pm24.git/include/linux/cgroup.h, branch v3.7-rc8

Merge branch 'for-3.7-hierarchy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2012-10-02T17:52:28Z

Pull cgroup hierarchy update from Tejun Heo: "Currently, different cgroup subsystems handle nested cgroups completely differently. There's no consistency among subsystems and the behaviors often are outright broken. People at least seem to agree that the broken hierarhcy behaviors need to be weeded out if any progress is gonna be made on this front and that the fallouts from deprecating the broken behaviors should be acceptable especially given that the current behaviors don't make much sense when nested. This patch makes cgroup emit warning messages if cgroups for subsystems with broken hierarchy behavior are nested to prepare for fixing them in the future. This was put in a separate branch because more related changes were expected (didn't make it this round) and the memory cgroup wanted to pull in this and make changes on top." * 'for-3.7-hierarchy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: mark subsystems with broken hierarchy support and whine if cgroups are nested for them

cgroup: mark subsystems with broken hierarchy support and whine if cgroups are nested for them

2012-09-14T19:01:16Z

Currently, cgroup hierarchy support is a mess. cpu related subsystems behave correctly - configuration, accounting and control on a parent properly cover its children. blkio and freezer completely ignore hierarchy and treat all cgroups as if they're directly under the root cgroup. Others show yet different behaviors. These differing interpretations of cgroup hierarchy make using cgroup confusing and it impossible to co-mount controllers into the same hierarchy and obtain sane behavior. Eventually, we want full hierarchy support from all subsystems and probably a unified hierarchy. Users using separate hierarchies expecting completely different behaviors depending on the mounted subsystem is deterimental to making any progress on this front. This patch adds cgroup_subsys.broken_hierarchy and sets it to %true for controllers which are lacking in hierarchy support. The goal of this patch is two-fold. * Move users away from using hierarchy on currently non-hierarchical subsystems, so that implementing proper hierarchy support on those doesn't surprise them. * Keep track of which controllers are broken how and nudge the subsystems to implement proper hierarchy support. For now, start with a single warning message. We can whine louder later on. v2: Fixed a typo spotted by Michal. Warning message updated. v3: Updated memcg part so that it doesn't generate warning in the cases where .use_hierarchy=false doesn't make the behavior different from root.use_hierarchy=true. Fixed a typo spotted by Glauber. v4: Check ->broken_hierarchy after cgroup creation is complete so that ->create() can affect the result per Michal. Dropped unnecessary memcg root handling per Michal. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn Cc: Glauber Costa Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Turner Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Thomas Graf Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Neil Horman Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V

cgroup: Define CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT according the configuration

2012-09-14T16:57:47Z

Since we know exactly how many subsystems exists at compile time we are able to define CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT correctly. CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT will be at max 12 (all controllers enabled). Depending on the architecture we safe either 32 - 12 pointers (80 bytes) or 64 - 12 pointers (416 bytes) per cgroup. With this change we can also remove the temporary placeholder to avoid compilation errors. Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Neil Horman Cc: Gao feng Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim Cc: John Fastabend Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org

