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diff --git a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt index 54253b7a8db..9fe2d0eabe0 100644 --- a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt @@ -137,6 +137,11 @@ behind this approach is that a cgroup that aggressively uses a shared page will eventually get charged for it (once it is uncharged from the cgroup that brought it in -- this will happen on memory pressure). +Exception: When you do swapoff and make swapped-out pages of shmem(tmpfs) to +be backed into memory in force, charges for pages are accounted against the +caller of swapoff rather than the users of shmem. + + 2.4 Reclaim Each cgroup maintains a per cgroup LRU that consists of an active |