pids_charge(9)

hey bestie!! 🌸 welcome to the pids_charge(9) page from the Kernel API Manual — we are lowkey here to hierarchically charge the pid count, and yes she is serving kernel-internals main character energy 👑

✨ NAME ✨

pids_charge — hierarchically charge the pid count 💖 that's the whole name vibe, no notes.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

void pids_charge (struct pids_cgroup *pids , int num );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• pids — the pid cgroup state 💅
• num — the number of pids to charge ✨

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

okay so the big thing, bestie: this function does not follow the pid limit set. It cannot fail, and the new pid count may exceed the limit 😭 it is only used for reverting failed attaches, where there is no other way out than violating the limit. that's the whole point — emergency revert behavior, periodt.

🚨 real talk: exceeding the limit is literally part of the deal here, because this is the no-other-way-out path for failed attaches.

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

kernel file ./kernel/cgroup/pids.c — go read her friends, iykyk:

• pids_cancel(9)
• pids_uncharge(9)
• pids_try_charge(9)

mwah 💋 — source/version + date sign-off: ./kernel/cgroup, October 2026. that's the tea 🎀