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 6015347b41e2676378be5fc029444b35a2ae3664..fba6af45225c737fb06d1bffc4245cbf4b4e6e42 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ c. Enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_CONT
 
 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 @@ number of factors, such as rounding up to page boundaries or the total
 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 @@ caches, RSS and Active pages/Inactive pages are shown.
 
 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 16cbec2d5d60514e67c14907e6d11f91cfecafd1..efbfc0fc232f33c49b5b918704b4e13ae5d0f2cc 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/res_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/res_counter.c
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ ssize_t res_counter_write(struct res_counter *counter, int member,
 
        ret = -EINVAL;
 
+       strstrip(buf);
        if (write_strategy) {
                if (write_strategy(buf, &tmp)) {
                        goto out_free;