linux-stable.git/include/linux/cgroup.h, branch v3.5.3

cgroup: remove cgroup_subsys->populate()

2012-04-11T16:16:48+00:00

With memcg converted, cgroup_subsys->populate() doesn't have any user
left.  Remove it.

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

cgroup: make css->refcnt clearing on cgroup removal optional

2012-04-01T19:09:56+00:00

Currently, cgroup removal tries to drain all css references.  If there
are active css references, the removal logic waits and retries
->pre_detroy() until either all refs drop to zero or removal is
cancelled.

This semantics is unusual and adds non-trivial complexity to cgroup
core and IMHO is fundamentally misguided in that it couples internal
implementation details (references to internal data structure) with
externally visible operation (rmdir).  To userland, this is a behavior
peculiarity which is unnecessary and difficult to expect (css refs is
otherwise invisible from userland), and, to policy implementations,
this is an unnecessary restriction (e.g. blkcg wants to hold css refs
for caching purposes but can't as that becomes visible as rmdir hang).

Unfortunately, memcg currently depends on ->pre_destroy() retrials and
cgroup removal vetoing and can't be immmediately switched to the new
behavior.  This patch introduces the new behavior of not waiting for
css refs to drain and maintains the old behavior for subsystems which
have __DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs set.

Once, memcg is updated, we can drop the code paths for the old
behavior as proposed in the following patch.  Note that the following
patch is incorrect in that dput work item is in cgroup and may lose
some of dputs when multiples css's are released back-to-back, and
__css_put() triggers check_for_release() when refcnt reaches 0 instead
of 1; however, it shows what part can be removed.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.containers/22559/focus=75251

Note that, in not-too-distant future, cgroup core will start emitting
warning messages for subsys which require the old behavior, so please
get moving.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Li Zefan 
Cc: Vivek Goyal 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Balbir Singh 
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki

cgroup: use negative bias on css->refcnt to block css_tryget()

2012-04-01T19:09:56+00:00

When a cgroup is about to be removed, cgroup_clear_css_refs() is
called to check and ensure that there are no active css references.

This is currently achieved by dropping the refcnt to zero iff it has
only the base ref.  If all css refs could be dropped to zero, ref
clearing is successful and CSS_REMOVED is set on all css.  If not, the
base ref is restored.  While css ref is zero w/o CSS_REMOVED set, any
css_tryget() attempt on it busy loops so that they are atomic
w.r.t. the whole css ref clearing.

This does work but dropping and re-instating the base ref is somewhat
hairy and makes it difficult to add more logic to the put path as
there are two of them - the regular css_put() and the reversible base
ref clearing.

This patch updates css ref clearing such that blocking new
css_tryget() and putting the base ref are separate operations.
CSS_DEACT_BIAS, defined as INT_MIN, is added to css->refcnt and
css_tryget() busy loops while refcnt is negative.  After all css refs
are deactivated, if they were all one, ref clearing succeeded and
CSS_REMOVED is set and the base ref is put using the regular
css_put(); otherwise, CSS_DEACT_BIAS is subtracted from the refcnts
and the original postive values are restored.

css_refcnt() accessor which always returns the unbiased positive
reference counts is added and used to simplify refcnt usages.  While
at it, relocate and reformat comments in cgroup_has_css_refs().

This separates css->refcnt deactivation and putting the base ref,
which enables the next patch to make ref clearing optional.

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

cgroup: implement cgroup_rm_cftypes()

2012-04-01T19:09:56+00:00

Implement cgroup_rm_cftypes() which removes an array of cftypes from a
subsystem.  It can be called whether the target subsys is attached or
not.  cgroup core will remove the specified file from all existing
cgroups.

This will be used to improve sub-subsys modularity and will be helpful
for unified hierarchy.

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

cgroup: introduce struct cfent

2012-04-01T19:09:56+00:00

This patch adds cfent (cgroup file entry) which is the association
between a cgroup and a file.  This is in-cgroup representation of
files under a cgroup directory.  This simplifies walking walking
cgroup files and thus cgroup_clear_directory(), which is now
implemented in two parts - cgroup_rm_file() and a loop around it.

cgroup_rm_file() will be used to implement cftype removal and cfent is
scheduled to serve cgroup specific per-file data (e.g. for sysfs-like
"sever" semantics).

v2: - cfe was freed from cgroup_rm_file() which led to use-after-free
      if the file had openers at the time of removal.  Moved to
      cgroup_diput().

    - cgroup_clear_directory() triggered WARN_ON_ONCE() if d_subdirs
      wasn't empty after removing all files.  This triggered
      spuriously if some files were open during directory clearing.
      Removed.

v3: - In cgroup_diput(), WARN_ONCE(!list_empty(&cfe->node)) could be
      spuriously triggered for root cgroups because they don't go
      through cgroup_clear_directory() on unmount.  Don't trigger WARN
      for root cgroups.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Li Zefan 
Cc: Glauber Costa

cgroup: remove cgroup_add_file[s]()

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

No controller is using cgroup_add_files[s]().  Unexport them, and
convert cgroup_add_files() to handle NULL entry terminated array
instead of taking count explicitly and continue creation on failure
for internal use.

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

cgroup: implement cgroup_add_cftypes() and friends

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

Currently, cgroup directories are populated by subsys->populate()
callback explicitly creating files on each cgroup creation.  This
level of flexibility isn't needed or desirable.  It provides largely
unused flexibility which call for abuses while severely limiting what
the core layer can do through the lack of structure and conventions.

Per each cgroup file type, the only distinction that cgroup users is
making is whether a cgroup is root or not, which can easily be
expressed with flags.

This patch introduces cgroup_add_cftypes().  These deal with cftypes
instead of individual files - controllers indicate that certain types
of files exist for certain subsystem.  Newly added CFTYPE_*_ON_ROOT
flags indicate whether a cftype should be excluded or created only on
the root cgroup.

cgroup_add_cftypes() can be called any time whether the target
subsystem is currently attached or not.  cgroup core will create files
on the existing cgroups as necessary.

Also, cgroup_subsys->base_cftypes is added to ease registration of the
base files for the subsystem.  If non-NULL on subsys init, the cftypes
pointed to by ->base_cftypes are automatically registered on subsys
init / load.

Further patches will convert the existing users and remove the file
based interface.  Note that this interface allows dynamic addition of
files to an active controller.  This will be used for sub-controller
modularity and unified hierarchy in the longer term.

This patch implements the new mechanism but doesn't apply it to any
user.

v2: replaced DECLARE_CGROUP_CFTYPES[_COND]() with
    cgroup_subsys->base_cftypes, which works better for cgroup_subsys
    which is loaded as module.

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

cgroup: build list of all cgroups under a given cgroupfs_root

2012-04-01T19:09:54+00:00

Build a list of all cgroups anchored at cgroupfs_root->allcg_list and
going through cgroup->allcg_node.  The list is protected by
cgroup_mutex and will be used to improve cgroup file handling.

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

cgroup: revert ss_id_lock to spinlock

2012-03-22T00:55:01+00:00

Commit c1e2ee2dc436 ("memcg: replace ss->id_lock with a rwlock") has now
been seen to cause the unfair behavior we should have expected from
converting a spinlock to an rwlock: softlockup in cgroup_mkdir(), whose
get_new_cssid() is waiting for the wlock, while there are 19 tasks using
the rlock in css_get_next() to get on with their memcg workload (in an
artificial test, admittedly).  Yet lib/idr.c was made suitable for RCU
way back: revert that commit, restoring ss->id_lock to a spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins 
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 
Acked-by: Li Zefan 
Cc: Eric Dumazet 
Acked-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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