Re: [PATCH] capabilities: add capability cgroup controller

[Andrew Morton]

On Thu, 23 Jun 2016 18:07:10 +0300 Topi Miettinen <toiwoton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> There are many basic ways to control processes, including capabilities,
> cgroups and resource limits. However, there are far fewer ways to find
> out useful values for the limits, except blind trial and error.
> 
> Currently, there is no way to know which capabilities are actually used.
> Even the source code is only implicit, in-depth knowledge of each
> capability must be used when analyzing a program to judge which
> capabilities the program will exercise.
> 
> Add a new cgroup controller for monitoring of capabilities
> in the cgroup.

I'm having trouble understanding how valuable this feature is to our
users, and that's a rather important thing!

Perhaps it would help if you were to explain your motivation:
particular use cases which benefited from this, for example.