linux-kernel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>
To: Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@google.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	rdunlap@infradead.org, thomas.lendacky@amd.com,
	brijesh.singh@amd.com, jon.grimm@amd.com,
	eric.vantassell@amd.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, hannes@cmpxchg.org,
	frankja@linux.ibm.com, borntraeger@de.ibm.com, corbet@lwn.net,
	seanjc@google.com, vkuznets@redhat.com, wanpengli@tencent.com,
	jmattson@google.com, joro@8bytes.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mingo@redhat.com, bp@alien8.de, hpa@zytor.com,
	gingell@google.com, rientjes@google.com, dionnaglaze@google.com,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v3 0/2] cgroup: New misc cgroup controller
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 20:10:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YE+xEbwUoRj+snTY@blackbook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YEupplaAWU1i0G6B@google.com>

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1283 bytes --]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 09:49:26AM -0800, Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@google.com> wrote:
> I will add some more information in the cover letter of the next version.
Thanks.

> Each one coming up with their own interaction is a duplicate effort
> when they all need similar thing.
Could this be expressed as a new BPF hook (when allocating/freeing such
a resource unit)?

The decision could be made based on the configured limit or even some
other predicate.

(I saw this proposed already but I haven't seen some more reasoning
whether it's worse/better. IMO, BPF hooks are "cheaper" than full-blown
controllers, though it's still new user API.)


> As per my understanding this is the only for way for loadable modules
> (kvm-amd in this case) to access Kernel APIs. Let me know if there is a
> better way to do it.
I understood the symbols are exported for such modularized builds.
However, making them non-GPL exposes them to any out-of-tree modules,
although, the resource types are supposed to stay hardcoded in the misc
controller. So my point was to make them EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL to mark
they're just a means of implementing the modularized builds and not an
API. (But they'd remain API for out-of-tree GPL modules anyway, so take
this reasoning of mine with a grain of salt.)

Michal

[-- Attachment #2: Digital signature --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 833 bytes --]

  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-15 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-04 23:19 [Patch v3 0/2] cgroup: New misc cgroup controller Vipin Sharma
2021-03-04 23:19 ` [Patch v3 1/2] cgroup: sev: Add " Vipin Sharma
2021-03-11 18:59   ` Michal Koutný
2021-03-12 19:07     ` Vipin Sharma
2021-03-15 18:34       ` Michal Koutný
2021-03-12 19:48     ` Vipin Sharma
2021-03-12 20:51       ` Sean Christopherson
2021-03-12 21:18         ` Tom Lendacky
2021-03-19 21:28   ` Jacob Pan
2021-03-22 18:54     ` Vipin Sharma
2021-03-24 16:17       ` Jacob Pan
2021-03-24 22:09         ` Vipin Sharma
2021-03-04 23:19 ` [Patch v3 2/2] cgroup: sev: Miscellaneous cgroup documentation Vipin Sharma
2021-03-07 12:48 ` [Patch v3 0/2] cgroup: New misc cgroup controller Tejun Heo
2021-03-11 18:58   ` Michal Koutný
2021-03-11 19:39     ` Tejun Heo
2021-03-12 17:49     ` Vipin Sharma
2021-03-15 19:10       ` Michal Koutný [this message]
2021-03-22 18:24         ` Vipin Sharma

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=YE+xEbwUoRj+snTY@blackbook \
    --to=mkoutny@suse.com \
    --cc=borntraeger@de.ibm.com \
    --cc=bp@alien8.de \
    --cc=brijesh.singh@amd.com \
    --cc=cgroups@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=corbet@lwn.net \
    --cc=dionnaglaze@google.com \
    --cc=eric.vantassell@amd.com \
    --cc=frankja@linux.ibm.com \
    --cc=gingell@google.com \
    --cc=hannes@cmpxchg.org \
    --cc=hpa@zytor.com \
    --cc=jmattson@google.com \
    --cc=jon.grimm@amd.com \
    --cc=joro@8bytes.org \
    --cc=kvm@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-doc@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=mingo@redhat.com \
    --cc=pbonzini@redhat.com \
    --cc=rdunlap@infradead.org \
    --cc=rientjes@google.com \
    --cc=seanjc@google.com \
    --cc=tglx@linutronix.de \
    --cc=thomas.lendacky@amd.com \
    --cc=tj@kernel.org \
    --cc=vipinsh@google.com \
    --cc=vkuznets@redhat.com \
    --cc=wanpengli@tencent.com \
    --cc=x86@kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).