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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill-oKw7cIdHH8eLwutG50LtGA@public.gmane.org>
To: "Víctor Fernández Martínez"
	<vfernandez-JE8hqn47KVKB+jHODAdFcQ@public.gmane.org>
Cc: cgroups-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Getting notifications of the tasks file
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:14:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120731141413.GA3200@shutemov.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5486539.IgfTNnpt1m@valencia>

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:42:06AM +0200, Víctor Fernández Martínez wrote:
> I'm trying to use the eventfd notification API to get notified when the tasks 
> file changes. This way I would like to know when child processes are spawned 
> and when they exit. However, I always get EINVAL when writing to 
> cgroup.event_control. Even cgroup_event_listener.c returns that error:
> 
> # cat /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/grp0/tasks 
> 3590
> 23902
> # ./cgroup_event_listener /sys/fs/cgroup/memory/grp0/tasks 0
> Cannot write to cgroup.event_control: Invalid argument
> 
> I have also tried to monitor cgroup.procs.
> 
> Is it possible to monitor the tasks file at all or is this a bug? If 0 is a 
> wrong argument, which argument should I use instead?

Currently, you can only listen for events from memory.usage_in_bytes,
memory.memsw.usage_in_bytes and memory.oom_control.
It's not implemented for any other cgroup files yet.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-31 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-31  9:42 Getting notifications of the tasks file Víctor Fernández Martínez
2012-07-31 14:14 ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2012-08-07 11:33 ` Zhu Yanhai

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