clone3: allow spawning processes into cgroups

This adds support for creating a process in a different cgroup than its
parent. Callers can limit and account processes and threads right from
the moment they are spawned:
- A service manager can directly spawn new services into dedicated
  cgroups.
- A process can be directly created in a frozen cgroup and will be
  frozen as well.
- The initial accounting jitter experienced by process supervisors and
  daemons is eliminated with this.
- Threaded applications or even thread implementations can choose to
  create a specific cgroup layout where each thread is spawned
  directly into a dedicated cgroup.

This feature is limited to the unified hierarchy. Callers need to pass
a directory file descriptor for the target cgroup. The caller can
choose to pass an O_PATH file descriptor. All usual migration
restrictions apply, i.e. there can be no processes in inner nodes. In
general, creating a process directly in a target cgroup adheres to all
migration restrictions.

One of the biggest advantages of this feature is that CLONE_INTO_GROUP does
not need to grab the write side of the cgroup cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem.
This global lock makes moving tasks/threads around super expensive. With
clone3() this lock is avoided.

Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/task.h b/include/linux/sched/task.h
index f1879884238e..38359071236a 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/task.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/task.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 struct task_struct;
 struct rusage;
 union thread_union;
+struct css_set;
 
 /* All the bits taken by the old clone syscall. */
 #define CLONE_LEGACY_FLAGS 0xffffffffULL
@@ -29,6 +30,9 @@ struct kernel_clone_args {
 	pid_t *set_tid;
 	/* Number of elements in *set_tid */
 	size_t set_tid_size;
+	int cgroup;
+	struct cgroup *cgrp;
+	struct css_set *cset;
 };
 
 /*