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diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt index 9e04196c4d7..821de56d158 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt @@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ CONTENTS: 2.1 Basic Usage 2.2 Attaching processes 2.3 Mounting hierarchies by name - 2.4 Notification API 3. Kernel API 3.1 Overview 3.2 Synchronization @@ -299,11 +298,9 @@ a cgroup hierarchy's release_agent path is empty. 1.5 What does clone_children do ? --------------------------------- -If the clone_children flag is enabled (1) in a cgroup, then all -cgroups created beneath will call the post_clone callbacks for each -subsystem of the newly created cgroup. Usually when this callback is -implemented for a subsystem, it copies the values of the parent -subsystem, this is the case for the cpuset. +This flag only affects the cpuset controller. If the clone_children +flag is enabled (1) in a cgroup, a new cpuset cgroup will copy its +configuration from the parent during initialization. 1.6 How do I use cgroups ? -------------------------- @@ -444,7 +441,7 @@ You can attach the current shell task by echoing 0: You can use the cgroup.procs file instead of the tasks file to move all threads in a threadgroup at once. Echoing the PID of any task in a threadgroup to cgroup.procs causes all tasks in that threadgroup to be -be attached to the cgroup. Writing 0 to cgroup.procs moves all tasks +attached to the cgroup. Writing 0 to cgroup.procs moves all tasks in the writing task's threadgroup. Note: Since every task is always a member of exactly one cgroup in each @@ -474,25 +471,6 @@ you give a subsystem a name. The name of the subsystem appears as part of the hierarchy description in /proc/mounts and /proc/<pid>/cgroups. -2.4 Notification API --------------------- - -There is mechanism which allows to get notifications about changing -status of a cgroup. - -To register a new notification handler you need to: - - create a file descriptor for event notification using eventfd(2); - - open a control file to be monitored (e.g. memory.usage_in_bytes); - - write "<event_fd> <control_fd> <args>" to cgroup.event_control. - Interpretation of args is defined by control file implementation; - -eventfd will be woken up by control file implementation or when the -cgroup is removed. - -To unregister a notification handler just close eventfd. - -NOTE: Support of notifications should be implemented for the control -file. See documentation for the subsystem. 3. Kernel API ============= @@ -553,16 +531,16 @@ 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 +549,34 @@ 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) + +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); (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). +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. -int pre_destroy(struct cgroup *cgrp); +void css_free(struct cgroup *cgrp) +(cgroup_mutex held by caller) -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. +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) @@ -635,14 +623,6 @@ void exit(struct task_struct *task) Called during task exit. -void post_clone(struct cgroup *cgrp) -(cgroup_mutex held by caller) - -Called during cgroup_create() to do any parameter -initialization which might be required before a task could attach. For -example, in cpusets, no task may attach before 'cpus' and 'mems' are set -up. - void bind(struct cgroup *root) (cgroup_mutex held by caller) |