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- remove 'releasable' since it has been moved to the debug subsys.
- update lock requirements of subsys callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Menage <[email protected]>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Cc: Balbir Singh <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Li Zefan authored and torvalds committed Jan 8, 2009
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Expand Up @@ -227,7 +227,6 @@ Each cgroup is represented by a directory in the cgroup file system
containing the following files describing that cgroup:

- tasks: list of tasks (by pid) attached to that cgroup
- releasable flag: cgroup currently removeable?
- notify_on_release flag: run the release agent on exit?
- release_agent: the path to use for release notifications (this file
exists in the top cgroup only)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -360,7 +359,7 @@ Now you want to do something with this cgroup.

In this directory you can find several files:
# ls
notify_on_release releasable tasks
notify_on_release tasks
(plus whatever files added by the attached subsystems)

Now attach your shell to this cgroup:
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -479,7 +478,6 @@ newly-created cgroup if an error occurs after this subsystem's
create() method has been called for the new cgroup).

void pre_destroy(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp);
(cgroup_mutex held by caller)

Called before checking the reference count on each subsystem. This may
be useful for subsystems which have some extra references even if
Expand All @@ -498,6 +496,7 @@ remain valid while the caller holds cgroup_mutex.

void attach(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp,
struct cgroup *old_cgrp, struct task_struct *task)
(cgroup_mutex held by caller)

Called after the task has been attached to the cgroup, to allow any
post-attachment activity that requires memory allocations or blocking.
Expand All @@ -511,6 +510,7 @@ void exit(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct task_struct *task)
Called during task exit.

int populate(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp)
(cgroup_mutex held by caller)

Called after creation of a cgroup to allow a subsystem to populate
the cgroup directory with file entries. The subsystem should make
Expand All @@ -520,6 +520,7 @@ method can return an error code, the error code is currently not
always handled well.

void post_clone(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp)
(cgroup_mutex held by caller)

Called at the end of cgroup_clone() to do any paramater
initialization which might be required before a task could attach. For
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