linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] cgroup: Add new capability to allow a process to migrate other tasks between cgroups

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Message-ID: <20161213185335.GD17672@htj.duckdns.org>
Date:   Tue, 13 Dec 2016 13:53:35 -0500
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Cc:     Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        "open list:CONTROL GROUP (CGROUP)" <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
        Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@...roid.com>,
        Rom Lemarchand <romlem@...roid.com>,
        Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
        Dmitry Shmidt <dimitrysh@...gle.com>,
        Todd Kjos <tkjos@...gle.com>,
        Christian Poetzsch <christian.potzsch@...tec.com>,
        Amit Pundir <amit.pundir@...aro.org>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        "Serge E . Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] cgroup: Add new capability to allow a process to
 migrate other tasks between cgroups

On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:47:19AM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> > Control group control?  The word control has a specific meaning for
> > cgroups and that second control doesn't make much sense to me.
> 
> But this would go against the long tradition of RAS syndrome and
> things like "struct task_struct".  :)

Well, now that you put it that way, it's starting to look good. :)
But, let's just go for CAP_CGROUP if everyone is okay with it.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun