10 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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* 'for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (21 commits)
cgroup: fix to allow mounting a hierarchy by name
cgroup: move assignement out of condition in cgroup_attach_proc()
cgroup: Remove task_lock() from cgroup_post_fork()
cgroup: add sparse annotation to cgroup_iter_start() and cgroup_iter_end()
cgroup: mark cgroup_rmdir_waitq and cgroup_attach_proc() as static
cgroup: only need to check oldcgrp==newgrp once
cgroup: remove redundant get/put of task struct
cgroup: remove redundant get/put of old css_set from migrate
cgroup: Remove unnecessary task_lock before fetching css_set on migration
cgroup: Drop task_lock(parent) on cgroup_fork()
cgroups: remove redundant get/put of css_set from css_set_check_fetched()
resource cgroups: remove bogus cast
cgroup: kill subsys->can_attach_task(), pre_attach() and attach_task()
cgroup, cpuset: don't use ss->pre_attach()
cgroup: don't use subsys->can_attach_task() or ->attach_task()
cgroup: introduce cgroup_taskset and use it in subsys->can_attach(), cancel_attach() and attach()
cgroup: improve old cgroup handling in cgroup_attach_proc()
cgroup: always lock threadgroup during migration
threadgroup: extend threadgroup_lock() to cover exit and exec
threadgroup: rename signal->threadgroup_fork_lock to ->group_rwsem
...Fix up conflict in kernel/cgroup.c due to commit e0197aae59e5: "cgroups:
fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc" that already
mentioned that the bug is fixed (differently) in Tejun's cgroup
patchset. This one, in other words.
22 Dec, 2011
1 commit
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* master: (848 commits)
SELinux: Fix RCU deref check warning in sel_netport_insert()
binary_sysctl(): fix memory leak
mm/vmalloc.c: remove static declaration of va from __get_vm_area_node
ipmi_watchdog: restore settings when BMC reset
oom: fix integer overflow of points in oom_badness
memcg: keep root group unchanged if creation fails
nilfs2: potential integer overflow in nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments()
nilfs2: unbreak compat ioctl
cpusets: stall when updating mems_allowed for mempolicy or disjoint nodemask
evm: prevent racing during tfm allocation
evm: key must be set once during initialization
mmc: vub300: fix type of firmware_rom_wait_states module parameter
Revert "mmc: enable runtime PM by default"
mmc: sdhci: remove "state" argument from sdhci_suspend_host
x86, dumpstack: Fix code bytes breakage due to missing KERN_CONT
IB/qib: Correct sense on freectxts increment and decrement
RDMA/cma: Verify private data length
cgroups: fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc
oprofile: Fix uninitialized memory access when writing to writing to oprofilefs
Revert "xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add xs_reset_watches to shutdown watches from old kernel"
...Conflicts:
kernel/cgroup_freezer.c
13 Dec, 2011
2 commits
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Now that subsys->can_attach() and attach() take @tset instead of
@task, they can handle per-task operations. Convert
->can_attach_task() and ->attach_task() users to use ->can_attach()
and attach() instead. Most converions are straight-forward.
Noteworthy changes are,* In cgroup_freezer, remove unnecessary NULL assignments to unused
methods. It's useless and very prone to get out of sync, which
already happened.* In cpuset, PF_THREAD_BOUND test is checked for each task. This
doesn't make any practical difference but is conceptually cleaner.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Acked-by: Li Zefan
Cc: Paul Menage
Cc: Balbir Singh
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura
Cc: James Morris
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Peter Zijlstra -
Currently, there's no way to pass multiple tasks to cgroup_subsys
methods necessitating the need for separate per-process and per-task
methods. This patch introduces cgroup_taskset which can be used to
pass multiple tasks and their associated cgroups to cgroup_subsys
methods.Three methods - can_attach(), cancel_attach() and attach() - are
converted to use cgroup_taskset. This unifies passed parameters so
that all methods have access to all information. Conversions in this
patchset are identical and don't introduce any behavior change.-v2: documentation updated as per Paul Menage's suggestion.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Acked-by: Paul Menage
Acked-by: Li Zefan
Cc: Balbir Singh
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Cc: James Morris
25 Nov, 2011
1 commit
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2d3cbf8b (cgroup_freezer: update_freezer_state() does incorrect state
transitions) removed is_task_frozen_enough and replaced it with a simple
frozen call. This, however, breaks freezing for a group with stopped tasks
because those cannot be frozen and so the group remains in CGROUP_FREEZING
state (update_if_frozen doesn't count stopped tasks) and never reaches
CGROUP_FROZEN.Let's add is_task_frozen_enough back and use it at the original locations
(update_if_frozen and try_to_freeze_cgroup). Semantically we consider
stopped tasks as frozen enough so we should consider both cases when
testing frozen tasks.Testcase:
mkdir /dev/freezer
mount -t cgroup -o freezer none /dev/freezer
mkdir /dev/freezer/foo
sleep 1h &
pid=$!
kill -STOP $pid
echo $pid > /dev/freezer/foo/tasks
echo FROZEN > /dev/freezer/foo/freezer.state
while true
do
cat /dev/freezer/foo/freezer.state
[ "`cat /dev/freezer/foo/freezer.state`" = "FROZEN" ] && break
sleep 1
done
echo OKSigned-off-by: Michal Hocko
Acked-by: Li Zefan
Cc: Tomasz Buchert
Cc: Paul Menage
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
22 Nov, 2011
5 commits
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After "freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect
instead of TIF_FREEZE", freezing() returns authoritative answer on
whether the current task should freeze or not and freeze_task()
doesn't need or use @sig_only. Remove it.While at it, rewrite function comment for freeze_task() and rename
@sig_only to @user_only in try_to_freeze_tasks().This patch doesn't cause any functional change.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov -
Using TIF_FREEZE for freezing worked when there was only single
freezing condition (the PM one); however, now there is also the
cgroup_freezer and single bit flag is getting clumsy.
thaw_processes() is already testing whether cgroup freezing in in
effect to avoid thawing tasks which were frozen by both PM and cgroup
freezers.This is racy (nothing prevents race against cgroup freezing) and
fragile. A much simpler way is to test actual freeze conditions from
freezing() - ie. directly test whether PM or cgroup freezing is in
effect.This patch adds variables to indicate whether and what type of
freezing conditions are in effect and reimplements freezing() such
that it directly tests whether any of the two freezing conditions is
active and the task should freeze. On fast path, freezing() is still
very cheap - it only tests system_freezing_cnt.This makes the clumsy dancing aroung TIF_FREEZE unnecessary and
freeze/thaw operations more usual - updating state variables for the
new state and nudging target tasks so that they notice the new state
and comply. As long as the nudging happens after state update, it's
race-free.* This allows use of freezing() in freeze_task(). Replace the open
coded tests with freezing().* p != current test is added to warning printing conditions in
try_to_freeze_tasks() failure path. This is necessary as freezing()
is now true for the task which initiated freezing too.-v2: Oleg pointed out that re-freezing FROZEN cgroup could increment
system_freezing_cnt. Fixed.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Paul Menage (for the cgroup portions) -
TIF_FREEZE will be removed soon and freezing() will directly test
whether any freezing condition is in effect. Make the following
changes in preparation.* Rename cgroup_freezing_or_frozen() to cgroup_freezing() and make it
return bool.* Make cgroup_freezing() access task_freezer() under rcu read lock
instead of task_lock(). This makes the state dereferencing racy
against task moving to another cgroup; however, it was already racy
without this change as ->state dereference wasn't synchronized.
This will be later dealt with using attach hooks.* freezer->state is now set before trying to push tasks into the
target state.-v2: Oleg pointed out that freeze_change_state() was setting
freeze->state incorrectly to CGROUP_FROZEN instead of
CGROUP_FREEZING. Fixed.-v3: Matt pointed out that setting CGROUP_FROZEN used to always invoke
try_to_freeze_cgroup() regardless of the current state. Patch
updated such that the actual freeze/thaw operations are always
performed on invocation. This shouldn't make any difference
unless something is broken.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Acked-by: Paul Menage
Cc: Li Zefan
Cc: Oleg Nesterov -
Currently freezing (TIF_FREEZE) and frozen (PF_FROZEN) states are
interlocked - freezing is set to request freeze and when the task
actually freezes, it clears freezing and sets frozen.This interlocking makes things more complex than necessary - freezing
doesn't mean there's freezing condition in effect and frozen doesn't
match the task actually entering and leaving frozen state (it's
cleared by the thawing task).This patch makes freezing indicate that freeze condition is in effect.
A task enters and stays frozen if freezing. This makes PF_FROZEN
manipulation done only by the task itself and prevents wakeup from
__thaw_task() leaking outside of refrigerator.The only place which needs to tell freezing && !frozen is
try_to_freeze_task() to whine about tasks which don't enter frozen.
