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  1. 20 Oct, 2008 1 commit
    • Matt Helsley's avatar
      container freezer: implement freezer cgroup subsystem · dc52ddc0
      Matt Helsley authored 
      
This patch implements a new freezer subsystem in the control groups
framework.  It provides a way to stop and resume execution of all tasks in
a cgroup by writing in the cgroup filesystem.

The freezer subsystem in the container filesystem defines a file named
freezer.state.  Writing "FROZEN" to the state file will freeze all tasks
in the cgroup.  Subsequently writing "RUNNING" will unfreeze the tasks in
the cgroup.  Reading will return the current state.

* Examples of usage :

   # mkdir /containers/freezer
   # mount -t cgroup -ofreezer freezer  /containers
   # mkdir /containers/0
   # echo $some_pid > /containers/0/tasks

to get status of the freezer subsystem :

   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   RUNNING

to freeze all tasks in the container :

   # echo FROZEN > /containers/0/freezer.state
   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   FREEZING
   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   FROZEN

to unfreeze all tasks in the container :

   # echo RUNNING > /containers/0/freezer.state
   # cat /containers/0/freezer.state
   RUNNING

This is the basic mechanism which should do the right thing for user space
task in a simple scenario.

It's important to note that freezing can be incomplete.  In that case we
return EBUSY.  This means that some tasks in the cgroup are busy doing
something that prevents us from completely freezing the cgroup at this
time.  After EBUSY, the cgroup will remain partially frozen -- reflected
by freezer.state reporting "FREEZING" when read.  The state will remain
"FREEZING" until one of these things happens:

	1) Userspace cancels the freezing operation by writing "RUNNING" to
		the freezer.state file
	2) Userspace retries the freezing operation by writing "FROZEN" to
		the freezer.state file (writing "FREEZING" is not legal
		and returns EIO)
	3) The tasks that blocked the cgroup from entering the "FROZEN"
		state disappear from the cgroup's set of tasks.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export thaw_process]
Signed-off-by: default avatarCedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarMatt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      dc52ddc0
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    • Paul Mundt's avatar
      sh: Fix up SH7710 VoIP-GW build. · e7d7deca
      Paul Mundt authored 
      
The only board-specific bits that existed here were for setting up the
IRQs, which are now handled by the SH7710 CPU support code instead. As
there's nothing else to do for setup, kill off the board support code
and have the defconfig use the generic machvec instead.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      e7d7deca
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    • Adrian Bunk's avatar
      remove Documentation/smp.txt · 03502faa
      Adrian Bunk authored 
      
After seeing the filename I'd have expected something about the
implementation of SMP in the Linux kernel - not some notes on kernel
configuration and building trivialities noone would search at this
place.
Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
      03502faa
    • Mathieu Desnoyers's avatar
      Move Kconfig.instrumentation to arch/Kconfig and init/Kconfig · 125e5645
      Mathieu Desnoyers authored 
      
Move the instrumentation Kconfig to

arch/Kconfig for architecture dependent options
  - oprofile
  - kprobes

and

init/Kconfig for architecture independent options
  - profiling
  - markers

Remove the "Instrumentation Support" menu. Everything moves to "General setup".
Delete the kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation file.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      125e5645
    • Mathieu Desnoyers's avatar
      Add HAVE_OPROFILE · 42d4b839
      Mathieu Desnoyers authored 
      
Linus:
On the per-architecture side, I do think it would be better to *not* have
internal architecture knowledge in a generic file, and as such a line like

        depends on X86_32 || IA64 || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || X86_64 || AVR32

really shouldn't exist in a file like kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation.

It would be much better to do

        depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES

in that generic file, and then architectures that do support it would just
have a

        bool ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES
                default y

in *their* architecture files. That would seem to be much more logical,
and is readable both for arch maintainers *and* for people who have no
clue - and don't care - about which architecture is supposed to support
which interface...

Changelog:

Actually, I know I gave this as the magic incantation, but now that I see
it, I realize that I should have told you to just use

        config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES
                def_bool y

instead, which is a bit denser.

We seem to use both kinds of syntax for these things, but this is really
what "def_bool" is there for...

Changelog :

- Moving to HAVE_*.
- Add AVR32 oprofile.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      42d4b839
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