[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] Resource controllers based on process containers

[Paul Menage]

On 3/6/07, Pavel Emelianov <xemul at sw.ru> wrote:
> 2. Extended containers may register themselves too late.
>    Kernel threads/helpers start forking, opening files
>    and touching pages much earlier. This patchset
>    workarounds this in not-so-cute manner and I'm waiting
>    for Paul's comments on this issue.
>

Can we not make sure that each subsystem registers itself before any
of its resources become usable? So the file counting subsystem should
register at some point before filp_open() becomes usable, and the
process counting subsystem should register before it's possible to
fork, etc.

Paul