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2017-02-02Merge branch 'cgroup/for-4.11-rdmacg' into cgroup/for-4.11Tejun Heo1-4/+42
Merge in to resolve conflicts in Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt. The conflicts are from multiple section additions and trivial to resolve. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2017-02-02cgroup: drop the matching uid requirement on migration for cgroup v2Tejun Heo1-7/+5
Along with the write access to the cgroup.procs or tasks file, cgroup has required the writer's euid, unless root, to match [s]uid of the target process or task. On cgroup v1, this is necessary because there's nothing preventing a delegatee from pulling in tasks or processes from all over the system. If a user has a cgroup subdirectory delegated to it, the user would have write access to the cgroup.procs or tasks file. If there are no further checks than file write access check, the user would be able to pull processes from all over the system into its subhierarchy which is clearly not the intended behavior. The matching [s]uid requirement partially prevents this problem by allowing a delegatee to pull in the processes that belongs to it. This isn't a sufficient protection however, because a user would still be able to jump processes across two disjoint sub-hierarchies that has been delegated to them. cgroup v2 resolves the issue by requiring the writer to have access to the common ancestor of the cgroup.procs file of the source and target cgroups. This confines each delegatee to their own sub-hierarchy proper and bases all permission decisions on the cgroup filesystem rather than having to pull in explicit uid matching. cgroup v2 has still been applying the matching [s]uid requirement just for historical reasons. On cgroup2, the requirement doesn't serve any purpose while unnecessarily complicating the permission model. Let's drop it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2017-02-02cgroup, perf_event: make perf_event controller work on cgroup2 hierarchyTejun Heo1-0/+12
perf_event is a utility controller whose primary role is identifying cgroup membership to filter perf events; however, because it also tracks some per-css state, it can't be replaced by pure cgroup membership test. Mark the controller as implicitly enabled on the default hierarchy so that perf events can always be filtered based on cgroup v2 path as long as the controller is not mounted on a legacy hierarchy. "perf record" is updated accordingly so that it searches for both v1 and v2 hierarchies. A v1 hierarchy is used if perf_event is mounted on it; otherwise, it uses the v2 hierarchy. v2: Doc updated to reflect more flexible rebinding behavior. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
2017-01-10cgroup: Add missing cgroup-v2 PID controller documentation.Hans Ragas1-0/+41
Signed-off-by: Hans Ragas <hansr@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2017-01-10rdmacg: Added documentation for rdmacgParav Pandit1-0/+38
Added documentation for v1 and v2 version describing high level design and usage examples on using rdma controller. Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <pandit.parav@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2016-03-21Merge branch 'for-4.6-ns' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+147
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup namespace support from Tejun Heo: "These are changes to implement namespace support for cgroup which has been pending for quite some time now. It is very straight-forward and only affects what part of cgroup hierarchies are visible. After unsharing, mounting a cgroup fs will be scoped to the cgroups the task belonged to at the time of unsharing and the cgroup paths exposed to userland would be adjusted accordingly" * 'for-4.6-ns' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: fix and restructure error handling in copy_cgroup_ns() cgroup: fix alloc_cgroup_ns() error handling in copy_cgroup_ns() Add FS_USERNS_FLAG to cgroup fs cgroup: Add documentation for cgroup namespaces cgroup: mount cgroupns-root when inside non-init cgroupns kernfs: define kernfs_node_dentry cgroup: cgroup namespace setns support cgroup: introduce cgroup namespaces sched: new clone flag CLONE_NEWCGROUP for cgroup namespace kernfs: Add API to generate relative kernfs path
2016-03-19Merge branch 'for-4.6' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+7
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: "cgroup changes for v4.6-rc1. No userland visible behavior changes in this pull request. I'll send out a separate pull request for the addition of cgroup namespace support. - The biggest change is the revamping of cgroup core task migration and controller handling logic. There are quite a few places where controllers and tasks are manipulated. Previously, many of those places implemented custom operations for each specific use case assuming specific starting conditions. While this worked, it makes the code fragile and difficult to follow. The bulk of this pull request restructures these operations so that most related operations are performed through common helpers which implement recursive (subtrees are always processed consistently) and idempotent (they make cgroup hierarchy converge to the target state rather than performing operations assuming specific starting conditions). This makes the code a lot easier to understand, verify and extend. - Implicit controller support is added. This is primarily for using perf_event on the v2 hierarchy so that perf can match cgroup v2 path without requiring the user to do anything special. The kernel portion of perf_event changes is acked but userland changes are still pending review. - cgroup_no_v1= boot parameter added to ease testing cgroup v2 in certain environments. - There is a regression introduced during v4.4 devel cycle where attempts to migrate zombie tasks can mess up internal object management. This was fixed earlier this week and included in this pull request w/ stable cc'd. - Misc non-critical fixes and improvements" * 'for-4.6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (44 commits) cgroup: avoid false positive gcc-6 warning cgroup: ignore css_sets associated with dead cgroups during migration Documentation: cgroup v2: Trivial heading correction. cgroup: implement cgroup_subsys->implicit_on_dfl cgroup: use css_set->mg_dst_cgrp for the migration target cgroup cgroup: make cgroup[_taskset]_migrate() take cgroup_root instead of cgroup cgroup: move migration destination verification out of cgroup_migrate_prepare_dst() cgroup: fix incorrect destination cgroup in cgroup_update_dfl_csses() cgroup: Trivial correction to reflect controller. cgroup: remove stale item in cgroup-v1 document INDEX file. cgroup: update css iteration in cgroup_update_dfl_csses() cgroup: allocate 2x cgrp_cset_links when setting up a new root cgroup: make cgroup_calc_subtree_ss_mask() take @this_ss_mask cgroup: reimplement rebind_subsystems() using cgroup_apply_control() and friends cgroup: use cgroup_apply_enable_control() in cgroup creation path cgroup: combine cgroup_mutex locking and offline css draining cgroup: factor out cgroup_{apply|finalize}_control() from cgroup_subtree_control_write() cgroup: introduce cgroup_{save|propagate|restore}_control() cgroup: make cgroup_drain_offline() and cgroup_apply_control_{disable|enable}() recursive cgroup: factor out cgroup_apply_control_enable() from cgroup_subtree_control_write() ...
