cgroup: remove the ns_cgroup

The ns_cgroup is an annoying cgroup at the namespace / cgroup frontier and
leads to some problems:

  * cgroup creation is out-of-control
  * cgroup name can conflict when pids are looping
  * it is not possible to have a single process handling a lot of
    namespaces without falling in a exponential creation time
  * we may want to create a namespace without creating a cgroup

  The ns_cgroup was replaced by a compatibility flag 'clone_children',
  where a newly created cgroup will copy the parent cgroup values.
  The userspace has to manually create a cgroup and add a task to
  the 'tasks' file.

This patch removes the ns_cgroup as suggested in the following thread:

https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/containers/2009-June/018616.html

The 'cgroup_clone' function is removed because it is no longer used.

This is a userspace-visible change.  Commit 45531757b45c ("cgroup: notify
ns_cgroup deprecated") (merged into 2.6.27) caused the kernel to emit a
printk warning users that the feature is planned for removal.  Since that
time we have heard from XXX users who were affected by this.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

3 files changed, 0 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index 1e6cde21fa3..ab4ac0ccb85 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -555,9 +555,6 @@ static inline struct cgroup* task_cgroup(struct task_struct *task,
         return task_subsys_state(task, subsys_id)->cgroup;
 }
 
-int cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *tsk, struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
-                                                        char *nodename);
-
 /* A cgroup_iter should be treated as an opaque object */
 struct cgroup_iter {
         struct list_head *cg_link;
diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup_subsys.h b/include/linux/cgroup_subsys.h
index cdbfcb8780e..ac663c18776 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup_subsys.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup_subsys.h
@@ -19,12 +19,6 @@ SUBSYS(debug)
 
 /* */
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_NS
-SUBSYS(ns)
-#endif
-
-/* */
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED
 SUBSYS(cpu_cgroup)
 #endif
diff --git a/include/linux/nsproxy.h b/include/linux/nsproxy.h
index 7b370c7cfef..50d20aba57d 100644
--- a/include/linux/nsproxy.h
+++ b/include/linux/nsproxy.h
@@ -81,13 +81,4 @@ static inline void get_nsproxy(struct nsproxy *ns)
         atomic_inc(&ns->count);
 }
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_NS
-int ns_cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *tsk, struct pid *pid);
-#else
-static inline int ns_cgroup_clone(struct task_struct *tsk, struct pid *pid)
-{
-        return 0;
-}
-#endif
-
 #endif