cgroup: Assign subsystem IDs during compile time

2012-09-14T16:57:43Z

WARNING: With this change it is impossible to load external built controllers anymore. In case where CONFIG_NETPRIO_CGROUP=m and CONFIG_NET_CLS_CGROUP=m is set, corresponding subsys_id should also be a constant. Up to now, net_prio_subsys_id and net_cls_subsys_id would be of the type int and the value would be assigned during runtime. By switching the macro definition IS_SUBSYS_ENABLED from IS_BUILTIN to IS_ENABLED, all *_subsys_id will have constant value. That means we need to remove all the code which assumes a value can be assigned to net_prio_subsys_id and net_cls_subsys_id. A close look is necessary on the RCU part which was introduces by following patch: commit f845172531fb7410c7fb7780b1a6e51ee6df7d52 Author: Herbert Xu Mon May 24 09:12:34 2010 Committer: David S. Miller Mon May 24 09:12:34 2010 cls_cgroup: Store classid in struct sock Tis code was added to init_cgroup_cls() /* We can't use rcu_assign_pointer because this is an int. */ smp_wmb(); net_cls_subsys_id = net_cls_subsys.subsys_id; respectively to exit_cgroup_cls() net_cls_subsys_id = -1; synchronize_rcu(); and in module version of task_cls_classid() rcu_read_lock(); id = rcu_dereference(net_cls_subsys_id); if (id >= 0) classid = container_of(task_subsys_state(p, id), struct cgroup_cls_state, css)->classid; rcu_read_unlock(); Without an explicit explaination why the RCU part is needed. (The rcu_deference was fixed by exchanging it to rcu_derefence_index_check() in a later commit, but that is a minor detail.) So here is my pondering why it was introduced and why it safe to remove it now. Note that this code was copied over to net_prio the reasoning holds for that subsystem too. The idea behind the RCU use for net_cls_subsys_id is to make sure we get a valid pointer back from task_subsys_state(). task_subsys_state() is just blindly accessing the subsys array and returning the pointer. Obviously, passing in -1 as id into task_subsys_state() returns an invalid value (out of lower bound). So this code makes sure that only after module is loaded and the subsystem registered, the id is assigned. Before unregistering the module all old readers must have left the critical section. This is done by assigning -1 to the id and issuing a synchronized_rcu(). Any new readers wont call task_subsys_state() anymore and therefore it is safe to unregister the subsystem. The new code relies on the same trick, but it looks at the subsys pointer return by task_subsys_state() (remember the id is constant and therefore we allways have a valid index into the subsys array). No precautions need to be taken during module loading module. Eventually, all CPUs will get a valid pointer back from task_subsys_state() because rebind_subsystem() which is called after the module init() function will assigned subsys[net_cls_subsys_id] the newly loaded module subsystem pointer. When the subsystem is about to be removed, rebind_subsystem() will called before the module exit() function. In this case, rebind_subsys() will assign subsys[net_cls_subsys_id] a NULL pointer and then it calls synchronize_rcu(). All old readers have left by then the critical section. Any new reader wont access the subsystem anymore. At this point we are safe to unregister the subsystem. No synchronize_rcu() call is needed. Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Neil Horman Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Eric Dumazet Cc: Gao feng Cc: Glauber Costa Cc: Herbert Xu Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim Cc: John Fastabend Cc: Kamezawa Hiroyuki Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org

cgroup: Wrap subsystem selection macro

2012-09-14T16:57:37Z

Before we are able to define all subsystem ids at compile time we need a more fine grained control what gets defined when we include cgroup_subsys.h. For example we define the enums for the subsystems or to declare for struct cgroup_subsys (builtin subsystem) by including cgroup_subsys.h and defining SUBSYS accordingly. Currently, the decision if a subsys is used is defined inside the header by testing if CONFIG_*=y is true. By moving this test outside of cgroup_subsys.h we are able to control it on the include level. This is done by introducing IS_SUBSYS_ENABLED which then is defined according the task, e.g. is CONFIG_*=y or CONFIG_*=m. Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Neil Horman Cc: Gao feng Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim Cc: John Fastabend Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org

cgroup: Remove CGROUP_BUILTIN_SUBSYS_COUNT

2012-09-14T16:57:32Z

CGROUP_BUILTIN_SUBSYS_COUNT is used as start index or stop index when looping over the subsys array looking either at the builtin or the module subsystems. Since all the builtin subsystems have an id which is lower then CGROUP_BUILTIN_SUBSYS_COUNT we know that any module will have an id larger than CGROUP_BUILTIN_SUBSYS_COUNT. In short the ids are sorted. We are about to change id assignment to happen only at compile time later in this series. That means we can't rely on the above trick since all ids will always be defined at compile time. Furthermore, ordering the builtin subsystems and the module subsystems is not really necessary. So we need a different way to know which subsystem is a builtin or a module one. We can use the subsys[]->module pointer for this. Any place where we need to know if a subsys is module we just check for the pointer. If it is NULL then the subsystem is a builtin one. With this we are able to drop the CGROUP_BUILTIN_SUBSYS_COUNT enum. Though we need to introduce a temporary placeholder so that we don't get a compilation error when only CONFIG_CGROUP is selected and no single controller. An empty enum definition is not valid. Later in this series we are able to remove the placeholder again. And with this change we get a fix for this: kernel/cgroup.c: In function ‘cgroup_load_subsys’: kernel/cgroup.c:4326:38: warning: array subscript is below array bounds [-Warray-bounds] when CONFIG_CGROUP=y and no built in controller was enabled. Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Neil Horman Cc: Gao feng Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim Cc: John Fastabend Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org

