Re: [PATCH] Add cgroup support for enabling controllers at boot time

[Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

Li Zefan wrote:
> 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"
> 

Agreed and fixed.

Thanks,


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	Balbir Singh
	Linux Technology Center
	IBM, ISTL