cgroup: add cgroup_favordynmods= command-line option
authorLuiz Capitulino <luizcap@amazon.com>
Wed, 27 Sep 2023 14:25:40 +0000 (14:25 +0000)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Wed, 4 Oct 2023 18:47:55 +0000 (08:47 -1000)
commit9b81d3a5be05d350ac93d99762c7ee91fe29b4cb
tree64610c0ddb9cc6ad96fcb51adb88e170c864cbcb
parent105f3fe9188b37752c25d154870ceca352c9213f
cgroup: add cgroup_favordynmods= command-line option

We have a need of using favordynmods with cgroup v1, which doesn't support
changing mount flags during remount. Enabling CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS at
build-time is not an option because we want to be able to selectively
enable it for certain systems.

This commit addresses this by introducing the cgroup_favordynmods=
command-line option. This option works for both cgroup v1 and v2 and also
allows for disabling favorynmods when the kernel built with
CONFIG_CGROUP_FAVOR_DYNMODS=y.

Also, note that when cgroup_favordynmods=true favordynmods is never
disabled in cgroup_destroy_root().

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c