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<title>linux/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c, branch v5.7</title>
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup</title>
<updated>2020-04-03T18:30:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-03T18:30:20Z</published>
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Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - Christian extended clone3 so that processes can be spawned into
   cgroups directly.

   This is not only neat in terms of semantics but also avoids grabbing
   the global cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem for migration.

 - Daniel added !root xattr support to cgroupfs.

   Userland already uses xattrs on cgroupfs for bookkeeping. This will
   allow delegated cgroups to support such usages.

 - Prateek tried to make cpuset hotplug handling synchronous but that
   led to possible deadlock scenarios. Reverted.

 - Other minor changes including release_agent_path handling cleanup.

* 'for-5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  docs: cgroup-v1: Document the cpuset_v2_mode mount option
  Revert "cpuset: Make cpuset hotplug synchronous"
  cgroupfs: Support user xattrs
  kernfs: Add option to enable user xattrs
  kernfs: Add removed_size out param for simple_xattr_set
  kernfs: kvmalloc xattr value instead of kmalloc
  cgroup: Restructure release_agent_path handling
  selftests/cgroup: add tests for cloning into cgroups
  clone3: allow spawning processes into cgroups
  cgroup: add cgroup_may_write() helper
  cgroup: refactor fork helpers
  cgroup: add cgroup_get_from_file() helper
  cgroup: unify attach permission checking
  cpuset: Make cpuset hotplug synchronous
  cgroup.c: Use built-in RCU list checking
  kselftest/cgroup: add cgroup destruction test
  cgroup: Clean up css_set task traversal
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<entry>
<title>mm: memcontrol: recursive memory.low protection</title>
<updated>2020-04-02T16:35:28Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-04-02T04:07:07Z</published>
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Right now, the effective protection of any given cgroup is capped by its
own explicit memory.low setting, regardless of what the parent says.  The
reasons for this are mostly historical and ease of implementation: to make
delegation of memory.low safe, effective protection is the min() of all
memory.low up the tree.

Unfortunately, this limitation makes it impossible to protect an entire
subtree from another without forcing the user to make explicit protection
allocations all the way to the leaf cgroups - something that is highly
undesirable in real life scenarios.

Consider memory in a data center host.  At the cgroup top level, we have a
distinction between system management software and the actual workload the
system is executing.  Both branches are further subdivided into individual
services, job components etc.

We want to protect the workload as a whole from the system management
software, but that doesn't mean we want to protect and prioritize
individual workload wrt each other.  Their memory demand can vary over
time, and we'd want the VM to simply cache the hottest data within the
workload subtree.  Yet, the current memory.low limitations force us to
allocate a fixed amount of protection to each workload component in order
to get protection from system management software in general.  This
results in very inefficient resource distribution.

Another concern with mandating downward allocation is that, as the
complexity of the cgroup tree grows, it gets harder for the lower levels
to be informed about decisions made at the host-level.  Consider a
container inside a namespace that in turn creates its own nested tree of
cgroups to run multiple workloads.  It'd be extremely difficult to
configure memory.low parameters in those leaf cgroups that on one hand
balance pressure among siblings as the container desires, while also
reflecting the host-level protection from e.g.  rpm upgrades, that lie
beyond one or more delegation and namespacing points in the tree.

It's highly unusual from a cgroup interface POV that nested levels have to
be aware of and reflect decisions made at higher levels for them to be
effective.

To enable such use cases and scale configurability for complex trees, this
patch implements a resource inheritance model for memory that is similar
to how the CPU and the IO controller implement work-conserving resource
allocations: a share of a resource allocated to a subree always applies to
the entire subtree recursively, while allowing, but not mandating,
children to further specify distribution rules.

That means that if protection is explicitly allocated among siblings,
those configured shares are being followed during page reclaim just like
they are now.  However, if the memory.low set at a higher level is not
fully claimed by the children in that subtree, the "floating" remainder is
applied to each cgroup in the tree in proportion to its size.  Since
reclaim pressure is applied in proportion to size as well, each child in
that tree gets the same boost, and the effect is neutral among siblings -
with respect to each other, they behave as if no memory control was
enabled at all, and the VM simply balances the memory demands optimally
within the subtree.  But collectively those cgroups enjoy a boost over the
cgroups in neighboring trees.

