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authorBen Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>2010-03-10 15:22:09 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-03-12 15:52:36 -0800
commite6a1105ba08b265023dd71a4174fb4a29ebc7083 (patch)
treec171a012df4364b0feac5d6f1bf8c354164ab0f9 /Documentation
parentaae8aab40367036931608fdaf9e2dc568b516f19 (diff)
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cgroups: subsystem module loading interface
Add interface between cgroups subsystem management and module loading This patch implements rudimentary module-loading support for cgroups - namely, a cgroup_load_subsys (similar to cgroup_init_subsys) for use as a module initcall, and a struct module pointer in struct cgroup_subsys. Several functions that might be wanted by modules have had EXPORT_SYMBOL added to them, but it's unclear exactly which functions want it and which won't. Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> 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.txt4
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diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
index d45082653e3d..ae8a037a761e 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt
@@ -488,6 +488,10 @@ Each subsystem should:
- add an entry in linux/cgroup_subsys.h
- define a cgroup_subsys object called <name>_subsys
+If a subsystem can be compiled as a module, it should also have in its
+module initcall a call to cgroup_load_subsys(&its_subsys_struct). It
+should also set its_subsys.module = THIS_MODULE in its .c file.
+
Each subsystem may export the following methods. The only mandatory
methods are create/destroy. Any others that are null are presumed to
be successful no-ops.