Hello, On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 04:00:45PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote: > From my own debugging, the controller files (e.g. the debug controller) > were indirectly populated by the rebind_subsystems() call. > > [ 1.628103] css_populate_dir: init subsystem debug ... > [ 1.654975] cgroup_apply_control_enable+0x103/0x340 > [ 1.657719] cgroup_apply_control+0x1a/0x30 > [ 1.658521] rebind_subsystems+0x18a/0x3b0 ... But there's kernfs_activate() call at the end of rebind_subsystems(), so if the files were being added there, it should have been activated there and I can confirm that the files are correctly added / removed from the cgroup2 root directory when controllers are attached to / detached from it. > For the default cgroup2 root, kernfs_activate() was only called at the > beginning in cgroup_init() with only the base cgroup files added. No > more call after that until I touched the cgroup.subtree_control file. Hmm... we're activating at the end of * cgroup_setup_root() * rebind_subsystems() * cgroup_subtree_control_write() * cgroup_apply_cftypes() after successful addition * cgroup_mkdir() I *think* this should cover everything. Just in case, are you looking at the mainline kernel? Can you share how you can reproduce the issue? Thanks. -- 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