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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt')
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1 files changed, 29 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt index 9e04196c4d7..b06eea21740 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt @@ -553,16 +553,16 @@ call to cgroup_unload_subsys(). It should also set its_subsys.module = THIS_MODULE in its .c file. Each subsystem may export the following methods. The only mandatory -methods are create/destroy. Any others that are null are presumed to +methods are css_alloc/free. Any others that are null are presumed to be successful no-ops. -struct cgroup_subsys_state *create(struct cgroup *cgrp) +struct cgroup_subsys_state *css_alloc(struct cgroup *cgrp) (cgroup_mutex held by caller) -Called to create a subsystem state object for a cgroup. The +Called to allocate a subsystem state object for a cgroup. The subsystem should allocate its subsystem state object for the passed cgroup, returning a pointer to the new object on success or a -negative error code. On success, the subsystem pointer should point to +ERR_PTR() value. On success, the subsystem pointer should point to a structure of type cgroup_subsys_state (typically embedded in a larger subsystem-specific object), which will be initialized by the cgroup system. Note that this will be called at initialization to @@ -571,24 +571,33 @@ identified by the passed cgroup object having a NULL parent (since it's the root of the hierarchy) and may be an appropriate place for initialization code. -void destroy(struct cgroup *cgrp) +int css_online(struct cgroup *cgrp) (cgroup_mutex held by caller) -The cgroup system is about to destroy the passed cgroup; the subsystem -should do any necessary cleanup and free its subsystem state -object. By the time this method is called, the cgroup has already been -unlinked from the file system and from the child list of its parent; -cgroup->parent is still valid. (Note - can also be called for a -newly-created cgroup if an error occurs after this subsystem's -create() method has been called for the new cgroup). - -int pre_destroy(struct cgroup *cgrp); - -Called before checking the reference count on each subsystem. This may -be useful for subsystems which have some extra references even if -there are not tasks in the cgroup. If pre_destroy() returns error code, -rmdir() will fail with it. From this behavior, pre_destroy() can be -called multiple times against a cgroup. +Called after @cgrp successfully completed all allocations and made +visible to cgroup_for_each_child/descendant_*() iterators. The +subsystem may choose to fail creation by returning -errno. This +callback can be used to implement reliable state sharing and +propagation along the hierarchy. See the comment on +cgroup_for_each_descendant_pre() for details. + +void css_offline(struct cgroup *cgrp); + +This is the counterpart of css_online() and called iff css_online() +has succeeded on @cgrp. This signifies the beginning of the end of +@cgrp. @cgrp is being removed and the subsystem should start dropping +all references it's holding on @cgrp. When all references are dropped, +cgroup removal will proceed to the next step - css_free(). After this +callback, @cgrp should be considered dead to the subsystem. + +void css_free(struct cgroup *cgrp) +(cgroup_mutex held by caller) + +The cgroup system is about to free @cgrp; the subsystem should free +its subsystem state object. By the time this method is called, @cgrp +is completely unused; @cgrp->parent is still valid. (Note - can also +be called for a newly-created cgroup if an error occurs after this +subsystem's create() method has been called for the new cgroup). int can_attach(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cgroup_taskset *tset) (cgroup_mutex held by caller) |