E.g.  a leaf cgroup with a memory.low setting of 0 no longer means that
it's not getting a share of the hierarchically assigned resource, just
that it doesn't claim a fixed amount of it to protect from its siblings.

This allows us to recursively protect one subtree (workload) from another
(system management), while letting subgroups compete freely among each
other - without having to assign fixed shares to each leaf, and without
nested groups having to echo higher-level settings.

The floating protection composes naturally with fixed protection.
Consider the following example tree:

		A            A: low = 2G
               / \          A1: low = 1G
              A1 A2         A2: low = 0G

As outside pressure is applied to this tree, A1 will enjoy a fixed
protection from A2 of 1G, but the remaining, unclaimed 1G from A is split
evenly among A1 and A2, coming out to 1.5G and 0.5G.

There is a slight risk of regressing theoretical setups where the
top-level cgroups don't know about the true budgeting and set bogusly high
"bypass" values that are meaningfully allocated down the tree.  Such
setups would rely on unclaimed protection to be discarded, and
distributing it would change the intended behavior.  Be safe and hide the
new behavior behind a mount option, 'memory_recursiveprot'.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Down &lt;chris@chrisdown.name&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Koutný &lt;mkoutny@suse.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200227195606.46212-4-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>bpf: Implement bpf_prog replacement for an active bpf_cgroup_link</title>
<updated>2020-03-31T00:36:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andriin@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-30T02:59:59Z</published>
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Add new operation (LINK_UPDATE), which allows to replace active bpf_prog from
under given bpf_link. Currently this is only supported for bpf_cgroup_link,
but will be extended to other kinds of bpf_links in follow-up patches.

For bpf_cgroup_link, implemented functionality matches existing semantics for
direct bpf_prog attachment (including BPF_F_REPLACE flag). User can either
unconditionally set new bpf_prog regardless of which bpf_prog is currently
active under given bpf_link, or, optionally, can specify expected active
bpf_prog. If active bpf_prog doesn't match expected one, no changes are
performed, old bpf_link stays intact and attached, operation returns
a failure.

cgroup_bpf_replace() operation is resolving race between auto-detachment and
bpf_prog update in the same fashion as it's done for bpf_link detachment,
except in this case update has no way of succeeding because of target cgroup
marked as dying. So in this case error is returned.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200330030001.2312810-3-andriin@fb.com
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<entry>
<title>bpf: Implement bpf_link-based cgroup BPF program attachment</title>
<updated>2020-03-31T00:35:59Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Andrii Nakryiko</name>
<email>andriin@fb.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-30T02:59:58Z</published>
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Implement new sub-command to attach cgroup BPF programs and return FD-based
bpf_link back on success. bpf_link, once attached to cgroup, cannot be
replaced, except by owner having its FD. Cgroup bpf_link supports only
BPF_F_ALLOW_MULTI semantics. Both link-based and prog-based BPF_F_ALLOW_MULTI
attachments can be freely intermixed.

To prevent bpf_cgroup_link from keeping cgroup alive past the point when no
BPF program can be executed, implement auto-detachment of link. When
cgroup_bpf_release() is called, all attached bpf_links are forced to release
cgroup refcounts, but they leave bpf_link otherwise active and allocated, as
well as still owning underlying bpf_prog. This is because user-space might
still have FDs open and active, so bpf_link as a user-referenced object can't
be freed yet. Once last active FD is closed, bpf_link will be freed and
underlying bpf_prog refcount will be dropped. But cgroup refcount won't be
touched, because cgroup is released already.

