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cgroups: add the trigger callback to struct cftype
authorPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:00:08 +0000 (01:00 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:06:09 +0000 (08:06 -0700)
Trigger callback can be used to receive a kick-up from the user space.  The
string written is ignored.

The cftype->private is used for multiplexing events.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.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

index 785a01cfb49d8d7519df62fb38629ac16fb38120..2d1d151258cfcf9b751e5c53bf36e853782cde9e 100644 (file)
@@ -243,6 +243,14 @@ struct cftype {
         */
        int (*write_s64) (struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft, s64 val);
 
+       /*
+        * trigger() callback can be used to get some kick from the
+        * userspace, when the actual string written is not important
+        * at all. The private field can be used to determine the
+        * kick type for multiplexing.
+        */
+       int (*trigger)(struct cgroup *cgrp, unsigned int event);
+
        int (*release) (struct inode *inode, struct file *file);
 };
 
index 436e26f4d62425bc7b9896046efe53bdab7abe26..7c8cc5141877af3ab384fe58c416667e4afd0d35 100644 (file)
@@ -1410,6 +1410,10 @@ static ssize_t cgroup_file_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
                return cft->write(cgrp, cft, file, buf, nbytes, ppos);
        if (cft->write_u64 || cft->write_s64)
                return cgroup_write_X64(cgrp, cft, file, buf, nbytes, ppos);
+       if (cft->trigger) {
+               int ret = cft->trigger(cgrp, (unsigned int)cft->private);
+               return ret ? ret : nbytes;
+       }
        return -EINVAL;
 }