cgroup: add xattr support

2012-08-24T22:55:33Z

This is one of the items in the plumber's wish list. For use cases: >> What would the use case be for this? > > Attaching meta information to services, in an easily discoverable > way. For example, in systemd we create one cgroup for each service, and > could then store data like the main pid of the specific service as an > xattr on the cgroup itself. That way we'd have almost all service state > in the cgroupfs, which would make it possible to terminate systemd and > later restart it without losing any state information. But there's more: > for example, some very peculiar services cannot be terminated on > shutdown (i.e. fakeraid DM stuff) and it would be really nice if the > services in question could just mark that on their cgroup, by setting an > xattr. On the more desktopy side of things there are other > possibilities: for example there are plans defining what an application > is along the lines of a cgroup (i.e. an app being a collection of > processes). With xattrs one could then attach an icon or human readable > program name on the cgroup. > > The key idea is that this would allow attaching runtime meta information > to cgroups and everything they model (services, apps, vms), that doesn't > need any complex userspace infrastructure, has good access control > (i.e. because the file system enforces that anyway, and there's the > "trusted." xattr namespace), notifications (inotify), and can easily be > shared among applications. > > Lennart v7: - no changes v6: - remove user xattr namespace, only allow trusted and security v5: - check for capabilities before setting/removing xattrs v4: - no changes v3: - instead of config option, use mount option to enable xattr support Original-patch-by: Li Zefan Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Hillf Danton Cc: Lennart Poettering Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

cgroup: remove hierarchy_mutex

2012-06-07T02:12:30Z

It was introduced for memcg to iterate cgroup hierarchy without holding cgroup_mutex, but soon after that it was replaced with a lockless way in memcg. No one used hierarchy_mutex since that, so remove it. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

cgroup: remove cgroup_subsys->populate()

2012-04-11T16:16:48Z

With memcg converted, cgroup_subsys->populate() doesn't have any user left. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Li Zefan

cgroup: make css->refcnt clearing on cgroup removal optional

2012-04-01T19:09:56Z

Currently, cgroup removal tries to drain all css references. If there are active css references, the removal logic waits and retries ->pre_detroy() until either all refs drop to zero or removal is cancelled. This semantics is unusual and adds non-trivial complexity to cgroup core and IMHO is fundamentally misguided in that it couples internal implementation details (references to internal data structure) with externally visible operation (rmdir). To userland, this is a behavior peculiarity which is unnecessary and difficult to expect (css refs is otherwise invisible from userland), and, to policy implementations, this is an unnecessary restriction (e.g. blkcg wants to hold css refs for caching purposes but can't as that becomes visible as rmdir hang). Unfortunately, memcg currently depends on ->pre_destroy() retrials and cgroup removal vetoing and can't be immmediately switched to the new behavior. This patch introduces the new behavior of not waiting for css refs to drain and maintains the old behavior for subsystems which have __DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs set. Once, memcg is updated, we can drop the code paths for the old behavior as proposed in the following patch. Note that the following patch is incorrect in that dput work item is in cgroup and may lose some of dputs when multiples css's are released back-to-back, and __css_put() triggers check_for_release() when refcnt reaches 0 instead of 1; however, it shows what part can be removed. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.containers/22559/focus=75251 Note that, in not-too-distant future, cgroup core will start emitting warning messages for subsys which require the old behavior, so please get moving. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Li Zefan Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki