linux.git/include/linux/cgroup.h, branch v2.6.39-rc6

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

perf: Add cgroup support

2011-02-16T12:30:48+00:00

This kernel patch adds the ability to filter monitoring based on
container groups (cgroups). This is for use in per-cpu mode only.

The cgroup to monitor is passed as a file descriptor in the pid
argument to the syscall. The file descriptor must be opened to
the cgroup name in the cgroup filesystem. For instance, if the
cgroup name is foo and cgroupfs is mounted in /cgroup, then the
file descriptor is opened to /cgroup/foo. Cgroup mode is
activated by passing PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP in the flags argument
to the syscall.

For instance to measure in cgroup foo on CPU1 assuming
cgroupfs is mounted under /cgroup:

struct perf_event_attr attr;
int cgroup_fd, fd;

cgroup_fd = open("/cgroup/foo", O_RDONLY);
fd = perf_event_open(&attr, cgroup_fd, 1, -1, PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP);
close(cgroup_fd);

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian 
[ added perf_cgroup_{exit,attach} ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
LKML-Reference: <4d590250.114ddf0a.689e.4482@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

cgroup: Fix cgroup_subsys::exit callback

2011-02-16T12:30:47+00:00

Make the ::exit method act like ::attach, it is after all very nearly
the same thing.

The bug had no effect on correctness - fixing it is an optimization for
the scheduler. Also, later perf-cgroups patches rely on it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Acked-by: Paul Menage 
LKML-Reference: <1297160655.13327.92.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos

2010-11-01T19:38:34+00:00

"gadget", "through", "command", "maintain", "maintain", "controller", "address",
"between", "initiali[zs]e", "instead", "function", "select", "already",
"equal", "access", "management", "hierarchy", "registration", "interest",
"relative", "memory", "offset", "already",

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

cgroup: add clone_children control file

2010-10-28T01:03:09+00:00

The ns_cgroup is a control group interacting with the namespaces.  When a
new namespace is created, a corresponding cgroup is automatically created
too.  The cgroup name is the pid of the process who did 'unshare' or the
child of 'clone'.

This cgroup is tied with the namespace because it prevents a process to
escape the control group and use the post_clone callback, so the child
cgroup inherits the values of the parent cgroup.

Unfortunately, the more we use this cgroup and the more we are facing
problems with it:

(1) when a process unshares, the cgroup name may conflict with a
    previous cgroup with the same pid, so unshare or clone return -EEXIST

(2) the cgroup creation is out of control because there may have an
    application creating several namespaces where the system will
    automatically create several cgroups in his back and let them on the
    cgroupfs (eg.  a vrf based on the network namespace).

(3) the mix of (1) and (2) force an administrator to regularly check
    and clean these cgroups.

This patchset removes the ns_cgroup by adding a new flag to the cgroup and
the cgroupfs mount option.  It enables the copy of the parent cgroup when
a child cgroup is created.  We can then safely remove the ns_cgroup as
this flag brings a compatibility.  We have now to manually create and add
the task to a cgroup, which is consistent with the cgroup framework.

This patch:

Sent as an answer to a previous thread around the ns_cgroup.

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018627.html

It adds a control file 'clone_children' for a cgroup.  This control file
is a boolean specifying if the child cgroup should be a clone of the
parent cgroup or not.  The default value is 'false'.

This flag makes the child cgroup to call the post_clone callback of all
the subsystem, if it is available.

At present, the cpuset is the only one which had implemented the
post_clone callback.

The option can be set at mount time by specifying the 'clone_children'
mount option.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano 
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn 
Cc: Eric W. Biederman 
Acked-by: Paul Menage 
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan 
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim 
Cc: Matt Helsley 
Acked-by: Balbir Singh 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'rcu/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu into core/rcu

2010-10-07T07:43:11+00:00

cgroups: fix API thinko

2010-09-10T01:57:23+00:00

Add cgroup_attach_task_all()

The existing cgroup_attach_task_current_cg() API is called by a thread to
attach another thread to all of its cgroups; this is unsuitable for cases
where a privileged task wants to attach itself to the cgroups of a less
privileged one, since the call must be made from the context of the target
task.

This patch adds a more generic cgroup_attach_task_all() API that allows
both the source task and to-be-moved task to be specified.
cgroup_attach_task_current_cg() becomes a specialization of the more
generic new function.

[menage@google.com: rewrote changelog]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: address reviewer comments]
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Tested-by: Alex Williamson 
Acked-by: Paul Menage 
Cc: Li Zefan 
Cc: Ben Blum 
Cc: Sridhar Samudrala 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cgroups: __rcu annotations

2010-08-20T00:18:00+00:00

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Paul Menage 
Cc: Li Zefan 
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6

2010-08-04T18:47:58+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1443 commits)
  phy/marvell: add 88ec048 support
  igb: Program MDICNFG register prior to PHY init
  e1000e: correct MAC-PHY interconnect register offset for 82579
  hso: Add new product ID
  can: Add driver for esd CAN-USB/2 device
  l2tp: fix export of header file for userspace
  can-raw: Fix skb_orphan_try handling
  Revert "net: remove zap_completion_queue"
  net: cleanup inclusion
  phy/marvell: add 88e1121 interface mode support
  u32: negative offset fix
  net: Fix a typo from "dev" to "ndev"
  igb: Use irq_synchronize per vector when using MSI-X
  ixgbevf: fix null pointer dereference due to filter being set for VLAN 0
  e1000e: Fix irq_synchronize in MSI-X case
  e1000e: register pm_qos request on hardware activation
  ip_fragment: fix subtracting PPPOE_SES_HLEN from mtu twice
  net: Add getsockopt support for TCP thin-streams
  cxgb4: update driver version
  cxgb4: add new PCI IDs
  ...

Manually fix up conflicts in:
 - drivers/net/e1000e/netdev.c: due to pm_qos registration
   infrastructure changes
 - drivers/net/phy/marvell.c: conflict between adding 88ec048 support
   and cleaning up the IDs
 - drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2100.c: trivial ipw2100_pm_qos_req
   conflict (registration change vs marking it static)

cgroups: Add an API to attach a task to current task's cgroup

2010-07-28T12:45:12+00:00

Add a new kernel API to attach a task to current task's cgroup
in all the active hierarchies.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala 
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin 
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage 
Acked-by: Li Zefan