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Documentation/x86: Documentation for MON group move feature
Describe new support for moving MON groups to a new parent CTRL_MON group and its restrictions. Signed-off-by: Peter Newman <peternewman@google.com> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com> Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230419125015.693566-4-peternewman@google.com
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represents to the parent. Removing one of the created CTRL_MON groups
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will automatically remove all MON groups below it.
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Moving MON group directories to a new parent CTRL_MON group is supported
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for the purpose of changing the resource allocations of a MON group
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without impacting its monitoring data or assigned tasks. This operation
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is not allowed for MON groups which monitor CPUs. No other move
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operation is currently allowed other than simply renaming a CTRL_MON or
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MON group.
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All groups contain the following files:
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