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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-02 10:52:28 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-02 10:52:28 -0700
commit68d47a137c3bef754923bccf73fb639c9b0bbd5e (patch)
treee82a527bd978ee96283f03d0df36f47d9aee1e41 /include/linux/cgroup.h
parentc0e8a139a5bb8add02b4111e9e1957d810d7285e (diff)
parent8c7f6edbda01f1b1a2e60ad61f14fe38023e433b (diff)
Merge branch 'for-3.7-hierarchy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup hierarchy update from Tejun Heo: "Currently, different cgroup subsystems handle nested cgroups completely differently. There's no consistency among subsystems and the behaviors often are outright broken. People at least seem to agree that the broken hierarhcy behaviors need to be weeded out if any progress is gonna be made on this front and that the fallouts from deprecating the broken behaviors should be acceptable especially given that the current behaviors don't make much sense when nested. This patch makes cgroup emit warning messages if cgroups for subsystems with broken hierarchy behavior are nested to prepare for fixing them in the future. This was put in a separate branch because more related changes were expected (didn't make it this round) and the memory cgroup wanted to pull in this and make changes on top." * 'for-3.7-hierarchy' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: mark subsystems with broken hierarchy support and whine if cgroups are nested for them
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diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index df354ae079c..f8a030ced0c 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -499,6 +499,21 @@ struct cgroup_subsys {
*/
bool __DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs;
+ /*
+ * If %false, this subsystem is properly hierarchical -
+ * configuration, resource accounting and restriction on a parent
+ * cgroup cover those of its children. If %true, hierarchy support
+ * is broken in some ways - some subsystems ignore hierarchy
+ * completely while others are only implemented half-way.
+ *
+ * It's now disallowed to create nested cgroups if the subsystem is
+ * broken and cgroup core will emit a warning message on such
+ * cases. Eventually, all subsystems will be made properly
+ * hierarchical and this will go away.
+ */
+ bool broken_hierarchy;
+ bool warned_broken_hierarchy;
+
#define MAX_CGROUP_TYPE_NAMELEN 32
const char *name;