Task Control Groups: add cgroup_clone() interface

Add support for cgroup_clone(), a way to create new cgroups intended to
be used for systems such as namespace unsharing.  A new subsystem callback,
post_clone(), is added to allow subsystems to automatically configure cloned
cgroups.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Serge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups.txt
index 4717887fd75d..553727cc9944 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups.txt
@@ -504,6 +504,13 @@ include/linux/cgroup.h for details).  Note that although this
 method can return an error code, the error code is currently not
 always handled well.
 
+void post_clone(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cont)
+
+Called at the end of cgroup_clone() to do any paramater
+initialization which might be required before a task could attach.  For
+example in cpusets, no task may attach before 'cpus' and 'mems' are set
+up.
+
 void bind(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *root)
 LL=callback_mutex