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authorBen Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>2010-03-10 15:22:09 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-03-12 15:52:36 -0800
commitcf5d5941fda647fe3d2f2d00cf9e0245236a5f08 (patch)
treedeee6501f2f08089a2cd62732c3848a59a6f6a93 /include/linux/cgroup.h
parente6a1105ba08b265023dd71a4174fb4a29ebc7083 (diff)
cgroups: subsystem module unloading
Provides support for unloading modular subsystems. This patch adds a new function cgroup_unload_subsys which is to be used for removing a loaded subsystem during module deletion. Reference counting of the subsystems' modules is moved from once (at load time) to once per attached hierarchy (in parse_cgroupfs_options and rebind_subsystems) (i.e., 0 or 1). Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/cgroup.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/cgroup.h4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index 402ce477c47..2a59d3101e5 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ extern void cgroup_exit(struct task_struct *p, int run_callbacks);
extern int cgroupstats_build(struct cgroupstats *stats,
struct dentry *dentry);
extern int cgroup_load_subsys(struct cgroup_subsys *ss);
+extern void cgroup_unload_subsys(struct cgroup_subsys *ss);
extern const struct file_operations proc_cgroup_operations;
@@ -271,7 +272,8 @@ struct css_set {
/*
* Set of subsystem states, one for each subsystem. This array
* is immutable after creation apart from the init_css_set
- * during subsystem registration (at boot time).
+ * during subsystem registration (at boot time) and modular subsystem
+ * loading/unloading.
*/
struct cgroup_subsys_state *subsys[CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT];