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authorCheng Lingfei <chenglingfei@foxmail.com>2026-08-24 20:45:46 +0800
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docs: cgroup-v2: fix misc.events key format descriptiongrafted
In misc cgroup, misc.events does not output a simple "max" key. Instead, each registered misc resource outputs a separate key suffixed with ".max" (i.e., "<res>.max"). Update the documentation to clarify that the entry key is "<res>.max". Suggested-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Cheng Lingfei <chenglingfei@foxmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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+====================================
+User namespaces and resource control
+====================================
+
+The kernel contains many kinds of objects that either don't have
+individual limits or that have limits which are ineffective when
+a set of processes is allowed to switch their UID. On a system
+where the admins don't trust their users or their users' programs,
+user namespaces expose the system to potential misuse of resources.
+
+In order to mitigate this, we recommend that admins enable memory
+control groups on any system that enables user namespaces.
+Furthermore, we recommend that admins configure the memory control
+groups to limit the maximum memory usable by any untrusted user.
+
+Memory control groups can be configured by installing the libcgroup
+package present on most distros editing /etc/cgrules.conf,
+/etc/cgconfig.conf and setting up libpam-cgroup.