css_set_update_populated(9)

✨ css_set_update_populated(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual page for css_set_update_populated — and ngl this one is lowkey iconic because it's all about keeping the populated counters in check. let's get into it 💅

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💖 NAME 💖

css_set_update_populated — literally updates the populated state of a css_set. periodt.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

void css_set_update_populated (struct css_set *cset , bool populated );

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• cset — target css_set (the one getting the vibe check ✨)
• populated — whether cset is populated or depopulated

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea ☕: cset is either getting the first task or losing the last. when that happens, you gotta update the populated counters along each linked cgroup's self chain and each subsystem css that cset pins. that's it, that's the whole job — fr fr 🫶

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💅 SEE ALSO 💅

Kernel file ./kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c — and bestie, the cross-refs go CRAZY:

• cgroup_ssid_enabled(9)
• cgroup_on_dfl(9)
• cgroup_e_css_by_mask(9)
• cgroup_e_css(9)
• cgroup_get_e_css(9)
• __cgroup_task_count(9)
• cgroup_task_count(9)
• for_each_css(9)
• do_each_subsys_mask(9)
• css_set_populated(9)
• css_update_populated(9)
• css_set_move_task(9)
• compare_css_sets(9)
• find_existing_css_set(9)
• allocate_cgrp_cset_links(9)
• link_css_set(9)
• find_css_set(9)
• cgroup_file_mode(9)
• cgroup_calc_subtree_ss_mask(9)
• cgroup_kn_unlock(9)
• cgroup_kn_lock_live(9)
• css_clear_dir(9)
• css_populate_dir(9)
• cgroup_attach_lock(9)
• cgroup_attach_unlock(9)
• cgroup_migrate_add_task(9)
• cgroup_taskset_first(9)
• cgroup_taskset_next(9)
• cgroup_migrate_execute(9)
• cgroup_migrate_vet_dst(9)
• cgroup_migrate_finish(9)
• cgroup_migrate_add_src(9)
• cgroup_migrate_prepare_dst(9)
• cgroup_migrate(9)
• cgroup_attach_task(9)
• cgroup_update_dfl_csses(9)
• cgroup_lock_and_drain_offline(9)
• cgroup_save_control(9)
• cgroup_propagate_control(9)
• cgroup_restore_control(9)
• cgroup_apply_control_enable(9)
• cgroup_apply_control_disable(9)
• cgroup_apply_control(9)
• cgroup_finalize_control(9)
• cgroup_enable_threaded(9)
• cgroup_tryget_css(9)
• cgroup_addrm_files(9)
• cgroup_rm_cftypes(9)
• cgroup_add_cftypes(9)
• cgroup_add_dfl_cftypes(9)
• cgroup_add_legacy_cftypes(9)
• cgroup_file_notify(9)
• cgroup_file_show(9)
• css_next_child(9)
• css_next_descendant_pre(9)
• css_rightmost_descendant(9)
• css_next_descendant_post(9)
• css_has_online_children(9)
• css_task_iter_advance_css_set(9)
• css_task_iter_start(9)
• css_task_iter_next(9)
• css_task_iter_end(9)
• css_create(9)
• kill_css_sync(9)
• kill_css_finish(9)
• cgroup_destroy_locked(9)
• cgroup_init_early(9)
• cgroup_init(9)
• cgroup_fork(9)
• cgroup_v1v2_get_from_file(9)
• cgroup_get_from_file(9)
• cgroup_css_set_fork(9)
• cgroup_css_set_put_fork(9)
• cgroup_can_fork(9)
• cgroup_cancel_fork(9)
• cgroup_post_fork(9)
• cgroup_task_exit(9)
• css_tryget_online_from_dir(9)
• css_from_id(9)
• cgroup_get_from_path(9)
• cgroup_v1v2_get_from_fd(9)
• cgroup_get_from_fd(9)
• cgroup_parse_float(9)

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and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this iconic entry lives in ./kernel/cgroup and was last touched in October 2026 — catch you on the flip side, css_set_update_populated(9) out! slay ✨🎀🦋