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authorDaisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>2010-03-10 15:22:03 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-03-12 15:52:35 -0800
commit2468c7234b366eeb799ee0648cb58f9cba394a54 (patch)
tree050d7ea224b975eb71b05bf472f14f4c7bb13670 /Documentation/cgroups
parent5ce9f07bf1bed9a1f9886373ad0b149294f84c25 (diff)
cgroup: introduce cancel_attach()
Add cancel_attach() operation to struct cgroup_subsys. cancel_attach() can be used when can_attach() operation prepares something for the subsys, but we should rollback what can_attach() operation has prepared if attach task fails after we've succeeded in can_attach(). Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
index 0b33bfe7dde9..d45082653e3d 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
@@ -536,10 +536,21 @@ returns an error, this will abort the attach operation. If a NULL
task is passed, then a successful result indicates that *any*
unspecified task can be moved into the cgroup. Note that this isn't
called on a fork. If this method returns 0 (success) then this should
-remain valid while the caller holds cgroup_mutex. If threadgroup is
+remain valid while the caller holds cgroup_mutex and it is ensured that either
+attach() or cancel_attach() will be called in future. If threadgroup is
true, then a successful result indicates that all threads in the given
thread's threadgroup can be moved together.
+void cancel_attach(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp,
+ struct task_struct *task, bool threadgroup)
+(cgroup_mutex held by caller)
+
+Called when a task attach operation has failed after can_attach() has succeeded.
+A subsystem whose can_attach() has some side-effects should provide this
+function, so that the subsytem can implement a rollback. If not, not necessary.
+This will be called only about subsystems whose can_attach() operation have
+succeeded.
+
void attach(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp,
struct cgroup *old_cgrp, struct task_struct *task,
bool threadgroup)