cpuset: allow to move tasks to empty cpusets

Currently some cpuset behaviors are not friendly when cpuset is co-mounted
with other cgroup controllers.

Now with this patchset if cpuset is mounted with sane_behavior option,
it behaves differently:

- Tasks will be kept in empty cpusets when hotplug happens and take
  masks of ancestors with non-empty cpus/mems, instead of being moved to
  an ancestor.

- A task can be moved into an empty cpuset, and again it takes masks of
  ancestors, so the user can drop a task into a newly created cgroup without
  having to do anything for it.

As tasks can reside in empy cpusets, here're some rules:

- They can be moved to another cpuset, regardless it's empty or not.

- Though it takes masks from ancestors, it takes other configs from the
  empty cpuset.

- If the ancestors' masks are changed, those tasks will also be updated
  to take new masks.

v2: add documentation in include/linux/cgroup.h

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index 53e81a61be57..74e8b8e4cd7f 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -281,6 +281,9 @@ enum {
          *   and take masks of ancestors with non-empty cpus/mems, instead of
          *   being moved to an ancestor.
          *
+         * - cpuset: a task can be moved into an empty cpuset, and again it
+         *   takes masks of ancestors.
+         *
          * - memcg: use_hierarchy is on by default and the cgroup file for
          *   the flag is not created.
          *