user/sven/linux.git/kernel/cgroup.c, branch v3.0

cgroup: remove the ns_cgroup

2011-05-27T00:12:34Z

The ns_cgroup is an annoying cgroup at the namespace / cgroup frontier and leads to some problems: * cgroup creation is out-of-control * cgroup name can conflict when pids are looping * it is not possible to have a single process handling a lot of namespaces without falling in a exponential creation time * we may want to create a namespace without creating a cgroup The ns_cgroup was replaced by a compatibility flag 'clone_children', where a newly created cgroup will copy the parent cgroup values. The userspace has to manually create a cgroup and add a task to the 'tasks' file. This patch removes the ns_cgroup as suggested in the following thread: https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018616.html The 'cgroup_clone' function is removed because it is no longer used. This is a userspace-visible change. Commit 45531757b45c ("cgroup: notify ns_cgroup deprecated") (merged into 2.6.27) caused the kernel to emit a printk warning users that the feature is planned for removal. Since that time we have heard from XXX users who were affected by this. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim Reviewed-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Paul Menage Acked-by: Matt Helsley Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cgroups: use flex_array in attach_proc

2011-05-27T00:12:34Z

Convert cgroup_attach_proc to use flex_array. The cgroup_attach_proc implementation requires a pre-allocated array to store task pointers to atomically move a thread-group, but asking for a monolithic array with kmalloc() may be unreliable for very large groups. Using flex_array provides the same functionality with less risk of failure. This is a post-patch for cgroup-procs-write.patch. Signed-off-by: Ben Blum Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Matt Helsley Reviewed-by: Paul Menage Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Miao Xie Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cgroups: make procs file writable

2011-05-27T00:12:34Z

Make procs file writable to move all threads by tgid at once. Add functionality that enables users to move all threads in a threadgroup at once to a cgroup by writing the tgid to the 'cgroup.procs' file. This current implementation makes use of a per-threadgroup rwsem that's taken for reading in the fork() path to prevent newly forking threads within the threadgroup from "escaping" while the move is in progress. Signed-off-by: Ben Blum Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Matt Helsley Reviewed-by: Paul Menage Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Miao Xie Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cgroups: add per-thread subsystem callbacks

2011-05-27T00:12:34Z

Add cgroup subsystem callbacks for per-thread attachment in atomic contexts Add can_attach_task(), pre_attach(), and attach_task() as new callbacks for cgroups's subsystem interface. Unlike can_attach and attach, these are for per-thread operations, to be called potentially many times when attaching an entire threadgroup. Also, the old "bool threadgroup" interface is removed, as replaced by this. All subsystems are modified for the new interface - of note is cpuset, which requires from/to nodemasks for attach to be globally scoped (though per-cpuset would work too) to persist from its pre_attach to attach_task and attach. This is a pre-patch for cgroup-procs-writable.patch. Signed-off-by: Ben Blum Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Matt Helsley Reviewed-by: Paul Menage Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Miao Xie Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cgroup,rcu: convert call_rcu(__free_css_id_cb) to kfree_rcu()

2011-05-08T05:50:47Z

The rcu callback __free_css_id_cb() just calls a kfree(), so we use kfree_rcu() instead of the call_rcu(__free_css_id_cb). Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Acked-by: Paul Menage Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

cgroup,rcu: convert call_rcu(free_cgroup_rcu) to kfree_rcu()

2011-05-08T05:50:46Z

The rcu callback free_cgroup_rcu() just calls a kfree(), so we use kfree_rcu() instead of the call_rcu(free_cgroup_rcu). Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Acked-by: Paul Menage Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

cgroup,rcu: convert call_rcu(free_css_set_rcu) to kfree_rcu()

2011-05-08T05:50:45Z

The rcu callback free_css_set_rcu() just calls a kfree(), so we use kfree_rcu() instead of the call_rcu(free_css_set_rcu). Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Acked-by: Paul Menage Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23Z

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

cgroups: if you list_empty() a head then don't list_del() it

2011-03-23T00:43:58Z

list_del() leaves poison in the prev and next pointers. The next list_empty() will compare those poisons, and say the list isn't empty. Any list operations that assume the node is on a list because of such a check will be fooled into dereferencing poison. One needs to INIT the node after the del, and fortunately there's already a wrapper for that - list_del_init(). Some of the dels are followed by deallocations, so can be ignored, and one can be merged with an add to make a move. Apart from that, I erred on the side of caution in making nodes list_empty()-queriable. Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody Reviewed-by: Paul Menage Cc: Li Zefan Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

perf: Add cgroup support

2011-02-16T12:30:48Z

This kernel patch adds the ability to filter monitoring based on container groups (cgroups). This is for use in per-cpu mode only. The cgroup to monitor is passed as a file descriptor in the pid argument to the syscall. The file descriptor must be opened to the cgroup name in the cgroup filesystem. For instance, if the cgroup name is foo and cgroupfs is mounted in /cgroup, then the file descriptor is opened to /cgroup/foo. Cgroup mode is activated by passing PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP in the flags argument to the syscall. For instance to measure in cgroup foo on CPU1 assuming cgroupfs is mounted under /cgroup: struct perf_event_attr attr; int cgroup_fd, fd; cgroup_fd = open("/cgroup/foo", O_RDONLY); fd = perf_event_open(&attr, cgroup_fd, 1, -1, PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP); close(cgroup_fd); Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian [ added perf_cgroup_{exit,attach} ] Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <4d590250.114ddf0a.689e.4482@mx.google.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar