From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>,
Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>,
Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Maya B . Gokhale" <gokhale2@llnl.gov>,
Yang Shi <yang.shi@linux.alibaba.com>,
Marty Mcfadden <mcfadden8@llnl.gov>,
Kirill Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>,
Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] mm: Trial do_wp_page() simplification
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 16:55:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200921145537.GM12990@dhcp22.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200921144355.mrzc66lina3dkfjq@wittgenstein>
On Mon 21-09-20 16:43:55, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:38:47AM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 04:28:34PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > Fundamentaly CLONE_INTO_CGROUP is similar to regular fork + move to the
> > > target cgroup after the child gets executed. So in principle there
> > > shouldn't be any big difference. Except that the move has to be explicit
> > > and the the child has to have enough privileges to move itself. I am not
> >
> > Yeap, they're supposed to be the same operations. We've never clearly
> > defined how the accounting gets split across moves because 1. it's
> > inherently blurry and difficult 2. doesn't make any practical difference for
> > the recommended and vast majority usage pattern which uses migration to seed
> > the new cgroup. CLONE_INTO_CGROUP doesn't change any of that.
> >
> > > completely sure about CLONE_INTO_CGROUP model though. According to man
> > > clone(2) it seems that O_RDONLY for the target cgroup directory is
> > > sufficient. That seems much more relaxed IIUC and it would allow to fork
> > > into a different cgroup while keeping a lot of resources in the parent's
> > > proper.
> >
> > If the man page is documenting that, it's wrong. cgroup_css_set_fork() has
> > an explicit cgroup_may_write() test on the destination cgroup.
> > CLONE_INTO_CGROUP should follow exactly the same rules as regular
> > migrations.
>
> Indeed!
> The O_RDONLY mention on the manpage doesn't make sense but it is
> explained that the semantics are exactly the same for moving via the
> filesystem:
OK, if the semantic is the same as for the task migration then I do not
see any (new) problems. Care to point me where the actual check is
enforced? For the migration you need a write access to cgroup.procs but
if the API expects directory fd then I am not sure how that would expose
the same behavior.
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-21 14:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 98+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-21 23:49 [PATCH 0/4] mm: Simplfy cow handling Peter Xu
2020-08-21 23:49 ` [PATCH 1/4] mm: Trial do_wp_page() simplification Peter Xu
2020-08-24 8:36 ` Kirill Tkhai
2020-08-24 14:30 ` Jan Kara
2020-08-24 15:37 ` Kirill Tkhai
2020-08-24 18:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-01 7:01 ` Hugh Dickins
2020-09-14 14:38 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-14 17:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-14 18:34 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-14 21:15 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-14 22:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-14 22:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-14 23:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-15 0:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-15 14:50 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-15 15:17 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-15 16:05 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-15 18:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-15 19:13 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-15 19:38 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-15 21:33 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-15 23:22 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-16 1:50 ` John Hubbard
2020-09-16 17:48 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-16 18:46 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-17 11:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-17 18:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-17 19:38 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-17 19:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-18 16:40 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-18 17:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-18 19:57 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-18 17:32 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-18 20:40 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-18 20:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-19 0:28 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-18 21:06 ` John Hubbard
2020-09-19 0:01 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-21 8:35 ` Jan Kara
2020-09-21 12:03 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-02-16 16:59 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-02-16 17:24 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-02-16 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2022-02-16 19:20 ` Oded Gabbay
2022-02-16 19:24 ` David Hildenbrand
2020-09-21 13:42 ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-21 14:18 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-21 14:28 ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-21 14:38 ` Tejun Heo
2020-09-21 14:43 ` Christian Brauner
2020-09-21 14:55 ` Michal Hocko [this message]
2020-09-21 15:04 ` Christian Brauner
2020-09-21 16:06 ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-23 7:53 ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-21 14:41 ` Christian Brauner
2020-09-21 14:57 ` Michal Hocko
2020-09-21 16:31 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-17 18:14 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-17 18:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-17 19:03 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-17 19:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-17 19:55 ` John Hubbard
2020-09-17 20:06 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-17 20:19 ` John Hubbard
2020-09-17 20:25 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-17 20:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-17 21:40 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-17 22:09 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-17 22:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-17 22:48 ` Ira Weiny
2020-09-18 9:36 ` Jan Kara
2020-09-18 9:44 ` Jan Kara
2020-09-18 16:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-15 10:23 ` Leon Romanovsky
2020-09-15 15:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2020-09-15 15:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-09-15 16:18 ` Peter Xu
2020-08-21 23:49 ` [PATCH 2/4] mm/ksm: Remove reuse_ksm_page() Peter Xu
2020-08-21 23:49 ` [PATCH 3/4] mm/gup: Remove enfornced COW mechanism Peter Xu
2020-09-14 14:27 ` Oleg Nesterov
2020-09-14 17:59 ` Peter Xu
2020-09-14 19:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-21 23:49 ` [PATCH 4/4] mm: Add PGREUSE counter Peter Xu
2020-08-22 16:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-08-24 0:24 ` Peter Xu
2020-08-22 16:05 ` [PATCH 0/4] mm: Simplfy cow handling Linus Torvalds
2020-08-23 23:58 ` Peter Xu
2020-08-24 8:38 ` Kirill Tkhai
2020-08-27 14:15 ` Peter Xu
2021-02-02 14:40 [PATCH 1/4] mm: Trial do_wp_page() simplification Gal Pressman
2021-02-02 16:31 ` Peter Xu
2021-02-02 16:44 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-02 17:05 ` Peter Xu
2021-02-02 17:13 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-03 12:43 ` Gal Pressman
2021-02-03 14:00 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2021-02-03 14:47 ` Gal Pressman
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