Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Feb 2009 09:20:31 +0900 | From | KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] cgroup allow subsys to set default mode of its own file |
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:00:05 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:35:55 +0900 > KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> wrote: > > > When I wrote tools for maintain cgroup, I can't find which file is > > writable intarfece or not via cgroup file systems. (finally, I did > > dirty approach.) > > IMHO, showing "this file is read-only" in explicit way is useful > > for user-land (tools). In other story, a file whose name sounds read-only > > may have "trigger" operation and support reseting. In this case, > > "writable" is informative. > > Well, we have compatibility issues here. If we make this change, and > people write tools which depend upon that change then those tools might > break when run upon older kernels. Or they need back-compatibility > additions, which increases the testing burden of those tools. > > One way in which we could improve this situation is to backport these > changes into earlier kernels, although I don't know which versions. > > What do we think? > It sounds problem to me.
Hmm..1st commit to kernel/cgroup.c is 2007-10-19, then 2.6.24 is the oldest one. But I think distro's tools for cgroup is not as old as... Hmm, backport to 2.6.25 is enough ? Balbir, how do you think ? I think you are familiar with libcgroup.
Thanks, -Kame
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