Re: [RFC PATCH 5/5] Add a Signal Control Group Subsystem

From: Cedric Le Goater
Date: Wed Apr 23 2008 - 11:18:14 EST


Hello Matt !

> Add a signal control group subsystem that allows us to send signals to all tasks
> in the control group by writing the desired signal(7) number to the kill file.
>
> NOTE: We don't really need per-cgroup state, but control groups doesn't support
> stateless subsystems yet.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/cgroup_signal.h | 28 +++++++++
> include/linux/cgroup_subsys.h | 6 +
> init/Kconfig | 6 +
> kernel/Makefile | 1
> kernel/cgroup_signal.c | 129 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 5 files changed, 170 insertions(+)


I think there is a small race with new tasks entering the cgroup
while it's beeing killed, and a _fork ops would handle that. nop ?

Thanks,

C.
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