[PATCH 0/3] cgroup/misc: Add hwcap masks to the misc controller
Andrei Vagin <[email protected]> Fri, 5 Dec 2025 00:58:28 +0000
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This patch series introduces a mechanism to mask hardware capabilities (AT_HWCAP) reported to user-space processes via the misc cgroup controller. To support C/R operations (snapshots, live migration) in heterogeneous clusters, we must ensure that processes utilize CPU features available on all potential target nodes. To solve this, we need to advertise a common feature set across the cluster. This patchset allows users to configure a mask for AT_HWCAP, AT_HWCAP2. This ensures that applications within a container only detect and use features guaranteed to be available on all potential target hosts. The first patch adds the mask interface to the misc cgroup controller, allowing users to set masks for AT_HWCAP, AT_HWCAP2... The second patch adds a selftest to verify the functionality of the new interface, ensuring masks are applied and inherited correctly. The third patch updates the documentation. Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: Tejun Heo <[email protected]> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]> Cc: "Michal Koutný" <[email protected]> Cc: Vipin Sharma <[email protected]> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]> Andrei Vagin (3): cgroup, binfmt_elf: Add hwcap masks to the misc controller selftests/cgroup: Add a test for the misc.mask cgroup interface Documentation: cgroup-v2: Document misc.mask interface Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 25 ++++ Documentation/arch/arm64/elf_hwcaps.rst | 21 ++++ fs/binfmt_elf.c | 24 +++- include/linux/misc_cgroup.h | 25 ++++ kernel/cgroup/misc.c | 126 +++++++++++++++++++++ tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/.gitignore | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/Makefile | 2 + tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/config | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_misc.c | 114 +++++++++++++++++++ 9 files changed, 335 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_misc.c