[PATCH v2 1/2] cgroups: add documentation on extended attributes usage

Aristeu Rozanski
2012-09-11T20:28:24Z

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v2: update cgroups.txt instead of creating a new file

Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lpoetter@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>

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Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: github/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
===================================================================
--- github.orig/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt 2012-08-16 10:24:48.437596817 -0400
+++ github/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt 2012-09-07 10:23:19.974357952 -0400
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@
3.1 Overview
3.2 Synchronization
3.3 Subsystem API
-4. Questions
+4. Extended attributes usage
+5. Questions

1. Control Groups
=================
@@ -650,7 +651,26 @@
the default hierarchy (which never has sub-cgroups) and a hierarchy
that is being created/destroyed (and hence has no sub-cgroups).

-4. Questions
+4. Extended attribute usage
+===========================
+
+cgroup filesystem supports certain types of extended attributes in its
+directories and files. The current supported types are:
+ - Trusted (XATTR_TRUSTED)
+ - Security (XATTR_SECURITY)
+
+Both require CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability to set.
+
+Like in tmpfs, the extended attributes in cgroup filesystem are stored
+using kernel memory and it's advised to keep the usage at minimum. This
+is the reason why user defined extended attributes are not supported, since
+any user can do it and there's no limit in the value size.
+
+The current known users for this feature are SELinux to limit cgroup usage
+in containers and systemd for assorted meta data like main PID in a cgroup
+(systemd creates a cgroup per service).
+
+5. Questions
============

Q: what's up with this '/bin/echo' ?