The inherent race between bpf_cgroup_link release (from closing last FD) and
cgroup_bpf_release() is resolved by both operations taking cgroup_mutex. So
the only additional check required is when bpf_cgroup_link attempts to detach
itself from cgroup. At that time we need to check whether there is still
cgroup associated with that link. And if not, exit with success, because
bpf_cgroup_link was already successfully detached.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;ast@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200330030001.2312810-2-andriin@fb.com
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cgroupfs: Support user xattrs</title>
<updated>2020-03-16T19:53:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Xu</name>
<email>dxu@dxuuu.xyz</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-12T20:03:17Z</published>
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This patch turns on xattr support for cgroupfs. This is useful for
letting non-root owners of delegated subtrees attach metadata to
cgroups.

One use case is for subtree owners to tell a userspace out of memory
killer to bias away from killing specific subtrees.

Tests:

    [/sys/fs/cgroup]# for i in $(seq 0 130); \
        do setfattr workload.slice -n user.name$i -v wow; done
    setfattr: workload.slice: No space left on device
    setfattr: workload.slice: No space left on device
    setfattr: workload.slice: No space left on device

    [/sys/fs/cgroup]# for i in $(seq 0 130); \
        do setfattr workload.slice --remove user.name$i; done
    setfattr: workload.slice: No such attribute
    setfattr: workload.slice: No such attribute
    setfattr: workload.slice: No such attribute

    [/sys/fs/cgroup]# for i in $(seq 0 130); \
        do setfattr workload.slice -n user.name$i -v wow; done
    setfattr: workload.slice: No space left on device
    setfattr: workload.slice: No space left on device
    setfattr: workload.slice: No space left on device

`seq 0 130` is inclusive, and 131 - 128 = 3, which is the number of
errors we expect to see.

    [/data]# cat testxattr.c
    #include &lt;sys/types.h&gt;
    #include &lt;sys/xattr.h&gt;
    #include &lt;stdio.h&gt;
    #include &lt;stdlib.h&gt;

    int main() {
      char name[256];
      char *buf = malloc(64 &lt;&lt; 10);
      if (!buf) {
        perror("malloc");
        return 1;
      }

      for (int i = 0; i &lt; 4; ++i) {
        snprintf(name, 256, "user.bigone%d", i);
        if (setxattr("/sys/fs/cgroup/system.slice", name, buf,
                     64 &lt;&lt; 10, 0)) {
          printf("setxattr failed on iteration=%d\n", i);
          return 1;
        }
      }

      return 0;
    }

    [/data]# ./a.out
    setxattr failed on iteration=2

    [/data]# ./a.out
    setxattr failed on iteration=0

    [/sys/fs/cgroup]# setfattr -x user.bigone0 system.slice/
    [/sys/fs/cgroup]# setfattr -x user.bigone1 system.slice/

    [/data]# ./a.out
    setxattr failed on iteration=2

Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu &lt;dxu@dxuuu.xyz&gt;
Acked-by: Chris Down &lt;chris@chrisdown.name&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net</title>
<updated>2020-03-12T23:19:19Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-12T23:19:19Z</published>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
 "It looks like a decent sized set of fixes, but a lot of these are one
  liner off-by-one and similar type changes:

   1) Fix netlink header pointer to calcular bad attribute offset
      reported to user. From Pablo Neira Ayuso.

   2) Don't double clear PHY interrupts when -&gt;did_interrupt is set,
      from Heiner Kallweit.

   3) Add missing validation of various (devlink, nl802154, fib, etc.)
      attributes, from Jakub Kicinski.

   4) Missing *pos increments in various netfilter seq_next ops, from
      Vasily Averin.

   5) Missing break in of_mdiobus_register() loop, from Dajun Jin.

   6) Don't double bump tx_dropped in veth driver, from Jiang Lidong.

   7) Work around FMAN erratum A050385, from Madalin Bucur.

   8) Make sure ARP header is pulled early enough in bonding driver,
      from Eric Dumazet.

   9) Do a cond_resched() during multicast processing of ipvlan and
      macvlan, from Mahesh Bandewar.

  10) Don't attach cgroups to unrelated sockets when in interrupt
      context, from Shakeel Butt.

  11) Fix tpacket ring state management when encountering unknown GSO
      types. From Willem de Bruijn.

