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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/pids.txt | 85 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt | 80 |
3 files changed, 159 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX b/Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX index 96ce071..3f5a40f 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/00-INDEX @@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ net_cls.txt - Network classifier cgroups details and usages. net_prio.txt - Network priority cgroups details and usages. +pids.txt + - Process number cgroups details and usages. resource_counter.txt - Resource Counter API. unified-hierarchy.txt diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/pids.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/pids.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1a078b5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/pids.txt @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ + Process Number Controller + ========================= + +Abstract +-------- + +The process number controller is used to allow a cgroup hierarchy to stop any +new tasks from being fork()'d or clone()'d after a certain limit is reached. + +Since it is trivial to hit the task limit without hitting any kmemcg limits in +place, PIDs are a fundamental resource. As such, PID exhaustion must be +preventable in the scope of a cgroup hierarchy by allowing resource limiting of +the number of tasks in a cgroup. + +Usage +----- + +In order to use the `pids` controller, set the maximum number of tasks in +pids.max (this is not available in the root cgroup for obvious reasons). The +number of processes currently in the cgroup is given by pids.current. + +Organisational operations are not blocked by cgroup policies, so it is possible +to have pids.current > pids.max. This can be done by either setting the limit to +be smaller than pids.current, or attaching enough processes to the cgroup such +that pids.current > pids.max. However, it is not possible to violate a cgroup +policy through fork() or clone(). fork() and clone() will return -EAGAIN if the +creation of a new process would cause a cgroup policy to be violated. + +To set a cgroup to have no limit, set pids.max to "max". This is the default for +all new cgroups (N.B. that PID limits are hierarchical, so the most stringent +limit in the hierarchy is followed). + +pids.current tracks all child cgroup hierarchies, so parent/pids.current is a +superset of parent/child/pids.current. + +Example +------- + +First, we mount the pids controller: +# mkdir -p /sys/fs/cgroup/pids +# mount -t cgroup -o pids none /sys/fs/cgroup/pids + +Then we create a hierarchy, set limits and attach processes to it: +# mkdir -p /sys/fs/cgroup/pids/parent/child +# echo 2 > /sys/fs/cgroup/pids/parent/pids.max +# echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/pids/parent/cgroup.procs +# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/pids/parent/pids.current +2 +# + +It should be noted that attempts to overcome the set limit (2 in this case) will +fail: + +# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/pids/parent/pids.current +2 +# ( /bin/echo "Here's some processes for you." | cat ) +sh: fork: Resource temporary unavailable +# + +Even if we migrate to a child cgroup (which doesn't have a set limit), we will +not be able to overcome the most stringent limit in the hierarchy (in this case, +parent's): + +# echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/pids/parent/child/cgroup.procs +# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/pids/parent/pids.current +2 +# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/pids/parent/child/pids.current +2 +# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/pids/parent/child/pids.max +max +# ( /bin/echo "Here's some processes for you." | cat ) +sh: fork: Resource temporary unavailable +# + +We can set a limit that is smaller than pids.current, which will stop any new +processes from being forked at all (note that the shell itself counts towards +pids.current): + +# echo 1 > /sys/fs/cgroup/pids/parent/pids.max +# /bin/echo "We can't even spawn a single process now." +sh: fork: Resource temporary unavailable +# echo 0 > /sys/fs/cgroup/pids/parent/pids.max +# /bin/echo "We can't even spawn a single process now." +sh: fork: Resource temporary unavailable +# diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt index 86847a7..1ee9caf 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt @@ -23,10 +23,13 @@ CONTENTS 5. Other Changes 5-1. [Un]populated Notification 5-2. Other Core Changes - 5-3. Per-Controller Changes - 5-3-1. blkio - 5-3-2. cpuset - 5-3-3. memory + 5-3. Controller File Conventions + 5-3-1. Format + 5-3-2. Control Knobs + 5-4. Per-Controller Changes + 5-4-1. blkio + 5-4-2. cpuset + 5-4-3. memory 6. Planned Changes 6-1. CAP for resource control @@ -372,14 +375,75 @@ supported and the interface files "release_agent" and - The "cgroup.clone_children" file is removed. -5-3. Per-Controller Changes +5-3. Controller File Conventions -5-3-1. blkio +5-3-1. Format + +In general, all controller files should be in one of the following +formats whenever possible. + +- Values only files + + VAL0 VAL1...\n + +- Flat keyed files + + KEY0 VAL0\n + KEY1 VAL1\n + ... + +- Nested keyed files + + KEY0 SUB_KEY0=VAL00 SUB_KEY1=VAL01... + KEY1 SUB_KEY0=VAL10 SUB_KEY1=VAL11... + ... + +For a writeable file, the format for writing should generally match +reading; however, controllers may allow omitting later fields or +implement restricted shortcuts for most common use cases. + +For both flat and nested keyed files, only the values for a single key +can be written at a time. For nested keyed files, the sub key pairs +may be specified in any order and not all pairs have to be specified. + + +5-3-2. Control Knobs + +- Settings for a single feature should generally be implemented in a + single file. + +- In general, the root cgroup should be exempt from resource control + and thus shouldn't have resource control knobs. + +- If a controller implements ratio based resource distribution, the + control knob should be named "weight" and have the range [1, 10000] + and 100 should be the default value. The values are chosen to allow + enough and symmetric bias in both directions while keeping it + intuitive (the default is 100%). + +- If a controller implements an absolute resource guarantee and/or + limit, the control knobs should be named "min" and "max" + respectively. If a controller implements best effort resource + gurantee and/or limit, the control knobs should be named "low" and + "high" respectively. + + In the above four control files, the special token "max" should be + used to represent upward infinity for both reading and writing. + +- If a setting has configurable default value and specific overrides, + the default settings should be keyed with "default" and appear as + the first entry in the file. Specific entries can use "default" as + its value to indicate inheritance of the default value. + + +5-4. Per-Controller Changes + +5-4-1. blkio - blk-throttle becomes properly hierarchical. -5-3-2. cpuset +5-4-2. cpuset - Tasks are kept in empty cpusets after hotplug and take on the masks of the nearest non-empty ancestor, instead of being moved to it. @@ -388,7 +452,7 @@ supported and the interface files "release_agent" and masks of the nearest non-empty ancestor. -5-3-3. memory +5-4-3. memory - use_hierarchy is on by default and the cgroup file for the flag is not created. |