From cf475ad28ac35cc9ba612d67158f29b73b38b05d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Balbir Singh Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 01:00:16 -0700 Subject: cgroups: add an owner to the mm_struct Remove the mem_cgroup member from mm_struct and instead adds an owner. This approach was suggested by Paul Menage. The advantage of this approach is that, once the mm->owner is known, using the subsystem id, the cgroup can be determined. It also allows several control groups that are virtually grouped by mm_struct, to exist independent of the memory controller i.e., without adding mem_cgroup's for each controller, to mm_struct. A new config option CONFIG_MM_OWNER is added and the memory resource controller selects this config option. This patch also adds cgroup callbacks to notify subsystems when mm->owner changes. The mm_cgroup_changed callback is called with the task_lock() of the new task held and is called just prior to changing the mm->owner. I am indebted to Paul Menage for the several reviews of this patchset and helping me make it lighter and simpler. This patch was tested on a powerpc box, it was compiled with both the MM_OWNER config turned on and off. After the thread group leader exits, it's moved to init_css_state by cgroup_exit(), thus all future charges from runnings threads would be redirected to the init_css_set's subsystem. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh Cc: Pavel Emelianov Cc: Hugh Dickins Cc: Sudhir Kumar Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi Cc: Hirokazu Takahashi Cc: David Rientjes , Cc: Balbir Singh Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Acked-by: Pekka Enberg Reviewed-by: Paul Menage Cc: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- init/Kconfig | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'init/Kconfig') diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig index a3457926342..98fa96eac41 100644 --- a/init/Kconfig +++ b/init/Kconfig @@ -378,9 +378,13 @@ config RESOURCE_COUNTERS infrastructure that works with cgroups depends on CGROUPS +config MM_OWNER + bool + config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR bool "Memory Resource Controller for Control Groups" depends on CGROUPS && RESOURCE_COUNTERS + select MM_OWNER help Provides a memory resource controller that manages both page cache and RSS memory. @@ -393,6 +397,9 @@ config CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR Only enable when you're ok with these trade offs and really sure you need the memory resource controller. + This config option also selects MM_OWNER config option, which + could in turn add some fork/exit overhead. + config SYSFS_DEPRECATED bool -- cgit v1.2.3