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| author | Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu> | 2010-03-10 15:22:09 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-03-12 15:52:36 -0800 |
| commit | cf5d5941fda647fe3d2f2d00cf9e0245236a5f08 (patch) | |
| tree | deee6501f2f08089a2cd62732c3848a59a6f6a93 /include | |
| parent | e6a1105ba08b265023dd71a4174fb4a29ebc7083 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-cf5d5941fda647fe3d2f2d00cf9e0245236a5f08.tar.gz lwn-cf5d5941fda647fe3d2f2d00cf9e0245236a5f08.zip | |
cgroups: subsystem module unloading
Provides support for unloading modular subsystems.
This patch adds a new function cgroup_unload_subsys which is to be used
for removing a loaded subsystem during module deletion. Reference
counting of the subsystems' modules is moved from once (at load time) to
once per attached hierarchy (in parse_cgroupfs_options and
rebind_subsystems) (i.e., 0 or 1).
Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/cgroup.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h index 402ce477c47e..2a59d3101e5d 100644 --- a/include/linux/cgroup.h +++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ extern void cgroup_exit(struct task_struct *p, int run_callbacks); extern int cgroupstats_build(struct cgroupstats *stats, struct dentry *dentry); extern int cgroup_load_subsys(struct cgroup_subsys *ss); +extern void cgroup_unload_subsys(struct cgroup_subsys *ss); extern const struct file_operations proc_cgroup_operations; @@ -271,7 +272,8 @@ struct css_set { /* * Set of subsystem states, one for each subsystem. This array * is immutable after creation apart from the init_css_set - * during subsystem registration (at boot time). + * during subsystem registration (at boot time) and modular subsystem + * loading/unloading. */ struct cgroup_subsys_state *subsys[CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT]; |