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

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 <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
index 9c452ef2328..8a2f302327f 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
@@ -594,15 +594,25 @@ rmdir() will fail with it. From this behavior, pre_destroy() can be
 called multiple times against a cgroup.
 
 int can_attach(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp,
-	       struct task_struct *task)
+	       struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
 (cgroup_mutex held by caller)
 
-Called prior to moving a task into a cgroup; if the subsystem
-returns an error, this will abort the attach operation.  If a NULL
-task is passed, then a successful result indicates that *any*
-unspecified task can be moved into the cgroup. Note that this isn't
-called on a fork. If this method returns 0 (success) then this should
-remain valid while the caller holds cgroup_mutex and it is ensured that either
+Called prior to moving one or more tasks into a cgroup; if the
+subsystem returns an error, this will abort the attach operation.
+@tset contains the tasks to be attached and is guaranteed to have at
+least one task in it.
+
+If there are multiple tasks in the taskset, then:
+  - it's guaranteed that all are from the same thread group
+  - @tset contains all tasks from the thread group whether or not
+    they're switching cgroups
+  - the first task is the leader
+
+Each @tset entry also contains the task's old cgroup and tasks which
+aren't switching cgroup can be skipped easily using the
+cgroup_taskset_for_each() iterator. Note that this isn't called on a
+fork. If this method returns 0 (success) then this should remain valid
+while the caller holds cgroup_mutex and it is ensured that either
 attach() or cancel_attach() will be called in future.
 
 int can_attach_task(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *tsk);
@@ -613,14 +623,14 @@ attached (possibly many when using cgroup_attach_proc). Called after
 can_attach.
 
 void cancel_attach(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp,
-	       struct task_struct *task, bool threadgroup)
+		   struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
 (cgroup_mutex held by caller)
 
 Called when a task attach operation has failed after can_attach() has succeeded.
 A subsystem whose can_attach() has some side-effects should provide this
 function, so that the subsystem can implement a rollback. If not, not necessary.
 This will be called only about subsystems whose can_attach() operation have
-succeeded.
+succeeded. The parameters are identical to can_attach().
 
 void pre_attach(struct cgroup *cgrp);
 (cgroup_mutex held by caller)
@@ -629,11 +639,12 @@ For any non-per-thread attachment work that needs to happen before
 attach_task. Needed by cpuset.
 
 void attach(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp,
-	    struct cgroup *old_cgrp, struct task_struct *task)
+	    struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
 (cgroup_mutex held by caller)
 
 Called after the task has been attached to the cgroup, to allow any
 post-attachment activity that requires memory allocations or blocking.
+The parameters are identical to can_attach().
 
 void attach_task(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *tsk);
 (cgroup_mutex held by caller)