Hello, Currently, while csses (cgroup_subsys_states) have ->parent linkage too, only cgroups form full tree through their ->children and ->sibling fields and css iterations naturally is implemented by iterating cgroups and then dereferencing the css for the specified subsystem. There are now use cases where controllers need to iterate through csses regardless of their online state as long as they have positive reference. This can't easily be achieved by iterating cgroups because its css pointer array needs to be cleared on offline and there may be multiple dying csses for a cgroup for the same subsystem and there's only one pointer per cgroup-subsystem pair. This patchset moves ->children and ->sibling from cgroup to css and link all csses in proper trees and then make css iterators walk csses directly instead of going through cgroups. This achieves iteration of all non-released csses while also simplifying the iteration implementation. This is also in line with the general direction of using csses as the primary structural component. This patchset contains the following fourteen patches. 0001-cgroup-remove-css_parent.patch 0002-cgroup-remove-pointless-has-tasks-children-test-from.patch 0003-memcg-update-memcg_has_children-to-use-css_next_chil.patch 0004-device_cgroup-remove-direct-access-to-cgroup-childre.patch 0005-cgroup-remove-cgroup-parent.patch 0006-cgroup-move-cgroup-sibling-and-children-into-cgroup_.patch 0007-cgroup-link-all-cgroup_subsys_states-in-their-siblin.patch 0008-cgroup-move-cgroup-serial_nr-into-cgroup_subsys_stat.patch 0009-cgroup-introduce-CSS_RELEASED-and-reduce-css-iterati.patch 0010-cgroup-iterate-cgroup_subsys_states-directly.patch 0011-cgroup-use-CSS_ONLINE-instead-of-CGRP_DEAD.patch 0012-cgroup-convert-cgroup_has_live_children-into-css_has.patch 0013-device_cgroup-use-css_has_online_children-instead-of.patch 0014-cgroup-implement-css_tryget.patch 0001-0004 are prep patches. 0005-0008 move fields from cgroup to css and link csses in tree structure instead of cgroups. 0009-0010 implement direct css iteration. 0011-0013 convert a cgroup based interface to a css one, which is now possible as both are the same in terms of the tree structure, and fix devcg brekage using it. 0014 implements css_tryget() which is to be used to gain access to offline but not-yet-released csses. This pachset is on top of b9a63d0116e8 ("Merge branch 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu into for-3.16") + [1] [PATCHSET v2 cgroup/for-3.16] cgroup: post unified hierarchy fixes and updates + [2] (REFRESHED) [PATCHSET cgroup/for-3.16] cgroup: implement cftype->write() + [3] (REFRESHED) [PATCHSET cgroup/for-3.16] cgroup: remove cgroup_tree_mutex + [4] [PATCHSET cgroup/for-3.16] cgroup: use css->refcnt for cgroup reference counting and available in the following git branch. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup.git review-direct-css-iteration diffstat follows. Thanks. block/blk-cgroup.h | 2 include/linux/cgroup.h | 122 +++++++++++--------- kernel/cgroup.c | 257 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- kernel/cgroup_freezer.c | 2 kernel/cpuset.c | 2 kernel/sched/core.c | 2 kernel/sched/cpuacct.c | 2 mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c | 2 mm/memcontrol.c | 45 +++---- net/core/netclassid_cgroup.c | 2 net/core/netprio_cgroup.c | 2 security/device_cgroup.c | 17 -- 12 files changed, 251 insertions(+), 206 deletions(-) -- tejun [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1399663975-315-1-git-send-email-tj@xxxxxxxxxx [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20140509195059.GE4486@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [3] http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20140509195827.GG4486@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [4] http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1399670015-23463-1-git-send-email-tj@xxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html