linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add cgroup support for enabling controllers at boot time

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Message-ID: <6599ad830803070040i5e54f5f3u9b4c753ac5a87771@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:40:58 -0800
From:	"Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com>
To:	"David Rientjes" <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	"Balbir Singh" <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Pavel Emelianov" <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	"Hugh Dickins" <hugh@...itas.com>,
	"Sudhir Kumar" <skumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"YAMAMOTO Takashi" <yamamoto@...inux.co.jp>, lizf@...fujitsu.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, taka@...inux.co.jp,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	"KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add cgroup support for enabling controllers at boot time

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:14 PM, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:
>
>  Since the command line is logically delimited by spaces, you can
>  accidently disable a subsystem if its name appears in any of your kernel
>  options following your cgroup_disable= option.

I think that you're confusing this with things like the very early
memory init setup parameters, which do operate on the raw commandline.

By the time anything is passed to a __setup() function, it's already
been split into separate strings at space boundaries.

Paul
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