[PATCH 2/5] sched: new clone flag CLONE_NEWCGROUP for cgroup namespace

Serge Hallyn serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com
Thu Jul 24 17:01:19 UTC 2014


Quoting Aditya Kali (adityakali at google.com):
> CLONE_NEWCGROUP will be used to create new cgroup namespace.
> 

This is fine and I'm not looking to bikeshed, but am wondering - did
you consider any other ways beside unshare (i.e. a new mount option
to cgroupfs)?  If so, do you have a list of the downsides of those?
(I mainly ask bc clone flags are still a scarce commodity)

> Signed-off-by: Aditya Kali <adityakali at google.com>

Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com>

> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/sched.h | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/sched.h b/include/uapi/linux/sched.h
> index 34f9d73..2f90d00 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/sched.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/sched.h
> @@ -21,8 +21,7 @@
>  #define CLONE_DETACHED		0x00400000	/* Unused, ignored */
>  #define CLONE_UNTRACED		0x00800000	/* set if the tracing process can't force CLONE_PTRACE on this clone */
>  #define CLONE_CHILD_SETTID	0x01000000	/* set the TID in the child */
> -/* 0x02000000 was previously the unused CLONE_STOPPED (Start in stopped state)
> -   and is now available for re-use. */
> +#define CLONE_NEWCGROUP		0x02000000	/* New cgroup namespace */
>  #define CLONE_NEWUTS		0x04000000	/* New utsname group? */
>  #define CLONE_NEWIPC		0x08000000	/* New ipcs */
>  #define CLONE_NEWUSER		0x10000000	/* New user namespace */
> -- 
> 2.0.0.526.g5318336
> 
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