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cgroup: add cgroup_subsys->post_create()
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Currently, there's no way for a controller to find out whether a new
cgroup finished all ->create() allocatinos successfully and is
considered "live" by cgroup.

This becomes a problem later when we add generic descendants walking
to cgroup which can be used by controllers as controllers don't have a
synchronization point where it can synchronize against new cgroups
appearing in such walks.

This patch adds ->post_create().  It's called after all ->create()
succeeded and the cgroup is linked into the generic cgroup hierarchy.
This plays the counterpart of ->pre_destroy().

When used in combination with the to-be-added generic descendant
iterators, ->post_create() can be used to implement reliable state
inheritance.  It will be explained with the descendant iterators.

v2: Added a paragraph about its future use w/ descendant iterators per
    Michal.

v3: Forgot to add ->post_create() invocation to cgroup_load_subsys().
    Fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
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Tejun Heo committed Nov 9, 2012
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions include/linux/cgroup.h
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Expand Up @@ -438,6 +438,7 @@ int cgroup_taskset_size(struct cgroup_taskset *tset);

struct cgroup_subsys {
struct cgroup_subsys_state *(*create)(struct cgroup *cgrp);
void (*post_create)(struct cgroup *cgrp);
void (*pre_destroy)(struct cgroup *cgrp);
void (*destroy)(struct cgroup *cgrp);
int (*can_attach)(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cgroup_taskset *tset);
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15 changes: 13 additions & 2 deletions kernel/cgroup.c
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Expand Up @@ -4059,10 +4059,15 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup *parent, struct dentry *dentry,
if (err < 0)
goto err_remove;

/* each css holds a ref to the cgroup's dentry */
for_each_subsys(root, ss)
for_each_subsys(root, ss) {
/* each css holds a ref to the cgroup's dentry */
dget(dentry);

/* creation succeeded, notify subsystems */
if (ss->post_create)
ss->post_create(cgrp);
}

/* The cgroup directory was pre-locked for us */
BUG_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&cgrp->dentry->d_inode->i_mutex));

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ss->active = 1;

if (ss->post_create)
ss->post_create(&ss->root->top_cgroup);

/* this function shouldn't be used with modular subsystems, since they
* need to register a subsys_id, among other things */
BUG_ON(ss->module);
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ss->active = 1;

if (ss->post_create)
ss->post_create(&ss->root->top_cgroup);

/* success! */
mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
return 0;
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