Re: questions about hugetlb usage

[Zefan Li <lizefan-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On 2015/4/30 15:11, Ma Shimiao wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm new to cgroups.
> I'm not sure whether this is the right place to ask questions about cgroups.
> If not, I will be very sorry for disturbing.
> 
> Recently, I'm researching the usage of hugetlb.
> I have got a problem, but don't know why and how to solve it.
> 
> # cat /proc/meminfo |grep -i huge
> AnonHugePages:   1894400 kB
> HugePages_Total:     192
> HugePages_Free:      188
> HugePages_Rsvd:        0
> HugePages_Surp:        0
> Hugepagesize:       2048 kB
> # cat /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb/hugetlb.2MB.limit_in_bytes 
> 9223372036854771712
> # cat /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb/hugetlb.2MB.max_usage_in_bytes 
> 8388608
> # cat /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb/hugetlb.2MB.usage_in_bytes 
> 8388608
> # echo 10240000000000 > /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb/hugetlb.2MB.limit_in_bytes 
> -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
> 
> It seems I cant write values to hugetlb.2MB.limit_in_bytes
> Could anyone give me some advice?
> Thanks very much.
> 

Looks like you were trying to write to the file in root cgroup, which
is forbidden.