cgroup: implement hierarchy limits

Creating cgroup hierearchies of unreasonable size can affect
overall system performance. A user might want to limit the
size of cgroup hierarchy. This is especially important if a user
is delegating some cgroup sub-tree.

To address this issue, introduce an ability to control
the size of cgroup hierarchy.

The cgroup.max.descendants control file allows to set the maximum
allowed number of descendant cgroups.
The cgroup.max.depth file controls the maximum depth of the cgroup
tree. Both are single value r/w files, with "max" default value.

The control files exist on each hierarchy level (including root).
When a new cgroup is created, we check the total descendants
and depth limits on each level, and if none of them are exceeded,
a new cgroup is created.

Only alive cgroups are counted, removed (dying) cgroups are
ignored.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
index 58b4c425a155..59e4ad9e7bac 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
@@ -273,13 +273,18 @@ struct cgroup {
 	 */
 	int level;
 
+	/* Maximum allowed descent tree depth */
+	int max_depth;
+
 	/*
 	 * Keep track of total numbers of visible and dying descent cgroups.
 	 * Dying cgroups are cgroups which were deleted by a user,
 	 * but are still existing because someone else is holding a reference.
+	 * max_descendants is a maximum allowed number of descent cgroups.
 	 */
 	int nr_descendants;
 	int nr_dying_descendants;
+	int max_descendants;
 
 	/*
 	 * Each non-empty css_set associated with this cgroup contributes