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authorDaniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>2010-10-27 15:33:38 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-27 18:03:09 -0700
commit45531757b45cae0ce64c5aff08c2534d5a0fa3e7 (patch)
treedf9651eb91e4515684e055fa9454dce009be9ab4 /kernel
parentf4a2589feaef0a9b737a3e582b37ee96695bb25f (diff)
cgroup: notify ns_cgroup deprecated
The ns_cgroup will be removed very soon. Let's warn, for this version, ns_cgroup is deprecated. Make ns_cgroup and clone_children exclusive. If the clone_children is set and the ns_cgroup is mounted, let's fail with EINVAL when the ns_cgroup subsys is created (a printk will help the user to understand why the creation fails). Update the feature remove schedule file with the deprecated ns_cgroup. Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/ns_cgroup.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/ns_cgroup.c b/kernel/ns_cgroup.c
index 2a5dfec8efe..2c98ad94ba0 100644
--- a/kernel/ns_cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/ns_cgroup.c
@@ -85,6 +85,14 @@ static struct cgroup_subsys_state *ns_create(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
if (!cgroup_is_descendant(cgroup, current))
return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
+ if (test_bit(CGRP_CLONE_CHILDREN, &cgroup->flags)) {
+ printk("ns_cgroup can't be created with parent "
+ "'clone_children' set.\n");
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+ }
+
+ printk_once("ns_cgroup deprecated: consider using the "
+ "'clone_children' flag without the ns_cgroup.\n");
ns_cgroup = kzalloc(sizeof(*ns_cgroup), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!ns_cgroup)