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cgroup: add warning about RT not being supported on cgroup2

We haven't yet figured out what to do with RT threads on cgroup2.
Document the limitation.

v2: Included the warning about system management software behavior as
    suggested by Michael.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Tejun Heo 7 years ago
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@@ -898,6 +898,13 @@ controller implements weight and absolute bandwidth limit models for
 normal scheduling policy and absolute bandwidth allocation model for
 realtime scheduling policy.
 
+WARNING: cgroup2 doesn't yet support control of realtime processes and
+the cpu controller can only be enabled when all RT processes are in
+the root cgroup.  Be aware that system management software may already
+have placed RT processes into nonroot cgroups during the system boot
+process, and these processes may need to be moved to the root cgroup
+before the cpu controller can be enabled.
+
 
 CPU Interface Files
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