Re: [PATCH] Add cgroup support for enabling controllers at boot time

[David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Balbir Singh wrote:

> @@ -3010,3 +3020,16 @@ static void cgroup_release_agent(struct 
>  	spin_unlock(&release_list_lock);
>  	mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
>  }
> +
> +static int __init cgroup_disable(char *str)
> +{
> +	int i;
> +	for (i = 0; i < CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT; i++) {
> +		struct cgroup_subsys *ss = subsys[i];
> +		if (!strcmp(str, ss->name)) {
> +			ss->disabled = 1;
> +			break;
> +		}
> +	}
> +}
> +__setup("cgroup_disable=", cgroup_disable);

This doesn't handle spaces very well, so isn't it possible for the name of 
a current or future cgroup subsystem to be specified after cgroup_disable= 
on the command line and have it disabled by accident?

> diff -puN Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt~cgroup_disable Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
> --- linux-2.6.25-rc4/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt~cgroup_disable	2008-03-06 17:57:32.000000000 +0530
> +++ linux-2.6.25-rc4-balbir/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt	2008-03-06 18:00:32.000000000 +0530
> @@ -383,6 +383,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. 
>  	ccw_timeout_log [S390]
>  			See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
>  
> +	cgroup_disable= [KNL] Enable disable a particular controller
> +			Format: {name of the controller}
> +			See /proc/cgroups for a list of compiled controllers
> +

This works on multiple controllers, though, if they follow 
cgroup_disable=, so the documentation and format should reflect that.

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