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From: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
To: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Menage <menage@google.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroups: handle failure of cgroup_populate_dir() at mount/remount
Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 16:35:14 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A1663C2.4080401@cn.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090522172545.1e5e5f81.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> On Fri, 22 May 2009 11:00:12 +0800
> Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
>> Now we have 'stat' file in both memory and cpuacct subsystems. If we
>> mount these 2 subsystems with option 'noprefix', the creation of 'stat'
>> file for cpuacct will fail, but without any notificatin to the user.
>>
>> With this patch, we fail the mount/remount in this case.
>>
> 
> Hm, shouldn't we allow "noprefix" to be effective only agaisnt cpuset ?
> I think it's just for backward-compatibility of cpuset.
> (I don't like the option at all.)
> 

Yes, this mount option was introduced for cpuset. But it has been here for
a long time and people may use it when mounting other cgroup subsystems,
then is it OK to change to restrict its use within cpuset only?



  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-22  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-22  3:00 [PATCH] cgroups: handle failure of cgroup_populate_dir() at mount/remount Li Zefan
2009-05-22  8:25 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-05-22  8:35   ` Li Zefan [this message]
2009-05-22  8:34     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-05-22  9:10       ` Dhaval Giani
2009-05-25  9:14         ` Li Zefan
2009-05-25  9:47           ` Dhaval Giani
2009-05-26 22:06   ` Paul Menage
2009-05-27  1:07     ` Li Zefan
2009-05-27  1:34       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-05-27  3:24         ` Li Zefan
2009-05-27  6:16           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2009-05-25 13:17 ` Balbir Singh
2009-05-26  1:24   ` Li Zefan

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