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fix(classifier): enable the memory controller on the slice at install - #3262
The second half of gominimal/inbox#1227, found while reviewing #3227: once the cover is a real cgroup2 mount, the box still reads no memory.max, and main's own e2e asks for it on that branch.
Why. A controller reaches a cgroup only when every cgroup above it has enabled it in cgroup.subtree_control. The sandbox enables the memory controller on the cohort and its subtrees when the daemon enters its leaf, but it cannot enable it on the slice: the daemon is still a member of the slice's tree at that point, and a cgroup that holds a process cannot enable a controller for its children. Nothing else did either, so the cohort's +memory failed with ENOENT on every host, the cascade swallowed it (by design), and a box under the cover found no memory.max.
Change.scripts/install-host-classifier.sh, after the delegation loop: when the mount root's cgroup.subtree_control offers memory, the step writes +memory into the slice's cgroup.subtree_control and says so. A root that offers no memory controller is noted, not a failure (boxes still get their leaves and verdicts, and read no memory.max), and so is a slice that holds a process of its own. The rehearsal in scripts/install_test.sh pins both: a stand-in root without the controller is noted and the slice is left as it was; one that offers it gets +memory on the slice.
Evidence. The installer's rehearsal (253 checks, the four new ones included) passes. Lab runs against a release build of main on Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora: the control scenarios (host-address enforcement, baseline) pass on both sides with this change alone; with #3227's cover retry on top, the cover scenario goes fail -> pass on both distros and the box reads a populated cgroup2 root with the memory controller listed and a memory.max value, where the release shows the empty tmpfs fallback.
With this in, #3227 can rebase and its native e2e's cgroup2 branch has the file it asks for.
Guest setup enables the memory controller on the mount parent, newly created cgroup tree root, and boxes cohort. Existing tree roots are left unchanged.
The host installer attempts to enable the memory controller on the slice and boxes subtrees when available. If enabling fails or the controller is unavailable, installation continues and reports the outcome, including when boxes may lack a memory.max limit.
The sandbox covers a host-address box's /sys/fs/cgroup with a read-only
cgroup2 mount of its own leaf so the box reads its memory.max, and the
daemon enables the memory controller on the cohort and its subtrees when
it enters its leaf. It never could on the slice: a cgroup that holds a
process cannot enable a controller for its children, and the daemon is
still in the slice's tree at that point. So the cohort's "+memory" failed
with ENOENT on every host, the cascade swallowed it as designed, and a
box under the cover found no memory.max (gominimal/inbox#1227; main's
e2e asks for the file once the cover is real).
The privileged step now enables the memory controller on the slice once
its leaves exist, when the mount root's cgroup.subtree_control offers
it. A root that does not is noted, not a failure, as is a slice that
holds a process of its own. The rehearsal pins both: a stand-in root
without the controller is noted and the slice stays as it was; one that
offers it gets "+memory" on the slice.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The installer attempts to enable the memory controller on the slice and box subtrees when the parent offers it. The daemon selects its controller cascade based on whether it created the cgroup tree root. Tests cover installer outcomes and daemon setup.
When the parent offers the memory controller, the installer attempts to enable it on the slice, boxes, boxes/deny, and boxes/allow. It reports missing controller support or write failures. Tests cover these cases, including a slice with a standing process.
make_cgroup now reports whether it created the tree root. The daemon includes the parent and root in the memory-controller cascade only when it created the root. Tests check the native and guest setup cases.
If enabling memory on the deny subtree fails during install, the allow subtree is not attempted, so boxes in it may lack memory limits. This is a narrow edge case that does not block installation. Fixing it before or shortly after merge is advisable.
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A rabbit checks the cgroup tree, And sees where memory controllers may be. The slice and boxes gain their place, While tests confirm each setup case. The daemon checks who made the root, Then adds the paths that follow suit.
Review: the note for a failed write to the slice's cgroup.subtree_control
named a process standing in the slice whatever the cause. The step now
proves that cause (cgroup.procs non-empty, the pid named) and otherwise
names the write's own error. What offers the controller is the slice's
parent cgroup, at any depth of --tree-root, and is named as such. The
rehearsal's negative check no longer passes on a missing file, and it has
a case for each failure branch.
