mainline inclusion
from mainline-5.3-rc1
commit a5e112e6
category: feature
bugzilla: 38688
CVE: NA

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cgroup already uses floating point for percent[ile] numbers and there
are several controllers which want to take them as input.  Add a
generic parse helper to handle inputs.

Update the interface convention documentation about the use of
percentage numbers.  While at it, also clarify the default time unit.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NYu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: NHou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: NYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>