[RFC 0/2] cgroup: New misc cgroup controller

From: Vipin Sharma
Date: Thu Feb 18 2021 - 15:05:27 EST


Hello,

This patch is creating a new misc cgroup controller for allocation and
tracking of resources which are not abstract like other cgroup
controllers.

This controller was initially proposed as encryption_id but after
the feedbacks, it is now changed to misc cgroup.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210108012846.4134815-2-vipinsh@xxxxxxxxxx/

Changes from the encryption_id controller are:
1. There are only 3 files misc.{capacity, max, current} for all
resources compared to each resource having their own 3 files in
encryption_id cgroup.
2. If a resource capacity is 0 then it is considered inactive and won't
show up in control files.
2. This is a lockless implementation similar to page counter APIs
compared to single lock implementation in encryption_id cgroup.

Please provide any feedback for this RFC or if it is good for
merging then I can send a patch for merging.

Thanks

Vipin Sharma (2):
cgroup: sev: Add misc cgroup controller
cgroup: sev: Miscellaneous cgroup documentation.

Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/misc.rst | 1 +
Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 64 ++-
arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c | 60 ++-
arch/x86/kvm/svm/svm.h | 1 +
include/linux/cgroup_subsys.h | 4 +
include/linux/misc_cgroup.h | 75 +++
init/Kconfig | 14 +
kernel/cgroup/Makefile | 1 +
kernel/cgroup/misc.c | 456 +++++++++++++++++++
9 files changed, 664 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/misc.rst
create mode 100644 include/linux/misc_cgroup.h
create mode 100644 kernel/cgroup/misc.c

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