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… checks, unwritable only
The first cut planted a pid in the slice's cgroup.procs and re-ran the
install before the section's print-ruleset and --check runs, which then
read a tree the install had laid out differently. The rehearsal now
covers the failed write with an unwritable file only, after those
checks, and restores the file; the standing-process cause is proven by
the step from cgroup.procs and named with the pid, and is not rehearsed.
Two intentional single-quoted positionals carry their shellcheck note.
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Scope matches the title. The change adds one install step that writes +memory into the slice's cgroup.subtree_control, plus rehearsal checks for both branches. Clobber none. The new block sits after the delegation loop and before compute_cgroup_paths. It changes no earlier line. Correctness The order is right. The delegation loop at install-host-classifier.sh:1775-1789 makes the slice's cgroup.subtree_control first. grep -qw memory on the mount root's cgroup.subtree_control reads the controllers the root enables for its children, and that is the correct gate. The script is bash, so a kernel EBUSY on the write makes printf return non-zero and takes the else branch. The success-path check ^+memory$ is real, because the stand-in file exists and the step overwrites it. The daemon's cascade at crates/sandbox/src/lib.rs:1172-1184 starts at the cohort and depends on this step for the slice. The native fix is complete. The guest path does not get the same fix (finding 1). The existing open threads cover the unproven cause in the failed-write note and the nested --tree-root case. This review does not raise them again. Not checked: kernel behaviour on a real host. That needs a host run. This review relies on the lab evidence in the PR body.
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low · The fix is in the native installer only. In a microVM, the guest pid 1 creates minimald.slice itself in classifier::enter_daemon_leaf (crates/sandbox/src/lib.rs:1148). It then enables +memory on the cohort and its subtrees only (lib.rs:1172-1184). The installer never runs in the guest, so there the slice stays without the controller, and the cohort's +memory still fails with the ENOENT that the cascade discards. A box under the cgroup2 cover in a guest still reads no memory.max. The guest pid 1 stands in the mount root, not in the slice. So it can enable +memory on the slice before it moves into its leaf. Either add that step to enter_daemon_leaf for the guest, or state in the PR that the guest is out of scope. This is the one other place that creates the slice.
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Taken, in d909585: enter_daemon_leaf now tells a root it made from one it found. A root it made (the guest's) holds nothing, so it joins the cascade, and so does the cgroup above it, the guest's mount root, which the kernel exempts from the internal-process rule; the cohort's +memory below then has what it needs. A root that was there before (the installer's, natively) is left as before. The bare stand-in test asserts the ask on the mount root, the root and the cohort, and the installer's-tree test asserts the root is left alone. A guest reading its memory.max end to end is a VM check I will run separately; this round's lab evidence is native: the baseline holds, and the cover scenario still falls back to the empty tmpfs on both sides, since the cover mount itself is #3227's, so no box reads a memory.max from inside until that lands, with or without this change.
if grep -qw memory "$mount_root/cgroup.subtree_control" 2>/dev/null; then
if printf '+memory\n' >"$tree_root/cgroup.subtree_control" 2>/dev/null; then
note "enabled the memory controller on the slice ($tree_root/cgroup.subtree_control): a box reads its own memory.max under its cgroup2 cover once minimald enables it on the cohort below"
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low · The person who runs the installer reads this note on stdout. It names two design terms that no command or flag uses: "cgroup2 cover" and "the cohort below". The person cannot tell what the cover is or what the cohort is. The note also joins three facts in one line. Say only what the step did and what a box gets. An example: "enabled the memory controller on $tree_root. Boxes can read their own memory.max." 'cover' appears in printed text only here. 'cohort' is a pattern. It is also in the notes at lines 528, 1903, 1905 and 1907, so a fix to the wording can include those notes as well.
