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Tejun Heo ef9fe980c6 cgroup_freezer: implement proper hierarchy support
Up until now, cgroup_freezer didn't implement hierarchy properly.
cgroups could be arranged in hierarchy but it didn't make any
difference in how each cgroup_freezer behaved.  They all operated
separately.

This patch implements proper hierarchy support.  If a cgroup is
frozen, all its descendants are frozen.  A cgroup is thawed iff it and
all its ancestors are THAWED.  freezer.self_freezing shows the current
freezing state for the cgroup itself.  freezer.parent_freezing shows
whether the cgroup is freezing because any of its ancestors is
freezing.

freezer_post_create() locks the parent and new cgroup and inherits the
parent's state and freezer_change_state() applies new state top-down
using cgroup_for_each_descendant_pre() which guarantees that no child
can escape its parent's state.  update_if_frozen() uses
cgroup_for_each_descendant_post() to propagate frozen states
bottom-up.

Synchronization could be coarser and easier by using a single mutex to
protect all hierarchy operations.  Finer grained approach was used
because it wasn't too difficult for cgroup_freezer and I think it's
beneficial to have an example implementation and cgroup_freezer is
rather simple and can serve a good one.

As this makes cgroup_freezer properly hierarchical,
freezer_subsys.broken_hierarchy marking is removed.

Note that this patch changes userland visible behavior - freezing a
cgroup now freezes all its descendants too.  This behavior change is
intended and has been warned via .broken_hierarchy.

v2: Michal spotted a bug in freezer_change_state() - descendants were
    inheriting from the wrong ancestor.  Fixed.

v3: Documentation/cgroups/freezer-subsystem.txt updated.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
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