Hi Tejun, Thanks for your reply. On Thu, 17 Jun 2021, Tejun Heo wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2021 at 10:09:41AM +0100, Lee Jones wrote: > > It should be possible for processes with CAP_SYS_NICE capabilities > > (privileges) to move lower priority tasks within the same namespace to > > different cgroups. > > I'm not sure that "should" is justified that easily given that cgroup can > affect things like device access permissions and basic system organization. The latter part of that sentence does provide some additional caveats. > > One extremely common example of this is Android's 'system_server', > > which moves processes around to different cgroups/cpusets, but should > > not require any other root privileges. > > Why is this being brought up now after all the years? This has been discussed before? I didn't find any evidence of that on the lists. > Isn't android moving onto cgroup2 anyway? That I would have to check. -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Senior Technical Lead - Developer Services Linaro.org │ Open source software for Arm SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog
