16 Jun, 2011
2 commits
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Fix format and spelling.
Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer
Acked-by: Paul Menage
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
According to commit 676db4af0430 ("cgroupfs: create /sys/fs/cgroup to
mount cgroupfs on") the canonical mountpoint for the cgroup filesystem
is /sys/fs/cgroup. Hence, this should be used in the documentation.Signed-off-by: Jörg Sommer
Acked-by: Paul Menage
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 May, 2011
3 commits
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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 cgroupThe 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 -
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 -
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
05 Apr, 2011
1 commit
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Update suitable words to explain / understand cgroups contents.
Signed-off-by: Geunsik Lim
Cc: Paul Menage
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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The cgroup documentation does not specify how a process can be removed
from a particular group. This patch adds a note at the end of the
simple example about how this is done. Also, some cgroups (like
cpusets) require user input before a new group can be used. This is
noted in the patch as well.Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson
Acked-by: Paul Menage
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Jan, 2011
1 commit
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The 'ns' cgroup is considered deprecated. Change the cgroup subsystem
used in the examples of the cgroup documentation from 'ns' to 'blkio'.Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner
Acked-by: Li Zefan
Acked-by: Paul Menage
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 Oct, 2010
1 commit
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The ns_cgroup is a control group interacting with the namespaces. When a
new namespace is created, a corresponding cgroup is automatically created
too. The cgroup name is the pid of the process who did 'unshare' or the
child of 'clone'.This cgroup is tied with the namespace because it prevents a process to
escape the control group and use the post_clone callback, so the child
cgroup inherits the values of the parent cgroup.Unfortunately, the more we use this cgroup and the more we are facing
problems with it:(1) when a process unshares, the cgroup name may conflict with a
previous cgroup with the same pid, so unshare or clone return -EEXIST(2) the cgroup creation is out of control because there may have an
application creating several namespaces where the system will
automatically create several cgroups in his back and let them on the
cgroupfs (eg. a vrf based on the network namespace).(3) the mix of (1) and (2) force an administrator to regularly check
and clean these cgroups.This patchset removes the ns_cgroup by adding a new flag to the cgroup and
the cgroupfs mount option. It enables the copy of the parent cgroup when
a child cgroup is created. We can then safely remove the ns_cgroup as
this flag brings a compatibility. We have now to manually create and add
the task to a cgroup, which is consistent with the cgroup framework.This patch:
Sent as an answer to a previous thread around the ns_cgroup.
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018627.html
It adds a control file 'clone_children' for a cgroup. This control file
is a boolean specifying if the child cgroup should be a clone of the
parent cgroup or not. The default value is 'false'.This flag makes the child cgroup to call the post_clone callback of all
the subsystem, if it is available.At present, the cpuset is the only one which had implemented the
post_clone callback.The option can be set at mount time by specifying the 'clone_children'
mount option.Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn
Cc: Eric W. Biederman
Acked-by: Paul Menage
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim
Cc: Matt Helsley
Acked-by: Balbir Singh
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 May, 2010
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Trevor Woerner
Cc: Paul Menage
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 May, 2010
1 commit
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (44 commits)
vlynq: make whole Kconfig-menu dependant on architecture
add descriptive comment for TIF_MEMDIE task flag declaration.
EEPROM: max6875: Header file cleanup
EEPROM: 93cx6: Header file cleanup
EEPROM: Header file cleanup
agp: use NULL instead of 0 when pointer is needed
rtc-v3020: make bitfield unsigned
PCI: make bitfield unsigned
jbd2: use NULL instead of 0 when pointer is needed
cciss: fix shadows sparse warning
doc: inode uses a mutex instead of a semaphore.
uml: i386: Avoid redefinition of NR_syscalls
fix "seperate" typos in comments
cocbalt_lcdfb: correct sections
doc: Change urls for sparse
Powerpc: wii: Fix typo in comment
i2o: cleanup some exit paths
Documentation/: it's -> its where appropriate
UML: Fix compiler warning due to missing task_struct declaration
UML: add kernel.h include to signal.c
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25 Apr, 2010
1 commit
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Writing to cgroup.procs is not supported now.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Acked-by: Li Zefan
Cc: Ben Blum
Cc: Paul Menage
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
16 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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[Ss]ytem => [Ss]ystem
udpate => update
paramters => parameters
orginal => originalSigned-off-by: Thomas Weber
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
13 Mar, 2010
5 commits
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This patchset introduces eventfd-based API for notifications in cgroups
and implements memory notifications on top of it.It uses statistics in memory controler to track memory usage.
Output of time(1) on building kernel on tmpfs:
Root cgroup before changes:
make -j2 506.37 user 60.93s system 193% cpu 4:52.77 total
Non-root cgroup before changes:
make -j2 507.14 user 62.66s system 193% cpu 4:54.74 total
Root cgroup after changes (0 thresholds):
make -j2 507.13 user 62.20s system 193% cpu 4:53.55 total
Non-root cgroup after changes (0 thresholds):
make -j2 507.70 user 64.20s system 193% cpu 4:55.70 total
Root cgroup after changes (1 thresholds, never crossed):
make -j2 506.97 user 62.20s system 193% cpu 4:53.90 total
Non-root cgroup after changes (1 thresholds, never crossed):
make -j2 507.55 user 64.08s system 193% cpu 4:55.63 totalThis patch:
Introduce the write-only file "cgroup.event_control" in every cgroup.
To register new notification handler you need:
- create an eventfd;
- open a control file to be monitored. Callbacks register_event() and
unregister_event() must be defined for the control file;
- write " " to cgroup.event_control.
Interpretation of args is defined by control file implementation;eventfd will be woken up by control file implementation or when the
cgroup is removed.To unregister notification handler just close eventfd.
If you need notification functionality for a control file you have to
implement callbacks register_event() and unregister_event() in the
struct cftype.[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Kconfig fix]
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Paul Menage
Cc: Li Zefan
Cc: Balbir Singh
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov
Cc: Dan Malek
Cc: Vladislav Buzov
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura
Cc: Alexander Shishkin
Cc: Davide Libenzi
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Add a forgotten item into CONTENTS.
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov
Acked-by: Paul Menage
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Provides support for unloading modular subsystems.
This patch adds a new function cgroup_unload_subsys which is to be used
for removing a loaded subsystem during module deletion. Reference
counting of the subsystems' modules is moved from once (at load time) to
once per attached hierarchy (in parse_cgroupfs_options and
rebind_subsystems) (i.e., 0 or 1).Signed-off-by: Ben Blum
Acked-by: Li Zefan
Cc: Paul Menage
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Lai Jiangshan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Add interface between cgroups subsystem management and module loading
This patch implements rudimentary module-loading support for cgroups -
namely, a cgroup_load_subsys (similar to cgroup_init_subsys) for use as a
module initcall, and a struct module pointer in struct cgroup_subsys.Several functions that might be wanted by modules have had EXPORT_SYMBOL
added to them, but it's unclear exactly which functions want it and which
won't.Signed-off-by: Ben Blum
Acked-by: Li Zefan
Cc: Paul Menage
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Lai Jiangshan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Add cancel_attach() operation to struct cgroup_subsys. cancel_attach()
can be used when can_attach() operation prepares something for the subsys,
but we should rollback what can_attach() operation has prepared if attach
task fails after we've succeeded in can_attach().Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura
Acked-by: Li Zefan
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage
Cc: Balbir Singh
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
08 Oct, 2009
1 commit
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Update documentation of cgroups tasks and procs files
Document the cgroup.procs file.
Clarify the semantics of the cgroup.procs and tasks files. Although the
current cgroup.procs interface returns a sorted and uniqified list of
pids, potential future performance enhancements could result in those
properties being removed - explicitly document this aspect of the API.There are no existing users of cgroup.procs, so compatibility isn't an
issue. There are users of the "tasks" file, but none that would appear to
break in the event of the sorted property being broken. The standard
"libcpuset" explicitly sorts the results of reading from the tasks file,
and "libcg" and other users don't appear to care about ordering.Signed-off-by: Paul Menage
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
24 Sep, 2009
2 commits
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Alter the ss->can_attach and ss->attach functions to be able to deal with
a whole threadgroup at a time, for use in cgroup_attach_proc. (This is a
pre-patch to cgroup-procs-writable.patch.)Currently, new mode of the attach function can only tell the subsystem
about the old cgroup of the threadgroup leader. No subsystem currently
needs that information for each thread that's being moved, but if one were
to be added (for example, one that counts tasks within a group) this bit
would need to be reworked a bit to tell the subsystem the right
information.[hidave.darkstar@gmail.com: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Ben Blum
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage
Acked-by: Li Zefan
Reviewed-by: Matt Helsley
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Dave Young
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
To simplify referring to cgroup hierarchies in mount statements, and to
allow disambiguation in the presence of empty hierarchies and
multiply-bindable subsystems this patch adds support for naming a new
cgroup hierarchy via the "name=" mount optionA pre-existing hierarchy may be specified by either name or by subsystems;
a hierarchy's name cannot be changed by a remount operation.Example usage:
# To create a hierarchy called "foo" containing the "cpu" subsystem
mount -t cgroup -oname=foo,cpu cgroup /mnt/cgroup1# To mount the "foo" hierarchy on a second location
mount -t cgroup -oname=foo cgroup /mnt/cgroup2Signed-off-by: Paul Menage
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Balbir Singh
Cc: Dhaval Giani
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Apr, 2009
1 commit
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (28 commits)
trivial: Update my email address
trivial: NULL noise: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_*test.c
trivial: NULL noise: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drx397xD_fw.h
trivial: Fix misspelling of "Celsius".
trivial: remove unused variable 'path' in alloc_file()
trivial: fix a pdlfush -> pdflush typo in comment
trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAIL
trivial: wusb: Storage class should be before const qualifier
trivial: drivers/char/bsr.c: Storage class should be before const qualifier
trivial: h8300: Storage class should be before const qualifier
trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to
trivial: Give the right path in Documentation example
trivial: MTD: remove EOL from MODULE_DESCRIPTION
trivial: Fix typo in bio_split()'s documentation
trivial: PWM: fix of #endif comment
trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts
trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware
trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections
trivial: Update contact info for Jochen Hein
trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register"
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03 Apr, 2009
2 commits
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This won't remove cpuacct from the mounted hierachy:
# mount -t cgroup -o cpu,cpuacct xxx /mnt
# mount -o remount,cpu /mntBecause for this usage mount(8) will append the new options to the original
options.And this will get you right:
# mount [-t cgroup] -o remount,cpu xxx /mntAlso document how to specify or change release_agent.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan
Reviewd-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Paul Menage
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
In following situation, with memory subsystem,
/groupA use_hierarchy==1
/01 some tasks
/02 some tasks
/03 some tasks
/04 emptyWhen tasks under 01/02/03 hit limit on /groupA, hierarchical reclaim
is triggered and the kernel walks tree under groupA. In this case,
rmdir /groupA/04 fails with -EBUSY frequently because of temporal
refcnt from the kernel.In general. cgroup can be rmdir'd if there are no children groups and
no tasks. Frequent fails of rmdir() is not useful to users.
(And the reason for -EBUSY is unknown to users.....in most cases)This patch tries to modify above behavior, by
- retries if css_refcnt is got by someone.
- add "return value" to pre_destroy() and allows subsystem to
say "we're really busy!"Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Paul Menage
Cc: Li Zefan
Cc: Balbir Singh
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
30 Mar, 2009
1 commit
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Minor typo and spelling corrections fixed whilst reading
to learn about cgroups capabilities.Signed-off-by: Chris Samuel
Acked-by: Paul Menage
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
19 Feb, 2009
1 commit
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The css_set hash table was introduced in 2.6.26, so update the
documentation accordingly.Signed-off-by: Li Zefan
Acked-by: Paul Menage
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
16 Jan, 2009
1 commit
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Move Documentation/cpusets.txt and Documentation/controllers/* to
Documentation/cgroups/Signed-off-by: Li Zefan
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Acked-by: Balbir Singh
Acked-by: Paul Menage
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Jan, 2009
2 commits
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These patches introduce new locking/refcount support for cgroups to
reduce the need for subsystems to call cgroup_lock(). This will
ultimately allow the atomicity of cgroup_rmdir() (which was removed
recently) to be restored.These three patches give:
1/3 - introduce a per-subsystem hierarchy_mutex which a subsystem can
use to prevent changes to its own cgroup tree2/3 - use hierarchy_mutex in place of calling cgroup_lock() in the
memory controller3/3 - introduce a css_tryget() function similar to the one recently
proposed by Kamezawa, but avoiding spurious refcount failures in
the event of a race between a css_tryget() and an unsuccessful
cgroup_rmdir()Future patches will likely involve:
- using hierarchy mutex in place of cgroup_lock() in more subsystems
where appropriate- restoring the atomicity of cgroup_rmdir() with respect to cgroup_create()
This patch:
Add a hierarchy_mutex to the cgroup_subsys object that protects changes to
the hierarchy observed by that subsystem. It is taken by the cgroup
subsystem (in addition to cgroup_mutex) for the following operations:- linking a cgroup into that subsystem's cgroup tree
- unlinking a cgroup from that subsystem's cgroup tree
- moving the subsystem to/from a hierarchy (including across the
bind() callback)Thus if the subsystem holds its own hierarchy_mutex, it can safely
traverse its own hierarchy.Signed-off-by: Paul Menage
Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Li Zefan
Cc: Balbir Singh
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
- remove 'releasable' since it has been moved to the debug subsys.
- update lock requirements of subsys callbacks.Signed-off-by: Li Zefan
Cc: Paul Menage
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: Balbir Singh
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Oct, 2008
1 commit
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Describe why we need the freezer subsystem and how to use it in a
documentation file. Since the cgroups.txt file is focused on the
subsystem-agnostic portions of cgroups make a directory and move the old
cgroups.txt file at the same time.Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley
Cc: Paul Menage
Cc: containers@lists.linux-foundation.org
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
