linux.git/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c, branch v3.7-rc7

cgroup: mark subsystems with broken hierarchy support and whine if cgroups are nested for them

2012-09-14T19:01:16+00:00

Currently, cgroup hierarchy support is a mess.  cpu related subsystems
behave correctly - configuration, accounting and control on a parent
properly cover its children.  blkio and freezer completely ignore
hierarchy and treat all cgroups as if they're directly under the root
cgroup.  Others show yet different behaviors.

These differing interpretations of cgroup hierarchy make using cgroup
confusing and it impossible to co-mount controllers into the same
hierarchy and obtain sane behavior.

Eventually, we want full hierarchy support from all subsystems and
probably a unified hierarchy.  Users using separate hierarchies
expecting completely different behaviors depending on the mounted
subsystem is deterimental to making any progress on this front.

This patch adds cgroup_subsys.broken_hierarchy and sets it to %true
for controllers which are lacking in hierarchy support.  The goal of
this patch is two-fold.

* Move users away from using hierarchy on currently non-hierarchical
  subsystems, so that implementing proper hierarchy support on those
  doesn't surprise them.

* Keep track of which controllers are broken how and nudge the
  subsystems to implement proper hierarchy support.

For now, start with a single warning message.  We can whine louder
later on.

v2: Fixed a typo spotted by Michal. Warning message updated.

v3: Updated memcg part so that it doesn't generate warning in the
    cases where .use_hierarchy=false doesn't make the behavior
    different from root.use_hierarchy=true.  Fixed a typo spotted by
    Glauber.

v4: Check ->broken_hierarchy after cgroup creation is complete so that
    ->create() can affect the result per Michal.  Dropped unnecessary
    memcg root handling per Michal.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Li Zefan 
Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn 
Cc: Glauber Costa 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Paul Turner 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Thomas Graf 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Neil Horman 
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V

cgroup: convert all non-memcg controllers to the new cftype interface

2012-04-01T19:09:55+00:00

Convert debug, freezer, cpuset, cpu_cgroup, cpuacct, net_prio, blkio,
net_cls and device controllers to use the new cftype based interface.
Termination entry is added to cftype arrays and populate callbacks are
replaced with cgroup_subsys->base_cftypes initializations.

This is functionally identical transformation.  There shouldn't be any
visible behavior change.

memcg is rather special and will be converted separately.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Li Zefan 
Cc: Paul Menage 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Vivek Goyal

cgroup: remove cgroup_subsys argument from callbacks

2012-02-02T17:20:22+00:00

The argument is not used at all, and it's not necessary, because
a specific callback handler of course knows which subsys it
belongs to.

Now only ->pupulate() takes this argument, because the handlers of
this callback always call cgroup_add_file()/cgroup_add_files().

So we reduce a few lines of code, though the shrinking of object size
is minimal.

 16 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 162 deletions(-)

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
5486240  656987 7039960 13183187         c928d3 vmlinux.o.orig
5486170  656987 7039960 13183117         c9288d vmlinux.o

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan 
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

Merge branch 'for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2012-01-09T20:59:24+00:00

* 'for-3.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (21 commits)
  cgroup: fix to allow mounting a hierarchy by name
  cgroup: move assignement out of condition in cgroup_attach_proc()
  cgroup: Remove task_lock() from cgroup_post_fork()
  cgroup: add sparse annotation to cgroup_iter_start() and cgroup_iter_end()
  cgroup: mark cgroup_rmdir_waitq and cgroup_attach_proc() as static
  cgroup: only need to check oldcgrp==newgrp once
  cgroup: remove redundant get/put of task struct
  cgroup: remove redundant get/put of old css_set from migrate
  cgroup: Remove unnecessary task_lock before fetching css_set on migration
  cgroup: Drop task_lock(parent) on cgroup_fork()
  cgroups: remove redundant get/put of css_set from css_set_check_fetched()
  resource cgroups: remove bogus cast
  cgroup: kill subsys->can_attach_task(), pre_attach() and attach_task()
  cgroup, cpuset: don't use ss->pre_attach()
  cgroup: don't use subsys->can_attach_task() or ->attach_task()
  cgroup: introduce cgroup_taskset and use it in subsys->can_attach(), cancel_attach() and attach()
  cgroup: improve old cgroup handling in cgroup_attach_proc()
  cgroup: always lock threadgroup during migration
  threadgroup: extend threadgroup_lock() to cover exit and exec
  threadgroup: rename signal->threadgroup_fork_lock to ->group_rwsem
  ...

Fix up conflict in kernel/cgroup.c due to commit e0197aae59e5: "cgroups:
fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc" that already
mentioned that the bug is fixed (differently) in Tejun's cgroup
patchset. This one, in other words.

Merge branch 'master' into pm-sleep

2011-12-21T20:59:45+00:00

* master: (848 commits)
  SELinux: Fix RCU deref check warning in sel_netport_insert()
  binary_sysctl(): fix memory leak
  mm/vmalloc.c: remove static declaration of va from __get_vm_area_node
  ipmi_watchdog: restore settings when BMC reset
  oom: fix integer overflow of points in oom_badness
  memcg: keep root group unchanged if creation fails
  nilfs2: potential integer overflow in nilfs_ioctl_clean_segments()
  nilfs2: unbreak compat ioctl
  cpusets: stall when updating mems_allowed for mempolicy or disjoint nodemask
  evm: prevent racing during tfm allocation
  evm: key must be set once during initialization
  mmc: vub300: fix type of firmware_rom_wait_states module parameter
  Revert "mmc: enable runtime PM by default"
  mmc: sdhci: remove "state" argument from sdhci_suspend_host
  x86, dumpstack: Fix code bytes breakage due to missing KERN_CONT
  IB/qib: Correct sense on freectxts increment and decrement
  RDMA/cma: Verify private data length
  cgroups: fix a css_set not found bug in cgroup_attach_proc
  oprofile: Fix uninitialized memory access when writing to writing to oprofilefs
  Revert "xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add xs_reset_watches to shutdown watches from old kernel"
  ...

