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Commit 2c6ab6d2 authored by Paul Menage's avatar Paul Menage Committed by Linus Torvalds
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cgroups: allow cgroup hierarchies to be created with no bound subsystems



This patch removes the restriction that a cgroup hierarchy must have at
least one bound subsystem.  The mount option "none" is treated as an
explicit request for no bound subsystems.

A hierarchy with no subsystems can be useful for plain task tracking, and
is also a step towards the support for multiply-bindable subsystems.

As part of this change, the hierarchy id is no longer calculated from the
bitmask of subsystems in the hierarchy (since this is not guaranteed to be
unique) but is allocated via an ida.  Reference counts on cgroups from
css_set objects are now taken explicitly one per hierarchy, rather than
one per subsystem.

Example usage:

mount -t cgroup -o none,name=foo cgroup /mnt/cgroup

Based on the "no-op"/"none" subsystem concept proposed by
kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Menage <menage@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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