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authorDaniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>2011-05-27 03:25:23 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-27 04:12:34 +0400
commita77aea92010acf54ad785047234418d5d68772e2 (patch)
treec7cb57b62fd02bee2baceb79251923f7caec6139 /Documentation/cgroups
parentd846687d7f84e45f23ecf3846dbb43312a1206dd (diff)
downloadlinux-a77aea92010acf54ad785047234418d5d68772e2.tar.xz
cgroup: remove the ns_cgroup
The ns_cgroup is an annoying cgroup at the namespace / cgroup frontier and leads to some problems: * cgroup creation is out-of-control * cgroup name can conflict when pids are looping * it is not possible to have a single process handling a lot of namespaces without falling in a exponential creation time * we may want to create a namespace without creating a cgroup The ns_cgroup was replaced by a compatibility flag 'clone_children', where a newly created cgroup will copy the parent cgroup values. The userspace has to manually create a cgroup and add a task to the 'tasks' file. This patch removes the ns_cgroup as suggested in the following thread: https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018616.html The 'cgroup_clone' function is removed because it is no longer used. This is a userspace-visible change. Commit 45531757b45c ("cgroup: notify ns_cgroup deprecated") (merged into 2.6.27) caused the kernel to emit a printk warning users that the feature is planned for removal. Since that time we have heard from XXX users who were affected by this. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/cgroups')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
index 8c4f3466c894..0ed99f08f1f3 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
@@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ always handled well.
void post_clone(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp)
(cgroup_mutex held by caller)
-Called at the end of cgroup_clone() to do any parameter
+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.