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Taken, in d909585: the note reads "enabled the memory controller on the slice, . Boxes can read their own memory.max." The older notes that say cohort are left as they were: the word is in the script's own flags (--cohort-address, --cohort-dscp), so the person running it has met it. Happy to rename those in a follow-up if you want the word out of the output altogether.
… daemon made
Natively the installer enables the controller on the slice, as root, before
anything is placed. In a microVM the guest's pid 1 makes the slice itself in
`enter_daemon_leaf`, and the cohort's `+memory` below it was refused for
want of the controller on the slice and on the mount root above it, so a
box in the guest read no memory.max under its cover.
`make_cgroup` now says whether it made a level. A root the entry made holds
nothing, so it joins the cascade, and so does the cgroup above it, the
guest's mount root, which the kernel exempts from the internal-process
rule. A root that was already there is left as before: natively this
process is still a member of it until it is placed. The bare stand-in test
asserts the ask on the mount root, the root and the cohort; the installer's
tree test asserts the root is left alone.
The installer's note on stdout now says only what the step did and what a
box gets.
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… modes hold
Root ignores file modes, so the case that chmods the slice's
cgroup.subtree_control read-only would see the write succeed and fail on
its own check. It now runs for a non-root harness only, as the read-only
rc-file case beside it does.
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Scope matches the title. The change covers the native installer step, the guest pid-1 path in enter_daemon_leaf, and the tests for both. Clobber none. git log on scripts/install-host-classifier.sh and crates/sandbox/src/lib.rs shows only this PR's own commits above 2b91ba87, and the diff reverts nothing. Correctness The made_root branch writes +memory to the root's parent only when this entry created the root. The production caller passes TREE_ROOT (/sys/fs/cgroup/minimald.slice), so that parent is the mount root, which the internal-process rule exempts. The test callers in net/classifier.rs create the root beforehand, so they keep the old path. Install and --pid placement are separate modes, so the slice is empty when the install step writes to it. The 2>&1 >file capture in the installer puts both a failed open and a failed builtin write into $err. Earlier threads (the cause the note did not prove, the vacuous negative check, guest scope, design terms, the root guard) are all addressed in the head commit. One item is not addressed. Existing hosts get +memory on the slice only after they run min finalize-install again, and the PR does not say so. Not checked I ran no build and no rehearsal. The guest end-to-end memory.max read needs a VM, which the author also defers.
note "could not enable the memory controller on the slice ($tree_root/cgroup.subtree_control): a process stands in the slice itself rather than in a leaf (pid ${standing% }); boxes read no memory.max until a re-install with the slice's processes in their leaves"
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note "could not enable the memory controller on the slice ($tree_root/cgroup.subtree_control): the write failed (${err:-no error text}); boxes read no memory.max until a re-install over a slice that takes it"
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low · These two install notes tell the person that boxes read no memory.max "until a re-install", but they name no command. The other refusals in this script give the command to run, for example "run min finalize-install again" at lines 544, 585, 1630 and 1632. Each note also joins three facts with a semicolon. The first note says the slice's processes must be "in their leaves" but does not say how to move them there. Name the command (min finalize-install) and split each note into short sentences. The note at line 1822 uses "verdicts", a design term no flag or command uses. Change that note too.
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Taken in 922edd0. Each note is now sentences, and each names its command: the standing-process case says to stop that daemon (min host stop local0), so that its next start places it in a leaf, then run min finalize-install again; the write-failure case says to run min finalize-install again once the slice takes the controller; and "verdicts" is gone from the parent-offers-nothing note and the comment above it (boxes get their leaves and their rules). The rehearsal's greps match the new text.
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nit · The diff adds a blank line between the --print-ruleset comment and the run_hc print_ruleset call that the comment describes. The comment no longer sits on its command. The blank line has no connection to this PR. Remove it.
…ak in sentences
The three notes joined their facts with semicolons, said "until a
re-install" with no command, and one said "verdicts", a design word no
command uses. Each now says what happened, what boxes read, and what to
run (min host stop local0 for a daemon standing in the slice, then min
finalize-install again). The stray blank line in install_test.sh goes.
