Re: patch] cpusets, cgroups: disallow attaching kthreadd

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Tue Oct 18 2011 - 04:47:15 EST


On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 10:42 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> Why special case these two, why not simply disallow moving kthreadd into
> _any_ cgroup what so ever and be done with it?

These were the cases where it hurt, and cpusets don't have to be a
component of a cgroup. So we'd still need the cpuset bit.

>
> ---
> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
> index 453100a..18eed58 100644
> --- a/kernel/cgroup.c
> +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
> @@ -1824,6 +1824,9 @@ int cgroup_attach_task(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *tsk)
> struct cgroup *oldcgrp;
> struct cgroupfs_root *root = cgrp->root;
>
> + if (tsk == kthreadd_task)
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> /* Nothing to do if the task is already in that cgroup */
> oldcgrp = task_cgroup_from_root(tsk, root);
> if (cgrp == oldcgrp)
>


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