Conflicts:
	kernel/cgroup_freezer.c

cgroup: don't use subsys->can_attach_task() or ->attach_task()

2011-12-13T02:12:21+00:00

Now that subsys->can_attach() and attach() take @tset instead of
@task, they can handle per-task operations.  Convert
->can_attach_task() and ->attach_task() users to use ->can_attach()
and attach() instead.  Most converions are straight-forward.
Noteworthy changes are,

* In cgroup_freezer, remove unnecessary NULL assignments to unused
  methods.  It's useless and very prone to get out of sync, which
  already happened.

* In cpuset, PF_THREAD_BOUND test is checked for each task.  This
  doesn't make any practical difference but is conceptually cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Acked-by: Li Zefan 
Cc: Paul Menage 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura 
Cc: James Morris 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra

cgroup: introduce cgroup_taskset and use it in subsys->can_attach(), cancel_attach() and attach()

2011-12-13T02:12:21+00:00

Currently, there's no way to pass multiple tasks to cgroup_subsys
methods necessitating the need for separate per-process and per-task
methods.  This patch introduces cgroup_taskset which can be used to
pass multiple tasks and their associated cgroups to cgroup_subsys
methods.

Three methods - can_attach(), cancel_attach() and attach() - are
converted to use cgroup_taskset.  This unifies passed parameters so
that all methods have access to all information.  Conversions in this
patchset are identical and don't introduce any behavior change.

-v2: documentation updated as per Paul Menage's suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker 
Acked-by: Paul Menage 
Acked-by: Li Zefan 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Cc: James Morris

cgroup_freezer: fix freezing groups with stopped tasks

2011-11-24T19:58:22+00:00

2d3cbf8b (cgroup_freezer: update_freezer_state() does incorrect state
transitions) removed is_task_frozen_enough and replaced it with a simple
frozen call. This, however, breaks freezing for a group with stopped tasks
because those cannot be frozen and so the group remains in CGROUP_FREEZING
state (update_if_frozen doesn't count stopped tasks) and never reaches
CGROUP_FROZEN.

Let's add is_task_frozen_enough back and use it at the original locations
(update_if_frozen and try_to_freeze_cgroup). Semantically we consider
stopped tasks as frozen enough so we should consider both cases when
testing frozen tasks.

Testcase:
mkdir /dev/freezer
mount -t cgroup -o freezer none /dev/freezer
mkdir /dev/freezer/foo
sleep 1h &
pid=$!
kill -STOP $pid
echo $pid > /dev/freezer/foo/tasks
echo FROZEN > /dev/freezer/foo/freezer.state
while true
do
	cat /dev/freezer/foo/freezer.state
	[ "`cat /dev/freezer/foo/freezer.state`" = "FROZEN" ] && break
	sleep 1
done
echo OK

Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Acked-by: Li Zefan 
Cc: Tomasz Buchert 
Cc: Paul Menage 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

freezer: remove unused @sig_only from freeze_task()

2011-11-21T20:32:26+00:00

After "freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect
instead of TIF_FREEZE", freezing() returns authoritative answer on
whether the current task should freeze or not and freeze_task()
doesn't need or use @sig_only.  Remove it.

While at it, rewrite function comment for freeze_task() and rename
@sig_only to @user_only in try_to_freeze_tasks().

This patch doesn't cause any functional change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov

freezer: make freezing() test freeze conditions in effect instead of TIF_FREEZE

2011-11-21T20:32:25+00:00

Using TIF_FREEZE for freezing worked when there was only single
freezing condition (the PM one); however, now there is also the
cgroup_freezer and single bit flag is getting clumsy.
thaw_processes() is already testing whether cgroup freezing in in
effect to avoid thawing tasks which were frozen by both PM and cgroup
freezers.

This is racy (nothing prevents race against cgroup freezing) and
fragile.  A much simpler way is to test actual freeze conditions from
freezing() - ie. directly test whether PM or cgroup freezing is in
effect.

This patch adds variables to indicate whether and what type of
freezing conditions are in effect and reimplements freezing() such
that it directly tests whether any of the two freezing conditions is
active and the task should freeze.  On fast path, freezing() is still
very cheap - it only tests system_freezing_cnt.

This makes the clumsy dancing aroung TIF_FREEZE unnecessary and
freeze/thaw operations more usual - updating state variables for the
new state and nudging target tasks so that they notice the new state
and comply.  As long as the nudging happens after state update, it's
race-free.

* This allows use of freezing() in freeze_task().  Replace the open
  coded tests with freezing().

* p != current test is added to warning printing conditions in
  try_to_freeze_tasks() failure path.  This is necessary as freezing()
  is now true for the task which initiated freezing too.

-v2: Oleg pointed out that re-freezing FROZEN cgroup could increment
     system_freezing_cnt.  Fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Paul Menage   (for the cgroup portions)