Memory Resource Controller use strstrip while parsing arguments
The memory controller has a requirement that while writing values, we need
to use echo -n. This patch fixes the problem and makes the UI more consistent.
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt
index 6015347..fba6af4 100644
--- a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@
Since now we're in the 0 cgroup,
We can alter the memory limit:
-# echo -n 4M > /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes
+# echo 4M > /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes
NOTE: We can use a suffix (k, K, m, M, g or G) to indicate values in kilo,
mega or gigabytes.
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@
availability of memory on the system. The user is required to re-read
this file after a write to guarantee the value committed by the kernel.
-# echo -n 1 > memory.limit_in_bytes
+# echo 1 > memory.limit_in_bytes
# cat memory.limit_in_bytes
4096
@@ -197,7 +197,7 @@
The memory.force_empty gives an interface to drop *all* charges by force.
-# echo -n 1 > memory.force_empty
+# echo 1 > memory.force_empty
will drop all charges in cgroup. Currently, this is maintained for test.
diff --git a/kernel/res_counter.c b/kernel/res_counter.c
index 16cbec2..efbfc0f 100644
--- a/kernel/res_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/res_counter.c
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@
ret = -EINVAL;
+ strstrip(buf);
if (write_strategy) {
if (write_strategy(buf, &tmp)) {
goto out_free;