From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934946Ab1IOVKn (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:10:43 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([74.125.121.67]:56902 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934775Ab1IOVKm (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:10:42 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references: x-mailer:mime-version:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:x-system-of-record; b=A3d3PknF0v+9u4R3MQTzP+cuy2NzFc1oZntoiNrNHo/gRdhzJeSwCxvrjtBFSf8tl sDsOaL/I5YoDuxFwqmaww== Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2011 14:09:41 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: LKML , Paul Menage , Li Zefan , Johannes Weiner , Aditya Kali , Oleg Nesterov , Kay Sievers , Tim Hockin , Tejun Heo Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 11/12] cgroups: Allow subsystems to cancel a fork Message-Id: <20110915140941.6b278dfb.akpm@google.com> In-Reply-To: <1315267986-28937-12-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> References: <1315267986-28937-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> <1315267986-28937-12-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-System-Of-Record: true Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 02:13:05 +0200 Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > Let the subsystem's fork callback return an error value so > that they can cancel a fork. This is going to be used by > the task counter subsystem to implement the limit. This breaks the build quite gruesomely with CONFIG_CGROUPS=n. I looked at doing a quick fix but that would just have piled ugly on ugly.