From 8b5a5a9dbca914d1f7d70276024d1525a3c94081 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 12:09:54 -0700 Subject: cgroup: deprecate remount option changes This patch marks the following features for deprecation. * Rebinding subsys by remount: Never reached useful state - only works on empty hierarchies. * release_agent update by remount: release_agent itself will be replaced with conventional fsnotify notification. v2: Lennart pointed out that "name=" is necessary for mounts w/o any controller attached. Drop "name=" deprecation. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Li Zefan Cc: Lennart Poettering --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index c1be8066ea59..5298e126cea3 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -539,3 +539,12 @@ Why: There appear to be no production users of the get_robust_list syscall, of ASLR. It was only ever intended for debugging, so it should be removed. Who: Kees Cook + +---------------------------- + +What: cgroup option updates via remount +When: March 2013 +Why: Remount currently allows changing bound subsystems and + release_agent. Rebinding is hardly useful as it only works + when the hierarchy is empty and release_agent itself should be + replaced with conventional fsnotify. -- cgit v1.2.2