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cgroups: add the trigger callback to struct cftype

Trigger callback can be used to receive a kick-up from the user space. The
string written is ignored.

The cftype->private is used for multiplexing events.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Pavel Emelyanov and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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include/linux/cgroup.h
··· 243 243 */ 244 244 int (*write_s64) (struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cftype *cft, s64 val); 245 245 246 + /* 247 + * trigger() callback can be used to get some kick from the 248 + * userspace, when the actual string written is not important 249 + * at all. The private field can be used to determine the 250 + * kick type for multiplexing. 251 + */ 252 + int (*trigger)(struct cgroup *cgrp, unsigned int event); 253 + 246 254 int (*release) (struct inode *inode, struct file *file); 247 255 }; 248 256
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kernel/cgroup.c
··· 1410 1410 return cft->write(cgrp, cft, file, buf, nbytes, ppos); 1411 1411 if (cft->write_u64 || cft->write_s64) 1412 1412 return cgroup_write_X64(cgrp, cft, file, buf, nbytes, ppos); 1413 + if (cft->trigger) { 1414 + int ret = cft->trigger(cgrp, (unsigned int)cft->private); 1415 + return ret ? ret : nbytes; 1416 + } 1413 1417 return -EINVAL; 1414 1418 } 1415 1419