linux-kernel - Re: CGroup Namespaces (v4)

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Message-ID: <87y4dxh9b8.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>
Date:	Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:24:27 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>
Cc:	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"open list\:ABI\/API" <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	LXC development mailing-list 
	<lxc-devel@...ts.linuxcontainers.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	cgroups mailinglist <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: CGroup Namespaces (v4)

"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 09:50:55PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> Am 16.11.2015 um 21:46 schrieb Serge E. Hallyn:
>> > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 09:41:15PM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> >> Serge,
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 8:51 PM,  <serge@...lyn.com> wrote:
>> >>> To summarize the semantics:
>> >>>
>> >>> 1. CLONE_NEWCGROUP re-uses 0x02000000, which was previously CLONE_STOPPED
>> >>>
>> >>> 2. unsharing a cgroup namespace makes all your current cgroups your new
>> >>> cgroup root.
>> >>>
>> >>> 3. /proc/pid/cgroup always shows cgroup paths relative to the reader's
>> >>> cgroup namespce root.  A task outside of  your cgroup looks like
>> >>>
>> >>>         8:memory:/../../..
>> >>>
>> >>> 4. when a task mounts a cgroupfs, the cgroup which shows up as root depends
>> >>> on the mounting task's  cgroup namespace.
>> >>>
>> >>> 5. setns to a cgroup namespace switches your cgroup namespace but not
>> >>> your cgroups.
>> >>>
>> >>> With this, using github.com/hallyn/lxc #2015-11-09/cgns (and
>> >>> github.com/hallyn/lxcfs #2015-11-10/cgns) we can start a container in a full
>> >>> proper cgroup namespace, avoiding either cgmanager or lxcfs cgroup bind mounts.
>> >>>
>> >>> This is completely backward compatible and will be completely invisible
>> >>> to any existing cgroup users (except for those running inside a cgroup
>> >>> namespace and looking at /proc/pid/cgroup of tasks outside their
>> >>> namespace.)
>> >>>    cgroupns-root.
>> >>
>> >> IIRC one downside of this series was that only the new "sane" cgroup
>> >> layout was supported
>> >> and hence it was useless for everything which expected the default layout.
>> >> Hence, still no systemd for us. :)
>> >>
>> >> Is this now different?
>> > 
>> > Yes, all hierachies are no supported.
>> > 
>> 
>> Should read "now"? :-)
>> If so, *awesome*!
>
> D'oh!  Yes, now :-)

I am glad to see multiple hierarchy support, that is something people
can use today.

A couple of quick questions before I delve into a review.

Does this allow mixing of cgroupfs and cgroupfs2?  That is can I: "mount
-t cgroupfs" inside a container and "mount -t cgroupfs2" outside a
container? and still have reasonable things happen?  I suspect the
semantics of cgroups prevent this but I am interested to know what happens.

Similary have you considered what it required to be able to safely set
FS_USERNS_MOUNT?

Eric
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