  12) Fix MDIO bus PHY resume by checking mdio_bus_phy_may_suspend()
      only in the suspend context. From Heiner Kallweit"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (112 commits)
  net: systemport: fix index check to avoid an array out of bounds access
  tc-testing: add ETS scheduler to tdc build configuration
  net: phy: fix MDIO bus PM PHY resuming
  net: hns3: clear port base VLAN when unload PF
  net: hns3: fix RMW issue for VLAN filter switch
  net: hns3: fix VF VLAN table entries inconsistent issue
  net: hns3: fix "tc qdisc del" failed issue
  taprio: Fix sending packets without dequeueing them
  net: mvmdio: avoid error message for optional IRQ
  net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Add missing mask of ATU occupancy register
  net: memcg: fix lockdep splat in inet_csk_accept()
  s390/qeth: implement smarter resizing of the RX buffer pool
  s390/qeth: refactor buffer pool code
  s390/qeth: use page pointers to manage RX buffer pool
  seg6: fix SRv6 L2 tunnels to use IANA-assigned protocol number
  net: dsa: Don't instantiate phylink for CPU/DSA ports unless needed
  net/packet: tpacket_rcv: do not increment ring index on drop
  sxgbe: Fix off by one in samsung driver strncpy size arg
  net: caif: Add lockdep expression to RCU traversal primitive
  MAINTAINERS: remove Sathya Perla as Emulex NIC maintainer
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-5.6-fixes' into for-5.7</title>
<updated>2020-03-12T20:44:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-12T20:44:18Z</published>
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<entry>
<title>cgroup: memcg: net: do not associate sock with unrelated cgroup</title>
<updated>2020-03-10T22:33:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Shakeel Butt</name>
<email>shakeelb@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-10T05:16:05Z</published>
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We are testing network memory accounting in our setup and noticed
inconsistent network memory usage and often unrelated cgroups network
usage correlates with testing workload. On further inspection, it
seems like mem_cgroup_sk_alloc() and cgroup_sk_alloc() are broken in
irq context specially for cgroup v1.

mem_cgroup_sk_alloc() and cgroup_sk_alloc() can be called in irq context
and kind of assumes that this can only happen from sk_clone_lock()
and the source sock object has already associated cgroup. However in
cgroup v1, where network memory accounting is opt-in, the source sock
can be unassociated with any cgroup and the new cloned sock can get
associated with unrelated interrupted cgroup.

Cgroup v2 can also suffer if the source sock object was created by
process in the root cgroup or if sk_alloc() is called in irq context.
The fix is to just do nothing in interrupt.

WARNING: Please note that about half of the TCP sockets are allocated
from the IRQ context, so, memory used by such sockets will not be
accouted by the memcg.

The stack trace of mem_cgroup_sk_alloc() from IRQ-context:

CPU: 70 PID: 12720 Comm: ssh Tainted:  5.6.0-smp-DEV #1
Hardware name: ...
Call Trace:
 &lt;IRQ&gt;
 dump_stack+0x57/0x75
 mem_cgroup_sk_alloc+0xe9/0xf0
 sk_clone_lock+0x2a7/0x420
 inet_csk_clone_lock+0x1b/0x110
 tcp_create_openreq_child+0x23/0x3b0
 tcp_v6_syn_recv_sock+0x88/0x730
 tcp_check_req+0x429/0x560
 tcp_v6_rcv+0x72d/0xa40
 ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0xc9/0x400
 ip6_input+0x44/0xd0
 ? ip6_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x400/0x400
 ip6_rcv_finish+0x71/0x80
 ipv6_rcv+0x5b/0xe0
 ? ip6_sublist_rcv+0x2e0/0x2e0
 process_backlog+0x108/0x1e0
 net_rx_action+0x26b/0x460
 __do_softirq+0x104/0x2a6
 do_softirq_own_stack+0x2a/0x40
 &lt;/IRQ&gt;
 do_softirq.part.19+0x40/0x50
 __local_bh_enable_ip+0x51/0x60
 ip6_finish_output2+0x23d/0x520
 ? ip6table_mangle_hook+0x55/0x160
 __ip6_finish_output+0xa1/0x100
 ip6_finish_output+0x30/0xd0
 ip6_output+0x73/0x120
 ? __ip6_finish_output+0x100/0x100
 ip6_xmit+0x2e3/0x600
 ? ipv6_anycast_cleanup+0x50/0x50
 ? inet6_csk_route_socket+0x136/0x1e0
 ? skb_free_head+0x1e/0x30
 inet6_csk_xmit+0x95/0xf0
 __tcp_transmit_skb+0x5b4/0xb20
 __tcp_send_ack.part.60+0xa3/0x110
 tcp_send_ack+0x1d/0x20
 tcp_rcv_state_process+0xe64/0xe80
 ? tcp_v6_connect+0x5d1/0x5f0
 tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x1b1/0x3f0
 ? tcp_v6_do_rcv+0x1b1/0x3f0
 __release_sock+0x7f/0xd0
 release_sock+0x30/0xa0
 __inet_stream_connect+0x1c3/0x3b0
 ? prepare_to_wait+0xb0/0xb0
 inet_stream_connect+0x3b/0x60
 __sys_connect+0x101/0x120
 ? __sys_getsockopt+0x11b/0x140
 __x64_sys_connect+0x1a/0x20
 do_syscall_64+0x51/0x200
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

The stack trace of mem_cgroup_sk_alloc() from IRQ-context:
Fixes: 2d7580738345 ("mm: memcontrol: consolidate cgroup socket tracking")
Fixes: d979a39d7242 ("cgroup: duplicate cgroup reference when cloning sockets")
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cgroup: fix psi_show() crash on 32bit ino archs</title>
<updated>2020-03-04T16:15:58Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Qian Cai</name>
<email>cai@lca.pw</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-24T03:00:07Z</published>
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Similar to the commit d7495343228f ("cgroup: fix incorrect
WARN_ON_ONCE() in cgroup_setup_root()"), cgroup_id(root_cgrp) does not
equal to 1 on 32bit ino archs which triggers all sorts of issues with
psi_show() on s390x. For example,

 BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in collect_percpu_times+0x2d0/
 Read of size 4 at addr 000000001e0ce000 by task read_all/3667
 collect_percpu_times+0x2d0/0x798
 psi_show+0x7c/0x2a8
 seq_read+0x2ac/0x830
 vfs_read+0x92/0x150
 ksys_read+0xe2/0x188
 system_call+0xd8/0x2b4

Fix it by using cgroup_ino().

Fixes: 743210386c03 ("cgroup: use cgrp-&gt;kn-&gt;id as the cgroup ID")
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai &lt;cai@lca.pw&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.5
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<title>clone3: allow spawning processes into cgroups</title>
<updated>2020-02-12T22:57:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>christian.brauner@ubuntu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-02-05T13:26:22Z</published>
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This adds support for creating a process in a different cgroup than its
parent. Callers can limit and account processes and threads right from
the moment they are spawned:
- A service manager can directly spawn new services into dedicated
  cgroups.
- A process can be directly created in a frozen cgroup and will be
  frozen as well.
- The initial accounting jitter experienced by process supervisors and
  daemons is eliminated with this.
- Threaded applications or even thread implementations can choose to
  create a specific cgroup layout where each thread is spawned
  directly into a dedicated cgroup.

This feature is limited to the unified hierarchy. Callers need to pass
a directory file descriptor for the target cgroup. The caller can
choose to pass an O_PATH file descriptor. All usual migration
restrictions apply, i.e. there can be no processes in inner nodes. In
general, creating a process directly in a target cgroup adheres to all
migration restrictions.

One of the biggest advantages of this feature is that CLONE_INTO_GROUP does
not need to grab the write side of the cgroup cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem.
This global lock makes moving tasks/threads around super expensive. With
clone3() this lock is avoided.

Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Li Zefan &lt;lizefan@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
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