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From:   "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 21 Sep 2018 15:18:23 +0200
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Subject: Cgroup v2 bug: "domain invalid" node can't be converted to "threaded"
To:     Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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        "open list:CONTROL GROUP (CGROUP)" <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
        Amin Jamali <ajamali@pivotal.io>,
        Joao De Almeida Pereira <jpereira@pivotal.io>
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Hello Tejun,

While experimenting with cgroups, we've found what looks to be a bug.
I eventually simplified this to what I think are the minimum steps to
demonstrate the issue.

The following shell session demonstrates the issue:

[Kernel was booted with cgroup_no_v1=all]
# cd /sys/fs/cgroup/unified
# cat cgroup.subtree_control    # show that no controllers are enabled

# mkdir -p mycgrp/a/b/c
# echo threaded > mycgrp/a/b/cgroup.type

At this point, the hierarchy looks as follows:

    mycgrp [d]
        a [dt]
            b [t]
                c [inv]

Now let's make node "a" threaded (and thus "mycgrp" s made "domain threaded"):

# echo threaded > mycgrp/a/cgroup.type

By this point, we now have a hierarchy that looks as follows:

    mycgrp [dt]
        a [t]
            b [t]
                c [inv]

But, when we try to convert the node "c" from "domain invalid" to
"threaded", we get ENOTSUP on the write():

# echo threaded > mycgrp/a/b/c/cgroup.type
sh: echo: write error: Operation not supported

Your thoughts?

Thanks,

Michael

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