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- Line 1808: After enabling memory on the slice via tree_root’s
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Scope matches the title and the PR body. The installer enables +memory on the slice. enter_daemon_leaf adds the root and the cgroup above it to the cascade only for a root that it made, which is the guest case. The rehearsal and the unit test cover both paths. Clobber none: git log on all four files shows only this PR's commits on top of the merges of #3145, #3147 and #3179. The diff reverts none of them. Correctness The Rust change is sound. A root that make_cgroup reports as made holds no process, and its parent in the guest is the cgroup2 mount root. The internal-process rule exempts the mount root. main.rs:867 is the only production caller. A native daemon that cannot make /sys/fs/cgroup/minimald.slice gets made_root = false or an error, so the host's root is not touched. In the installer, the err=$(... 2>&1 >file) capture works under the bash shebang. The shell reports a failed open and a failed write on the captured fd. The open CodeRabbit thread on line 1809 still stands: a daemon that ran its cascade before this install leaves boxes, deny and allow without the controller until it restarts. The success note does not say this. That thread has no reply yet, so this review does not repeat it as a finding. The findings below cover the two new failure notes and the untested standing-process branch. Not checked The guest end to end (a box in a microVM that reads memory.max) needs a VM boot and a build. The author says they will run it separately.
note "could not enable the memory controller on the slice ($tree_root/cgroup.subtree_control). A process stands in the slice itself rather than in a leaf (pid ${standing% }). Boxes read no memory.max. Stop that daemon (min host stop local0), so that its next start places it in a leaf, then run min finalize-install again."
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low · The person who runs the installer reads this note. It says "Stop that daemon (min host stop local0)". The code proves only that some pid is in the slice's cgroup.procs. It does not prove that the pid is minimald, or that the daemon is local0. min host stop <host> also stops each running box on that host first (BCLI-049, crates/minimal/src/cmd/boxes/lifecycle.rs:549). The note does not tell the person this. Say "A process (pid N) stands in the slice itself". If the command stays, say that it stops the running boxes. This is the only note in the script that names min host stop.
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Taken in 2a1e80c: the note now says only what the step read. "A process stands in the slice itself rather than in a leaf: pid N (comm)" lists each pid in the slice's cgroup.procs with its command from /proc/<pid>/comm, or "command unreadable" when that cannot be read. min host stop local0 is gone, so the note names no daemon or host and stops no boxes. The next step it gives is true for any process: once the slice's cgroup.procs is empty (stop each of those processes, or move it into a leaf), run min finalize-install again. The kernel refuses the controller only while a process stands in the slice, so that rerun takes it.
note "could not enable the memory controller on the slice ($tree_root/cgroup.subtree_control). A process stands in the slice itself rather than in a leaf (pid ${standing% }). Boxes read no memory.max. Stop that daemon (min host stop local0), so that its next start places it in a leaf, then run min finalize-install again."
else
note "could not enable the memory controller on the slice ($tree_root/cgroup.subtree_control). The write failed (${err:-no error text}). Boxes read no memory.max. Run min finalize-install again once the slice takes the controller."
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low · The note ends "Run min finalize-install again once the slice takes the controller." The person cannot see when the slice "takes the controller". The note also gives no action that makes it take it. If the person runs the command again now, the same write fails and the same note prints. The note does not pass the test: it gives no action that the person can take. State the situation and stop. Or name the condition that the error text points at, for example a read-only cgroup mount.
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Taken in 2a1e80c: the note for any other failed write now states the situation and stops: "The write failed (). Boxes read no memory.max." The rerun advice is gone, because the step cannot prove this failure's cause and a rerun now would fail the same way. The error text the kernel gave is the lead the person has. The rehearsal pins that this note names no rerun.
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low · No rehearsal drives the standing-process branch at install-host-classifier.sh:1815-1816. The comment here says that the rehearsal leaves it alone. The reply on the earlier thread says that the rehearsal has "a case for each failure branch: a pid standing in the slice". The branch and its note, which names a command, are unpinned. A change to the cgroup.procs check, or to the text, does not fail a test. AGENTS.md requires a test that pins a message's text. A stand-in can stage the branch: run as non-root, write a pid into $tree/cgroup.procs, and make cgroup.subtree_control unwritable.
