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    SubjectBC: resource beancounters (v6) (with userpages reclamation + configfs)
    MAJOR CHANGES in v6 (see details below):
    - configfs interface instead of syscalls (as wanted by CKRM people...)
    - added numfiles resource accounting
    - added numtasks resource accounting

    numfiles and numtasks controllers demonstrate how
    clean and simple BC interface is.

    Patch set is applicable to 2.6.19-rc5-mm1

    -----------------------------------------------------

    Resource BeanCounters (BC).

    BC allows to account and control consumption
    of kernel resources used by *group* of processes
    (users, containers, ...).

    Draft BC description on OpenVZ wiki can be found at
    http://wiki.openvz.org/UBC_parameters

    The full BC patch set allows to control:
    - kernel memory. All the kernel objects allocatable
    on user demand and not reclaimable should be accounted and
    limited for DoS protection.
    e.g. page tables, task structs, vmas etc.

    - virtual memory pages. BCs allow to
    limit a container to some amount of memory and
    introduces 2-level OOM killer taking into account
    container's consumption.
    pages shared between containers are correctly
    charged as fractions (tunable).

    - network buffers. These includes TCP/IP rcv/snd
    buffers, dgram snd buffers, unix, netlinks and
    other buffers.

    - minor resources accounted/limited by number:
    tasks, files, flocks, ptys, siginfo, pinned dcache
    mem, sockets, iptentries (for containers with
    virtualized networking)

    Summary of changes from v5 patch set:
    * configfs interface instead of syscalls (as wanted by CKRM people)
    * added numfiles resource accounting
    * added numtasks resource accounting
    * introduced dummy_resource to handle case when
    no resource registered
    * calls to rss accounting are integrated to rmap calls

    Summary of changes from v4 patch set:
    * changed set of resources - kmemsize, privvmpages, physpages
    * added event hooks for resources (init, limit hit etc)
    * added user pages reclamation (bc_try_to_free_pages)
    * removed pages sharing accounting - charge to first user
    * task now carries only one BC pointer, simplified
    * make set_bcid syscall move arbitrary task into BC
    * resources are not recharged when task moves
    * each vm_area_struct carries a BC pointer

    Summary of changes from v3 patch set:

    * Added basic user pages accounting (lockedpages/privvmpages)
    * spell in Kconfig
    * Makefile reworked
    * EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
    * union w/o name in struct page
    * bc_task_charge is void now
    * adjust minheld/maxheld splitted

    Summary of changes from v2 patch set:

    * introduced atomic_dec_and_lock_irqsave()
    * bc_adjust_held_minmax comment
    * added __must_check for bc_*charge* funcs
    * use hash_long() instead of own one
    * bc/Kconfig is sourced from init/Kconfig now
    * introduced bcid_t type with comment from Alan Cox
    * check for barrier <= limit in sys_set_bclimit()
    * removed (bc == NULL) checks
    * replaced memcpy in beancounter_findcrate with assignment
    * moved check 'if (mask & BC_ALLOC)' out of the lock
    * removed unnecessary memset()

    Summary of changes from v1 patch set:

    * CONFIG_BEANCOUNTERS is 'n' by default
    * fixed Kconfig includes in arches
    * removed hierarchical beancounters to simplify first patchset
    * removed unused 'private' pointer
    * removed unused EXPORTS
    * MAXVALUE redeclared as LONG_MAX
    * beancounter_findcreate clarification
    * renamed UBC -> BC, ub -> bc etc.
    * moved BC inheritance into copy_process
    * introduced reset_exec_bc() with proposed BUG_ON
    * removed task_bc beancounter (not used yet, for numproc)
    * fixed syscalls for sparc
    * added sys_get_bcstat(): return info that was in /proc
    * cond_syscall instead of #ifdefs

    Many thanks to Oleg Nesterov, Alan Cox, Matt Helsley and others
    for patch review and comments.

    Thanks,
    Kirill
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