It's updated to test the condition explicitly.With the change, frozen() state my linger after __thaw_task() until
the task wakes up and exits fridge. This can trigger BUG_ON() in
update_if_frozen(). Work it around by testing freezing() && frozen()
instead of frozen().-v2: Oleg pointed out missing re-check of freezing() when trying to
clear FROZEN and possible spurious BUG_ON() trigger in
update_if_frozen(). Both fixed.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Paul Menage -
thaw_process() now has only internal users - system and cgroup
freezers. Remove the unnecessary return value, rename, unexport and
collapse __thaw_process() into it. This will help further updates to
the freezer code.-v3: oom_kill grew a use of thaw_process() while this patch was
pending. Convert it to use __thaw_task() for now. In the longer
term, this should be handled by allowing tasks to die if killed
even if it's frozen.-v2: minor style update as suggested by Matt.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo
Cc: Paul Menage
Cc: Matt Helsley
31 Oct, 2011
1 commit
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The changed files were only including linux/module.h for the
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure, and nothing else. Revector them
onto the isolated export header for faster compile times.Nothing to see here but a whole lot of instances of:
-#include
+#includeThis commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets
will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc.Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker
27 May, 2011
1 commit
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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
28 Oct, 2010
3 commits
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There are 4 state transitions possible for a freezer. Only FREEZING ->
FROZEN transaction is done lazily. This patch allows update_freezer_state
only to perform this transaction and renames the function to
update_if_frozen.Moreover is_task_frozen_enough function is removed and its every occurence
is replaced with frozen(). Therefore for a group to become FROZEN every
task must be frozen.The previous version could trigger a following bug: When cgroup is in the
process of freezing (but none of its tasks are frozen yet),
update_freezer_state() (called from freezer_read or freezer_write) would
incorrectly report that a group is 'THAWED' (because nfrozen = 0),
allowing the transaction FREEZING -> THAWED without writing anything to
'freezer.state'. This is incorrect according to the documentation. This
could result in a 'THAWED' cgroup with frozen tasks inside.A code to reproduce this bug is available here:
http://pentium.hopto.org/~thinred/repos/linux-misc/freezer_bug2.c[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Buchert
Cc: Matt Helsley
Cc: Paul Menage
Cc: Li Zefan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
It is possible to move a task from its cgroup even if this group is
'FREEZING'. This results in a nasty bug - the moved task will become
frozen OUTSIDE its original cgroup and will remain in a permanent 'D'
state.This patch allows to migrate the task only between THAWED cgroups.
This behavior was observed and easily reproduced on a single core laptop.
Notice that reproducibility depends highly on the machine used. Program
and instructions how to reproduce the bug can be fetched from:
http://pentium.hopto.org/~thinred/repos/linux-misc/freezer_bug.cSigned-off-by: Tomasz Buchert
Cc: Matt Helsley
Cc: Paul Menage
Cc: Li Zefan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The root freezer_state is always CGROUP_THAWED so we can remove the
special case from the code. The test itself can be handy and is extracted
to static function.Signed-off-by: Tomasz Buchert
Cc: Matt Helsley
Cc: Paul Menage
Cc: Li Zefan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 May, 2010
1 commit
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Update stale comments regarding locking order and add a little more detail
so it's easier to follow the locking between the cgroup freezer and the
power management freezer code.Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
30 Apr, 2010
1 commit
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Add an RCU read-side critical section to suppress this false
positive.Located-by: Eric Paris
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Acked-by: Li Zefan
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
LKML-Reference:
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
05 Apr, 2010
1 commit
30 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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…it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
27 Mar, 2010
1 commit
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When the cgroup freezer is used to freeze tasks we do not want to thaw
those tasks during resume. Currently we test the cgroup freezer
state of the resuming tasks to see if the cgroup is FROZEN. If so
then we don't thaw the task. However, the FREEZING state also indicates
that the task should remain frozen.This also avoids a problem pointed out by Oren Ladaan: the freezer state
transition from FREEZING to FROZEN is updated lazily when userspace reads
or writes the freezer.state file in the cgroup filesystem. This means that
resume will thaw tasks in cgroups which should be in the FROZEN state if
there is no read/write of the freezer.state file to trigger this
transition before suspend.NOTE: Another "simple" solution would be to always update the cgroup
freezer state during resume. However it's a bad choice for several reasons:
Updating the cgroup freezer state is somewhat expensive because it requires
walking all the tasks in the cgroup and checking if they are each frozen.