2016-03-18mm: memcontrol: reclaim and OOM kill when shrinking memory.max below usageJohannes Weiner1-0/+6
Setting the original memory.limit_in_bytes hardlimit is subject to a race condition when the desired value is below the current usage. The code tries a few times to first reclaim and then see if the usage has dropped to where we would like it to be, but there is no locking, and the workload is free to continue making new charges up to the old limit. Thus, attempting to shrink a workload relies on pure luck and hope that the workload happens to cooperate. To fix this in the cgroup2 memory.max knob, do it the other way round: set the limit first, then try enforcement. And if reclaim is not able to succeed, trigger OOM kills in the group. Keep going until the new limit is met, we run out of OOM victims and there's only unreclaimable memory left, or the task writing to memory.max is killed. This allows users to shrink groups reliably, and the behavior is consistent with what happens when new charges are attempted in excess of memory.max. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-18mm: memcontrol: report kernel stack usage in cgroup2 memory.statVladimir Davydov1-0/+4
Show how much memory is allocated to kernel stacks. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-18mm: memcontrol: report slab usage in cgroup2 memory.statVladimir Davydov1-0/+15
Show how much memory is used for storing reclaimable and unreclaimable in-kernel data structures allocated from slab caches. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-11Documentation: cgroup v2: Trivial heading correction.Parav Pandit1-1/+1
Corrected the heading to match with index. Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <pandit.parav@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2016-02-16cgroup: document cgroup_no_v1=Johannes Weiner1-0/+6
Add cgroup_no_v1= to kernel-parameters.txt, and a small blurb to cgroup-v2.txt section about transitioning from cgroup to cgroup2. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2016-02-16cgroup: Add documentation for cgroup namespacesSerge Hallyn1-0/+147
Signed-off-by: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2016-02-10Merge branch 'for-4.5-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo: - The destruction path of cgroup objects are asynchronous and multi-staged and some of them ended up destroying parents before children leading to failures in cpu and memory controllers. Ensure that parents are always destroyed after children. - cpuset mm node migration was performed synchronously while holding threadgroup and cgroup mutexes and the recent threadgroup locking update resulted in a possible deadlock. The migration is best effort and shouldn't have been performed under those locks to begin with. Made asynchronous. - Minor documentation fix. * 'for-4.5-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: Documentation: cgroup: Fix 'cgroup-legacy' -> 'cgroup-v1' cgroup: make sure a parent css isn't freed before its children cgroup: make sure a parent css isn't offlined before its children cpuset: make mm migration asynchronous
2016-02-03Documentation: cgroup-v2: add memory.stat::sock descriptionJohannes Weiner1-0/+4
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-29Documentation: cgroup: Fix 'cgroup-legacy' -> 'cgroup-v1'W. Trevor King1-1/+1
This should have happened in 6255c46f (cgroup: rename cgroup documentations, 2016-01-11). Signed-off-by: W. Trevor King <wking@tremily.us> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2016-01-21mm: memcontrol: basic memory statistics in cgroup2 memory controllerJohannes Weiner1-0/+56
Provide a cgroup2 memory.stat that provides statistics on LRU memory and fault event counters. More consumers and breakdowns will follow. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-21Documentation: cgroup: add memory.swap.{current,max} descriptionVladimir Davydov1-0/+33
The rationale of separate swap counter is given by Johannes Weiner. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-12cgroup: rename cgroup documentationsTejun Heo1-0/+1293
cgroup-legacy may be too loaded. Rename the docs so that they're postfixed with v1 and v2. * s/cgroup-legacy/cgroup-v1/ * s/cgroup.txt/cgroup-v2.txt/ Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>