diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst index 23c600f0db32..e73e373297a0 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst @@ -2184,11 +2184,25 @@ PID Interface Files Hard limit of number of processes. pids.current - A read-only single value file which exists on all cgroups. + A read-only single value file which exists on non-root cgroups. The number of processes currently in the cgroup and its descendants. + pids.peak + A read-only single value file which exists on non-root cgroups. + + The maximum value that the number of processes in the cgroup and its + descendants has ever reached. + + pids.events + A read-only flat-keyed file which exists on non-root cgroups. The + following entries are defined. Unless specified otherwise, a value + change in this file generates a file modified event. + + max + Number of times fork failed because limit was hit. + Organisational operations are not blocked by cgroup policies, so it is possible to have pids.current > pids.max. This can be done by either setting the limit to be smaller than pids.current, or attaching enough