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Re: CGroup Namespaces (v4)

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Serge,

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 8:51 PM,  <serge@hallyn.com> wrote:
> To summarize the semantics:
>
> 1. CLONE_NEWCGROUP re-uses 0x02000000, which was previously CLONE_STOPPED
>
> 2. unsharing a cgroup namespace makes all your current cgroups your new
> cgroup root.
>
> 3. /proc/pid/cgroup always shows cgroup paths relative to the reader's
> cgroup namespce root.  A task outside of  your cgroup looks like
>
>         8:memory:/../../..
>
> 4. when a task mounts a cgroupfs, the cgroup which shows up as root depends
> on the mounting task's  cgroup namespace.
>
> 5. setns to a cgroup namespace switches your cgroup namespace but not
> your cgroups.
>
> With this, using github.com/hallyn/lxc #2015-11-09/cgns (and
> github.com/hallyn/lxcfs #2015-11-10/cgns) we can start a container in a full
> proper cgroup namespace, avoiding either cgmanager or lxcfs cgroup bind mounts.
>
> This is completely backward compatible and will be completely invisible
> to any existing cgroup users (except for those running inside a cgroup
> namespace and looking at /proc/pid/cgroup of tasks outside their
> namespace.)
>    cgroupns-root.

IIRC one downside of this series was that only the new "sane" cgroup
layout was supported
and hence it was useless for everything which expected the default layout.
Hence, still no systemd for us. :)

Is this now different?

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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CGroup Namespaces (v4) serge@hallyn.com - 2015-11-16 21:00 +0100
  [PATCH 4/8] cgroup: export cgroup_get() and cgroup_put() serge@hallyn.com - 2015-11-16 21:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4/8] cgroup: export cgroup_get() and cgroup_put() Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-11-24 17:40 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 4/8] cgroup: export cgroup_get() and cgroup_put() "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> - 2015-11-24 23:40 +0100
  [PATCH 6/8] cgroup: cgroup namespace setns support serge@hallyn.com - 2015-11-16 21:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 6/8] cgroup: cgroup namespace setns support Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-11-24 18:00 +0100
  [PATCH 1/8] kernfs: Add API to generate relative kernfs path serge@hallyn.com - 2015-11-16 21:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/8] kernfs: Add API to generate relative kernfs path Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-11-24 17:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/8] kernfs: Add API to generate relative kernfs path "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> - 2015-11-24 18:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 1/8] kernfs: Add API to generate relative kernfs path Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-11-24 17:20 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 1/8] kernfs: Add API to generate relative kernfs path "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> - 2015-11-27 06:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 1/8] kernfs: Add API to generate relative kernfs path Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-11-30 16:20 +0100
  Re: CGroup Namespaces (v4) "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2015-11-16 21:50 +0100
    Re: CGroup Namespaces (v4) Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> - 2015-11-16 22:00 +0100
      Re: CGroup Namespaces (v4) "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2015-11-16 22:00 +0100
        Re: CGroup Namespaces (v4) ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2015-11-16 23:40 +0100
          Re: CGroup Namespaces (v4) Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-11-16 23:40 +0100
          Re: CGroup Namespaces (v4) "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2015-11-17 02:20 +0100
            Re: CGroup Namespaces (v4) "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2015-11-17 02:50 +0100
              Re: CGroup Namespaces (v4) "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2015-11-17 05:00 +0100
          Re: CGroup Namespaces (v4) "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> - 2015-11-18 03:40 +0100
            Re: CGroup Namespaces (v4) ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) - 2015-11-18 10:30 +0100
              Re: CGroup Namespaces (v4) "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@ubuntu.com> - 2015-11-18 16:50 +0100
  Re: CGroup Namespaces (v4) Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 21:50 +0100

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