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cgroups: convert tasks file to use a seq_file with shared pid array
authorPaul Menage <menage@google.com>
Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:28:04 +0000 (20:28 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:52:38 +0000 (08:52 -0700)
commit95bc85a10b84ff5f8860534b11bf9cc60d97a4c8
tree5d37791218c420281e509899645d89aee7902f2b
parent89ee790b55035e4189d8d6d3f31dbb68343a8d23
cgroups: convert tasks file to use a seq_file with shared pid array

Rather than pre-generating the entire text for the "tasks" file each
time the file is opened, we instead just generate/update the array of
process ids and use a seq_file to report these to userspace.  All open
file handles on the same "tasks" file can share a pid array, which may
be updated any time that no thread is actively reading the array.  By
sharing the array, the potential for userspace to DoS the system by
opening many handles on the same "tasks" file is removed.

[Based on a patch by Lai Jiangshan, extended to use seq_file]

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/cgroup.h
kernel/cgroup.c