cgroup: warn about broken hierarchies only after css_online
If everything goes right, it shouldn't really matter if we are spitting
this warning after css_alloc or css_online. If we fail between then,
there are some ill cases where we would previously see the message and
now we won't (like if the files fail to be created).
I believe it really shouldn't matter: this message is intended in spirit
to be shown when creation succeeds, but with insane settings.
Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 46dcdbd..b186a7e 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -4151,15 +4151,6 @@
if (err)
goto err_free_all;
}
-
- if (ss->broken_hierarchy && !ss->warned_broken_hierarchy &&
- parent->parent) {
- pr_warning("cgroup: %s (%d) created nested cgroup for controller \"%s\" which has incomplete hierarchy support. Nested cgroups may change behavior in the future.\n",
- current->comm, current->pid, ss->name);
- if (!strcmp(ss->name, "memory"))
- pr_warning("cgroup: \"memory\" requires setting use_hierarchy to 1 on the root.\n");
- ss->warned_broken_hierarchy = true;
- }
}
/*
@@ -4188,6 +4179,15 @@
err = online_css(ss, cgrp);
if (err)
goto err_destroy;
+
+ if (ss->broken_hierarchy && !ss->warned_broken_hierarchy &&
+ parent->parent) {
+ pr_warning("cgroup: %s (%d) created nested cgroup for controller \"%s\" which has incomplete hierarchy support. Nested cgroups may change behavior in the future.\n",
+ current->comm, current->pid, ss->name);
+ if (!strcmp(ss->name, "memory"))
+ pr_warning("cgroup: \"memory\" requires setting use_hierarchy to 1 on the root.\n");
+ ss->warned_broken_hierarchy = true;
+ }
}
err = cgroup_populate_dir(cgrp, true, root->subsys_mask);