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Taken in 2a1e80c, and you are right that my earlier reply overclaimed: the rehearsal had no case for a standing pid. It has one now, staged as you suggest. As non-root, with the slice's cgroup.subtree_control unwritable, it plants the pid of a sleep it owns in the slice's cgroup.procs and runs the install. It checks that the note names that pid, its command (sleep, where /proc exists), and the condition to rerun on, and that it names no min host stop and no "The write failed". The planted pid is taken out before the next run. The comment that said the rehearsal leaves this branch alone is rewritten: nothing else in the install reads the slice's own cgroup.procs, so the plant changes nothing else it lays out.
…what the slice proves
A daemon that started before the slice offered the memory controller ran
its cascade for nothing and repeats it only at its next start, so the
install now enables the controller on boxes, deny and allow too, top down
after the slice, and names where a refusal stops it.
The note for a process standing in the slice names each pid and its
command, read from /proc, and no daemon or host it cannot prove. It says
to run min finalize-install again once the slice's cgroup.procs is empty.
The note for any other failed write states the write's error and stops,
since a rerun would fail the same way.
The rehearsal stages the standing-process branch with a planted pid and
pins its text, and checks the cohort's three subtrees get the controller.
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if ! err=$(printf '+memory\n' 2>&1 >"$tree_root$cgroup/cgroup.subtree_control"); then
note "enabled the memory controller on $enabled, and could not enable it on $tree_root$cgroup/cgroup.subtree_control. The write failed (${err:-no error text}). Boxes under $tree_root$cgroup read no memory.max."
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Continue to the sibling subtree after a deny failure.
If enabling memory on boxes/deny fails, this break also skips boxes/allow. For example, a process placed directly in boxes/deny can cause that refusal. Since boxes already enabled memory, boxes/allow can still accept it independently. Skipping it leaves new allow-box leaves without memory.max.
Stop after a boxes failure, but attempt both verdict subtrees independently. Report each partial failure.
Based on learnings, the daemon does not repeat its controller cascade during installation or placement.
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Update the memory-enabling flow for the boxes verdict subtrees so a failure on boxes/deny does not let this break skip boxes/allow; attempt each subtree independently and report each partial failure. Preserve the stop behavior when enabling memory on boxes itself fails.
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The second half of gominimal/inbox#1227, found while reviewing #3227: once the cover is a real cgroup2 mount, the box still reads no
memory.max, and main's own e2e asks for it on that branch.Why. A controller reaches a cgroup only when every cgroup above it has enabled it in
cgroup.subtree_control. The sandbox enables the memory controller on the cohort and its subtrees when the daemon enters its leaf, but it cannot enable it on the slice: the daemon is still a member of the slice's tree at that point, and a cgroup that holds a process cannot enable a controller for its children. Nothing else did either, so the cohort's+memoryfailed withENOENTon every host, the cascade swallowed it (by design), and a box under the cover found nomemory.max.Change.
scripts/install-host-classifier.sh, after the delegation loop: when the mount root'scgroup.subtree_controloffersmemory, the step writes+memoryinto the slice'scgroup.subtree_controland says so. A root that offers no memory controller is noted, not a failure (boxes still get their leaves and verdicts, and read nomemory.max), and so is a slice that holds a process of its own. The rehearsal inscripts/install_test.shpins both: a stand-in root without the controller is noted and the slice is left as it was; one that offers it gets+memoryon the slice.Evidence. The installer's rehearsal (253 checks, the four new ones included) passes. Lab runs against a release build of main on Ubuntu 24.04 and Fedora: the control scenarios (host-address enforcement, baseline) pass on both sides with this change alone; with #3227's cover retry on top, the cover scenario goes fail -> pass on both distros and the box reads a populated cgroup2 root with the memory controller listed and a
memory.maxvalue, where the release shows the empty tmpfs fallback.With this in, #3227 can rebase and its native e2e's cgroup2 branch has the file it asks for.
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memory.maxlimit.