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    Merge branch 'for-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup · 32dad03d
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
     "A lot of activities on the cgroup front.  Most changes aren't visible
      to userland at all at this point and are laying foundation for the
      planned unified hierarchy.
    
       - The biggest change is decoupling the lifetime management of css
         (cgroup_subsys_state) from that of cgroup's.  Because controllers
         (cpu, memory, block and so on) will need to be dynamically enabled
         and disabled, css which is the association point between a cgroup
         and a controller may come and go dynamically across the lifetime of
         a cgroup.  Till now, css's were created when the associated cgroup
         was created and stayed till the cgroup got destroyed.
    
         Assumptions around this tight coupling permeated through cgroup
         core and controllers.  These assumptions are gradually removed,
         which consists bulk of patches, and css destruction path is
         completely decoupled from cgroup destruction path.  Note that
         decoupling of creation path is relatively easy on top of these
         changes and the patchset is pending for the next window.
    
       - cgroup has its own event mechanism cgroup.event_control, which is
         only used by memcg.  It is overly complex trying to achieve high
         flexibility whose benefits seem dubious at best.  Going forward,
         new events will simply generate file modified event and the
         existing mechanism is being made specific to memcg.  This pull
         request contains prepatory patches for such change.
    
       - Various fixes and cleanups"
    
    Fixed up conflict in kernel/cgroup.c as per Tejun.
    
    * 'for-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (69 commits)
      cgroup: fix cgroup_css() invocation in css_from_id()
      cgroup: make cgroup_write_event_control() use css_from_dir() instead of __d_cgrp()
      cgroup: make cgroup_event hold onto cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup
      cgroup: implement CFTYPE_NO_PREFIX
      cgroup: make cgroup_css() take cgroup_subsys * instead and allow NULL subsys
      cgroup: rename cgroup_css_from_dir() to css_from_dir() and update its syntax
      cgroup: fix cgroup_write_event_control()
      cgroup: fix subsystem file accesses on the root cgroup
      cgroup: change cgroup_from_id() to css_from_id()
      cgroup: use css_get() in cgroup_create() to check CSS_ROOT
      cpuset: remove an unncessary forward declaration
      cgroup: RCU protect each cgroup_subsys_state release
      cgroup: move subsys file removal to kill_css()
      cgroup: factor out kill_css()
      cgroup: decouple cgroup_subsys_state destruction from cgroup destruction
      cgroup: replace cgroup->css_kill_cnt with ->nr_css
      cgroup: bounce cgroup_subsys_state ref kill confirmation to a work item
      cgroup: move cgroup->subsys[] assignment to online_css()
      cgroup: reorganize css init / exit paths
      cgroup: add __rcu modifier to cgroup->subsys[]
      ...
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