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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-07-06 09:52:09 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-07-06 09:52:09 -0700 |
commit | 9ced560b82606b35adb33a27012a148d418a4c1f (patch) | |
tree | 7f02be0aeab9ed48a0fd94e53a96d08f0551464e /Documentation | |
parent | 109a5db5042c035ded330b948a710b9a0c20934d (diff) | |
parent | 5136f6365ce3eace5a926e10f16ed2a233db5ba9 (diff) | |
download | linux-9ced560b82606b35adb33a27012a148d418a4c1f.tar.bz2 |
Merge branch 'for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup changes from Tejun Heo:
- Waiman made the debug controller work and a lot more useful on
cgroup2
- There were a couple issues with cgroup subtree delegation. The
documentation on delegating to a non-root user was missing some part
and cgroup namespace support wasn't factoring in delegation at all.
The documentation is updated and the now there is a mount option to
make cgroup namespace fit for delegation
* 'for-4.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
cgroup: implement "nsdelegate" mount option
cgroup: restructure cgroup_procs_write_permission()
cgroup: "cgroup.subtree_control" should be writeable by delegatee
cgroup: fix lockdep warning in debug controller
cgroup: refactor cgroup_masks_read() in the debug controller
cgroup: make debug an implicit controller on cgroup2
cgroup: Make debug cgroup support v2 and thread mode
cgroup: Make Kconfig prompt of debug cgroup more accurate
cgroup: Move debug cgroup to its own file
cgroup: Keep accurate count of tasks in each css_set
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt | 60 |
1 files changed, 43 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt index dc5e2dcdbef4..558c3a739baf 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt @@ -149,6 +149,16 @@ during boot, before manual intervention is possible. To make testing and experimenting easier, the kernel parameter cgroup_no_v1= allows disabling controllers in v1 and make them always available in v2. +cgroup v2 currently supports the following mount options. + + nsdelegate + + Consider cgroup namespaces as delegation boundaries. This + option is system wide and can only be set on mount or modified + through remount from the init namespace. The mount option is + ignored on non-init namespace mounts. Please refer to the + Delegation section for details. + 2-2. Organizing Processes @@ -308,18 +318,27 @@ file. 2-5-1. Model of Delegation -A cgroup can be delegated to a less privileged user by granting write -access of the directory and its "cgroup.procs" file to the user. Note -that resource control interface files in a given directory control the -distribution of the parent's resources and thus must not be delegated -along with the directory. - -Once delegated, the user can build sub-hierarchy under the directory, -organize processes as it sees fit and further distribute the resources -it received from the parent. The limits and other settings of all -resource controllers are hierarchical and regardless of what happens -in the delegated sub-hierarchy, nothing can escape the resource -restrictions imposed by the parent. +A cgroup can be delegated in two ways. First, to a less privileged +user by granting write access of the directory and its "cgroup.procs" +and "cgroup.subtree_control" files to the user. Second, if the +"nsdelegate" mount option is set, automatically to a cgroup namespace +on namespace creation. + +Because the resource control interface files in a given directory +control the distribution of the parent's resources, the delegatee +shouldn't be allowed to write to them. For the first method, this is +achieved by not granting access to these files. For the second, the +kernel rejects writes to all files other than "cgroup.procs" and +"cgroup.subtree_control" on a namespace root from inside the +namespace. + +The end results are equivalent for both delegation types. Once +delegated, the user can build sub-hierarchy under the directory, +organize processes inside it as it sees fit and further distribute the +resources it received from the parent. The limits and other settings +of all resource controllers are hierarchical and regardless of what +happens in the delegated sub-hierarchy, nothing can escape the +resource restrictions imposed by the parent. Currently, cgroup doesn't impose any restrictions on the number of cgroups in or nesting depth of a delegated sub-hierarchy; however, @@ -329,10 +348,12 @@ this may be limited explicitly in the future. 2-5-2. Delegation Containment A delegated sub-hierarchy is contained in the sense that processes -can't be moved into or out of the sub-hierarchy by the delegatee. For -a process with a non-root euid to migrate a target process into a -cgroup by writing its PID to the "cgroup.procs" file, the following -conditions must be met. +can't be moved into or out of the sub-hierarchy by the delegatee. + +For delegations to a less privileged user, this is achieved by +requiring the following conditions for a process with a non-root euid +to migrate a target process into a cgroup by writing its PID to the +"cgroup.procs" file. - The writer must have write access to the "cgroup.procs" file. @@ -359,6 +380,11 @@ destination cgroup C00 is above the points of delegation and U0 would not have write access to its "cgroup.procs" files and thus the write will be denied with -EACCES. +For delegations to namespaces, containment is achieved by requiring +that both the source and destination cgroups are reachable from the +namespace of the process which is attempting the migration. If either +is not reachable, the migration is rejected with -ENOENT. + 2-6. Guidelines @@ -1413,7 +1439,7 @@ D. Deprecated v1 Core Features - Multiple hierarchies including named ones are not supported. -- All mount options and remounting are not supported. +- All v1 mount options are not supported. - The "tasks" file is removed and "cgroup.procs" is not sorted. |