From a77aea92010acf54ad785047234418d5d68772e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Lezcano Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 16:25:23 -0700 Subject: 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 Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn Cc: Eric W. Biederman Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim Reviewed-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Paul Menage Acked-by: Matt Helsley Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/cpuset.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/cpuset.c') diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c index 55b297d..1ceeb04 100644 --- a/kernel/cpuset.c +++ b/kernel/cpuset.c @@ -1802,10 +1802,9 @@ static int cpuset_populate(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cont) } /* - * post_clone() is called at the end of cgroup_clone(). - * 'cgroup' was just created automatically as a result of - * a cgroup_clone(), and the current task is about to - * be moved into 'cgroup'. + * post_clone() is called during cgroup_create() when the + * clone_children mount argument was specified. The cgroup + * can not yet have any tasks. * * Currently we refuse to set up the cgroup - thereby * refusing the task to be entered, and as a result refusing -- cgit v1.1