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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Add cgroup support for enabling controllers at boot time
Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:29:52 +0530 Balbir Singh wrote:
>
>> From: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
>>
>> The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are:
>>
>> - foo doesn't show up in /proc/cgroups
>> - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in a single hierarchy
>> - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable subsystem
>>
>> As a result there will only ever be one call to foo->create(), at init
>> time; all processes will stay in this group, and the group will never
>> be mounted on a visible hierarchy. Any additional effects (e.g. not
>> allocating metadata) are up to the foo subsystem.
>>
>> This doesn't handle early_init subsystems (their "disabled" bit isn't
>> set be, but it could easily be extended to do so if any of the early_init
>> systems wanted it - I think it would just involve some nastier parameter
>> processing since it would occur before the command-line argument parser
>> had been run.
>>
>> [Balbir added Documentation/kernel-parameters updates]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>
>> Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++++
>> include/linux/cgroup.h | 1 +
>> kernel/cgroup.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>> 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff -puN Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt~cgroup_disable Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
>> --- linux-2.6.25-rc4/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt~cgroup_disable 2008-03-06 17:57:32.000000000 +0530
>> +++ linux-2.6.25-rc4-balbir/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2008-03-06 18:00:32.000000000 +0530
>> @@ -383,6 +383,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters.
>> ccw_timeout_log [S390]
>> See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
>>
>> + cgroup_disable= [KNL] Enable disable a particular controller
>
> So it can enable or disable? or the text has extra text?
>

don't think so, should be "Disable a particular controller"

>> + Format: {name of the controller}
>> + See /proc/cgroups for a list of compiled controllers
>> +
>> checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
>> Format: { "0" | "1" }
>> See security/selinux/Kconfig help text.
>
>
> ---
> ~Randy
>
>



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