cgroups: add an owner to the mm_struct

Remove the mem_cgroup member from mm_struct and instead adds an owner.

This approach was suggested by Paul Menage.  The advantage of this approach
is that, once the mm->owner is known, using the subsystem id, the cgroup
can be determined.  It also allows several control groups that are
virtually grouped by mm_struct, to exist independent of the memory
controller i.e., without adding mem_cgroup's for each controller, to
mm_struct.

A new config option CONFIG_MM_OWNER is added and the memory resource
controller selects this config option.

This patch also adds cgroup callbacks to notify subsystems when mm->owner
changes.  The mm_cgroup_changed callback is called with the task_lock() of
the new task held and is called just prior to changing the mm->owner.

I am indebted to Paul Menage for the several reviews of this patchset and
helping me make it lighter and simpler.

This patch was tested on a powerpc box, it was compiled with both the
MM_OWNER config turned on and off.

After the thread group leader exits, it's moved to init_css_state by
cgroup_exit(), thus all future charges from runnings threads would be
redirected to the init_css_set's subsystem.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index 095248082b7e..e155aa78d859 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -305,6 +305,12 @@ struct cgroup_subsys {
 			struct cgroup *cgrp);
 	void (*post_clone)(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp);
 	void (*bind)(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *root);
+	/*
+	 * This routine is called with the task_lock of mm->owner held
+	 */
+	void (*mm_owner_changed)(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
+					struct cgroup *old,
+					struct cgroup *new);
 	int subsys_id;
 	int active;
 	int disabled;
@@ -390,4 +396,13 @@ static inline int cgroupstats_build(struct cgroupstats *stats,
 
 #endif /* !CONFIG_CGROUPS */
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_MM_OWNER
+extern void
+cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks(struct task_struct *old, struct task_struct *new);
+#else /* !CONFIG_MM_OWNER */
+static inline void
+cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks(struct task_struct *old, struct task_struct *new)
+{
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_MM_OWNER */
 #endif /* _LINUX_CGROUP_H */