cgroup: implement eventfd-based generic API for notifications

This patchset introduces eventfd-based API for notifications in cgroups
and implements memory notifications on top of it.

It uses statistics in memory controler to track memory usage.

Output of time(1) on building kernel on tmpfs:

Root cgroup before changes:
	make -j2  506.37 user 60.93s system 193% cpu 4:52.77 total
Non-root cgroup before changes:
	make -j2  507.14 user 62.66s system 193% cpu 4:54.74 total
Root cgroup after changes (0 thresholds):
	make -j2  507.13 user 62.20s system 193% cpu 4:53.55 total
Non-root cgroup after changes (0 thresholds):
	make -j2  507.70 user 64.20s system 193% cpu 4:55.70 total
Root cgroup after changes (1 thresholds, never crossed):
	make -j2  506.97 user 62.20s system 193% cpu 4:53.90 total
Non-root cgroup after changes (1 thresholds, never crossed):
	make -j2  507.55 user 64.08s system 193% cpu 4:55.63 total

This patch:

Introduce the write-only file "cgroup.event_control" in every cgroup.

To register new notification handler you need:
- create an eventfd;
- open a control file to be monitored. Callbacks register_event() and
  unregister_event() must be defined for the control file;
- write "<event_fd> <control_fd> <args>" to cgroup.event_control.
  Interpretation of args is defined by control file implementation;

eventfd will be woken up by control file implementation or when the
cgroup is removed.

To unregister notification handler just close eventfd.

If you need notification functionality for a control file you have to
implement callbacks register_event() and unregister_event() in the
struct cftype.

[kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: Kconfig fix]
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>
Cc: Vladislav Buzov <vbuzov@embeddedalley.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: 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>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index 2a59d3101e5d..b4f2201321cd 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -235,6 +235,10 @@ struct cgroup {
 
 	/* For RCU-protected deletion */
 	struct rcu_head rcu_head;
+
+	/* List of events which userspace want to recieve */
+	struct list_head event_list;
+	spinlock_t event_list_lock;
 };
 
 /*
@@ -378,6 +382,26 @@ struct cftype {
 	int (*trigger)(struct cgroup *cgrp, unsigned int event);
 
 	int (*release)(struct inode *inode, struct file *file);
+
+	/*
+	 * register_event() callback will be used to add new userspace
+	 * waiter for changes related to the cftype. Implement it if
+	 * you want to provide this functionality. Use eventfd_signal()
+	 * on eventfd to send notification to userspace.
+	 */
+	int (*register_event)(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft,
+			struct eventfd_ctx *eventfd, const char *args);
+	/*
+	 * unregister_event() callback will be called when userspace
+	 * closes the eventfd or on cgroup removing.
+	 * This callback must be implemented, if you want provide
+	 * notification functionality.
+	 *
+	 * Be careful. It can be called after destroy(), so you have
+	 * to keep all nesessary data, until all events are removed.
+	 */
+	int (*unregister_event)(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft,
+			struct eventfd_ctx *eventfd);
 };
 
 struct cgroup_scanner {