cgroup files: add write_string cgroup control file method
authorPaul Menage <menage@google.com>
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 08:46:58 +0000 (01:46 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:53:35 +0000 (10:53 -0700)
commitdb3b14978abc02041046ed8353f0899cb58ffffc
tree355ba027c6354bd13bcbb5318e8478b3de4599e9
parentce16b49d37e748574f7fabc2726268d542d0aa1a
cgroup files: add write_string cgroup control file method

This patch adds a write_string() method for cgroups control files. The
semantics are that a buffer is copied from userspace to kernelspace
and the handler function invoked on that buffer.  The buffer is
guaranteed to be nul-terminated, and no longer than max_write_len
(defaulting to 64 bytes if unspecified). Later patches will convert
existing raw file write handlers in control group subsystems to use
this method.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: 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>
include/linux/cgroup.h
kernel/cgroup.c