Worse, this could easily make resume run in N^2 time where N is the number
of tasks in the cgroup. Finally, updating the freezer state from this code
path requires trickier locking because of the way locks must be ordered.Instead of updating the freezer state we rely on the fact that lazy
updates only manage the transition from FREEZING to FROZEN. We know that
a cgroup with the FREEZING state may actually be FROZEN so test for that
state too. This makes sense in the resume path even for partially-frozen
cgroups -- those that really are FREEZING but not FROZEN.Reported-by: Oren Ladaan
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
24 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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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
13 Nov, 2008
2 commits
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With this change, control file 'freezer.state' doesn't exist in root
cgroup, making root cgroup unfreezable.I think it's reasonable to disallow freeze tasks in the root cgroup. And
then we can avoid fork overhead when freezer subsystem is compiled but not
used.Also make writing invalid value to freezer.state returns EINVAL rather
than EIO. This is more consistent with other cgroup subsystem.Signed-off-by: Li Zefan
Acked-by: Paul Menage
Cc: Cedric Le Goater
Cc: Paul Menage
Cc: Matt Helsley
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
In theory the task can be moved to another cgroup and the freezer will be
freed right after task_lock is dropped, so the lock results in zero
protection.But in the case of freezer_fork() no lock is needed, since the task is not
in tasklist yet so it won't be moved to another cgroup, so task->cgroups
won't be changed or invalidated.Signed-off-by: Li Zefan
Cc: Matt Helsley
Cc: Cedric Le Goater
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn"
Cc: Paul Menage
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
31 Oct, 2008
4 commits
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Just call unfreeze_cgroup() if goal_state == THAWED, and call
try_to_freeze_cgroup() if goal_state == FROZEN.No behavior has been changed.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan
Acked-by: Cedric Le Goater
Acked-by: Matt Helsley
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Don't duplicate the implementation of thaw_process().
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make __thaw_process() static]
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan
Cc: Cedric Le Goater
Acked-by: Matt Helsley
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
It is sufficient to check if @task is frozen, and no need to check if the
original freezer is frozen.Signed-off-by: Li Zefan
Acked-by: Cedric Le Goater
Acked-by: Matt Helsley
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The BUG_ON() should be protected by freezer->lock, otherwise it can be
triggered easily when a task has been unfreezed but the corresponding
cgroup hasn't been changed to FROZEN state.Signed-off-by: Li Zefan
Acked-by: Cedric Le Goater
Acked-by: Matt Helsley
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Oct, 2008
4 commits
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check_if_frozen() sounds like it should return something when in fact it's
just updating the freezer state.Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Rename cgroup freezer states to be less generic to avoid any name
collisions while also better describing what each state is.Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Don't let frozen tasks or cgroups change. This means frozen tasks can't
leave their current cgroup for another cgroup. It also means that tasks
cannot be added to or removed from a cgroup in the FROZEN state. We
enforce these rules by checking for frozen tasks and cgroups in the
can_attach() function.Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch implements a new freezer subsystem in the control groups
framework. It provides a way to stop and resume execution of all tasks in
a cgroup by writing in the cgroup filesystem.The freezer subsystem in the container filesystem defines a file named
freezer.state. Writing "FROZEN" to the state file will freeze all tasks
in the cgroup. Subsequently writing "RUNNING" will unfreeze the tasks in
the cgroup. Reading will return the current state.* Examples of usage :
# mkdir /containers/freezer
# mount -t cgroup -ofreezer freezer /containers
# mkdir /containers/0
# echo $some_pid > /containers/0/tasksto get status of the freezer subsystem :
# cat /containers/0/freezer.state
RUNNINGto freeze all tasks in the container :
# echo FROZEN > /containers/0/freezer.state
# cat /containers/0/freezer.state
FREEZING
# cat /containers/0/freezer.state
FROZENto unfreeze all tasks in the container :
# echo RUNNING > /containers/0/freezer.state
# cat /containers/0/freezer.state
RUNNINGThis is the basic mechanism which should do the right thing for user space
task in a simple scenario.It's important to note that freezing can be incomplete. In that case we
return EBUSY. This means that some tasks in the cgroup are busy doing
something that prevents us from completely freezing the cgroup at this
time. After EBUSY, the cgroup will remain partially frozen -- reflected
by freezer.state reporting "FREEZING" when read. The state will remain
"FREEZING" until one of these things happens:1) Userspace cancels the freezing operation by writing "RUNNING" to
the freezer.state file
2) Userspace retries the freezing operation by writing "FROZEN" to
the freezer.state file (writing "FREEZING" is not legal
and returns EIO)
3) The tasks that blocked the cgroup from entering the "FROZEN"
state disappear from the cgroup's set of tasks.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export thaw_process]
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn
Tested-by: Matt Helsley
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds