cpusets: document adding/removing cpus to cpuset elaborately

By writing a tasks's pid to the file, a process adds that task to that
cgroup/cpuset.  But to add a cpu/mem to a cpuset, the new list of cpus
should be written to the cpuset.mems file which would replace the old list
of cpus.  Make this clearer in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
index f9ca389dddf4..1d7e9784439a 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt
@@ -777,6 +777,18 @@ in cpuset directories:
 # /bin/echo 1-4 > cpus		-> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4
 # /bin/echo 1,2,3,4 > cpus	-> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4
 
+To add a CPU to a cpuset, write the new list of CPUs including the
+CPU to be added. To add 6 to the above cpuset:
+
+# /bin/echo 1-4,6 > cpus	-> set cpus list to cpus 1,2,3,4,6
+
+Similarly to remove a CPU from a cpuset, write the new list of CPUs
+without the CPU to be removed.
+
+To remove all the CPUs:
+
+# /bin/echo "" > cpus		-> clear cpus list
+
 2.3 Setting flags
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