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PSI offers 2 mechanisms to get information about a specific resource pressure. One is reading from /proc/pressure/<resource>, which gives average pressures aggregated every 2s. The other is creating a pollable fd for a specific resource and cgroup. The trigger creation requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE, and gives the possibility to pick specific time window and threshold, spawing an RT thread to aggregate the data. Systemd would like to provide containers the option to monitor pressure on their own cgroup and sub-cgroups. For example, if systemd launches a container that itself then launches services, the container should have the ability to poll() for pressure in individual services. But neither the container nor the services are privileged. This patch implements a mechanism to allow unprivileged users to create pressure triggers. The difference with privileged triggers creation is that unprivileged ones must have a time window that's a multiple of 2s. This is so that we can avoid unrestricted spawning of rt threads, and use instead the same aggregation mechanism done for the averages, which runs independently of any triggers. Suggested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Domenico Cerasuolo <cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230330105418.77061-5-cerasuolodomenico@gmail.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.