linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] cgroup changes for v5.13-rc1

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Date:   Tue, 27 Apr 2021 10:56:15 -0400
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        Zefan Li <lizefan.x@...edance.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Subject: [GIT PULL] cgroup changes for v5.13-rc1

Hello, Linus.

The only notable change is Vipin's new misc cgroup controller. This
implements generic support for resources which can be controlled by simply
counting and limiting the number of resource instances - ie. there's X
number of these on the system and this cgroup subtree can have upto Y of
those. The first user is the address space IDs used for virtual machine
memory encryption and expected future usages are similar - niche hardware
features with concrete resource limits and simple usage models.

Thanks.

The following changes since commit 2023a53bdf41b7646b1d384b6816af06309f73a5:

  Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://github.com/openrisc/linux (2021-04-03 15:42:45 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup.git for-5.13

for you to fetch changes up to ffeee417d97f9171bce9f43c22c9f477e4c84f54:

  cgroup: use tsk->in_iowait instead of delayacct_is_task_waiting_on_io() (2021-04-16 16:49:37 -0400)

----------------------------------------------------------------
Chunguang Xu (1):
      cgroup: use tsk->in_iowait instead of delayacct_is_task_waiting_on_io()

Lu Jialin (1):
      cgroup/cpuset: fix typos in comments

Tejun Heo (1):
      cgroup: misc: mark dummy misc_cg_res_total_usage() static inline

Vipin Sharma (3):
      cgroup: Add misc cgroup controller
      cgroup: Miscellaneous cgroup documentation.
      svm/sev: Register SEV and SEV-ES ASIDs to the misc controller

 Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/index.rst |   1 +
 Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/misc.rst  |   4 +
 Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst       |  73 ++++-
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c                        |  70 ++++-
 arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h                        |   1 +
 include/linux/cgroup_subsys.h                 |   4 +
 include/linux/misc_cgroup.h                   | 132 +++++++++
 init/Kconfig                                  |  14 +
 kernel/cgroup/Makefile                        |   1 +
 kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c                     |   2 +-
 kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c                        |   6 +-
 kernel/cgroup/misc.c                          | 407 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 12 files changed, 699 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/misc.rst
 create mode 100644 include/linux/misc_cgroup.h
 create mode 100644 kernel/cgroup/misc.c

-- 
tejun