Hello, Currently, subsystem enabling and disabling in the default hierarchy are implemented as a long chain of interdependent operations in cgroup_subtree_control_write(). The function calculates what need to be done to its children and excute the necessary operations. The function unfortunately ends up being a rather opaque blob of operations which is difficult to wrap one's head around or reuse. This patchset restructures control mask update so that it's composed of discrete idempotent and recursive operations. While no new features are added by this patchset, future changes will make use of flexible control mask updates to implement features involving more complex controller management. This patchset includes the following 12 patches. 0001-cgroup-separate-out-interface-file-creation-from-css.patch 0002-cgroup-explicitly-track-whether-a-cgroup_subsys_stat.patch 0003-cgroup-reorder-operations-in-cgroup_mkdir.patch 0004-cgroup-factor-out-cgroup_create-out-of-cgroup_mkdir.patch 0005-cgroup-introduce-cgroup_control-and-cgroup_ss_mask.patch 0006-cgroup-factor-out-cgroup_drain_offline-from-cgroup_s.patch 0007-cgroup-factor-out-cgroup_apply_control_disable-from-.patch 0008-cgroup-factor-out-cgroup_apply_control_enable-from-c.patch 0009-cgroup-make-cgroup_drain_offline-and-cgroup_apply_co.patch 0010-cgroup-introduce-cgroup_-save-propagate-restore-_con.patch 0011-cgroup-Factor-out-cgroup_-apply-finalize-_control-fr.patch 0012-cgroup-make-cgroup_calc_subtree_ss_mask-take-this_ss.patch The patchset is on top of cgroup/for-4.6 6e5c830770f ("cgroup: make cgroup subsystem masks u16") and available in the following git branch. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup.git review-recursive-control diffstat follows. Thanks. include/linux/cgroup-defs.h | 3 kernel/cgroup.c | 653 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 2 files changed, 419 insertions(+), 237 deletions(-) -- tejun -- 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