linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET cgroup/for-3.15] cgroup: prepare for the default unified hierarchy

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 18 Mar 2014 11:55:07 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
CC:	<cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET cgroup/for-3.15] cgroup: prepare for the default unified
 hierarchy

On 2014/3/14 3:50, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The planned unified hierarchy is just around the corner.  We're gonna
> repurpose the dummy hierarchy to serve as the default unified
> hierarchy.  Controllers which aren't attached to other hierarchies are
> already automatically bound to the dummy hierarchy; however, the dummy
> hierarchy is minimally initialized during boot and can't currently act
> as a full hierarchy.
> 
> This patchset gradually turns the dummy hierarchy into fully
> functional default one and makes it mountable via selecting
> sane_behavior without any subsystems specified.  While this patchset
> does make the default hierarchy mountable, the unified hierarchy
> functionality isn't implemented yet and cgroup creation in the default
> hierarchy is rejected for now.
> 
> This lays down all the boilerplate work for the unified hierarchy.
> The next patchset will implement the actual unified functionality.
> 
> This patchset contains the following eleven patches.
> 
>  0001-cgroup-cgroup-subsys-should-be-cleared-after-the-css.patch
>  0002-cgroup-relocate-setting-of-CGRP_DEAD.patch
>  0003-cgroup-reorganize-cgroup-bootstrapping.patch
>  0004-cgroup-use-cgroup_setup_root-to-initialize-cgroup_du.patch
>  0005-cgroup-remove-NULL-checks-from-pr_cont_-cgroup_-name.patch
>  0006-cgroup-treat-cgroup_dummy_root-as-an-equivalent-hier.patch
>  0007-cgroup-move-subsys_mask-from-cgroupfs_root-to-cgroup.patch
>  0008-cgroup-rename-cgroup_dummy_root-and-related-names.patch
>  0009-cgroup-drop-const-from-buffer-of-cftype-write_string.patch
>  0010-cgroup-make-cgrp_dfl_root-mountable.patch
>  0011-cgroup-implement-CFTYPE_ONLY_ON_DFL.patch
> 
> 0001-0002 are misc fix / prep.
> 
> 0003-0009 (mostly) turn the dummy hierarchy into a full hierarchy
> which takes on controllers which aren't attached to other hierarchies.
> 
> 0010-0011 make the default hierarchy mountable and implement
> CFTYPE_ONLY_DFL.
> 
> This patchset is on top of cgroup/for-3.15 b8dadcb58d54 ("cpuset: use
> rcu_read_lock() to protect task_cs()").  diffstat follows.
> 
>  block/blk-throttle.c      |    4
>  block/cfq-iosched.c       |    4
>  include/linux/cgroup.h    |   57 ++---
>  kernel/cgroup.c           |  464 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>  kernel/cgroup_freezer.c   |    2
>  kernel/cpuset.c           |    2
>  mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c       |    2
>  mm/memcontrol.c           |    4
>  net/core/netprio_cgroup.c |    2
>  net/ipv4/tcp_memcontrol.c |    2
>  security/device_cgroup.c  |    4
>  11 files changed, 295 insertions(+), 252 deletions(-)
> 

Looks good in general!

Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/