Re: [PATCH] cgroup: Show control files in cgroup2 root after mount

Waiman Long
2017-07-18T20:29:40Z

On 07/18/2017 04:12 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 04:00:45PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>> From my own debugging, the controller files (e.g. the debug controller)
>> were indirectly populated by the rebind_subsystems() call.
>>
>> [ 1.628103] css_populate_dir: init subsystem debug
> ...
>> [ 1.654975] cgroup_apply_control_enable+0x103/0x340
>> [ 1.657719] cgroup_apply_control+0x1a/0x30
>> [ 1.658521] rebind_subsystems+0x18a/0x3b0
> ...
>
> But there's kernfs_activate() call at the end of rebind_subsystems(),
> so if the files were being added there, it should have been activated
> there and I can confirm that the files are correctly added / removed
> from the cgroup2 root directory when controllers are attached to /
> detached from it.

I think the kernfs_activate() call is for the cgroup1 mount of debug
cgroup which probably failed as I put debug in the cgroup_no_v1= option.
The RHEL7 system that I ran the test on tried to do v1-mount of all the
cgroup controllers available. I am also wondering how a v1-mount of
debug controller will make the controller files appear on cgroup2 root.
Maybe I miss something in the code.

>> For the default cgroup2 root, kernfs_activate() was only called at the
>> beginning in cgroup_init() with only the base cgroup files added. No
>> more call after that until I touched the cgroup.subtree_control file.
> Hmm... we're activating at the end of
>
> * cgroup_setup_root()
> * rebind_subsystems()
> * cgroup_subtree_control_write()
> * cgroup_apply_cftypes() after successful addition
> * cgroup_mkdir()
>
> I *think* this should cover everything. Just in case, are you looking
> at the mainline kernel? Can you share how you can reproduce the
> issue?

My test kernel was built out of your latest cgroup git tree with the
thread mode patches on (review-cgroup2-threads-v3 branch).

As I said above, I put in the kernel command line option
"cgroup_no_v1=pids,debug,memory". Then I mounted the cgroup2 filesystem
after boot.

# mount -t cgroup2 cgroup2 /cgroup2
# ls /cgroup2/
cgroup.controllers cgroup.procs cgroup.subtree_control cgroup.threads
# echo +memory > /cgroup2/cgroup.subtree_control
# ls /cgroup2/
cgroup.controllers debug.current_css_set
cgroup.procs debug.current_css_set_cg_links
cgroup.subtree_control debug.current_css_set_refcount
cgroup.threads debug.masks
debug.csses debug.taskcount
debug.css_links

Cheers,
Longman