
e. void res_counter_uncharge[_locked]
(struct res_counter *rc, unsigned long val)
When a resource is released (freed) it should be de-accounted
......@@ -76,7 +92,6 @@ to work with it.
The _locked routines imply that the res_counter->lock is taken.
2.1 Other accounting routines
There are more routines that may help you with common needs, like
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