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@@ -955,6 +955,22 @@ config CGROUP_FREEZER
Provides a way to freeze and unfreeze all tasks in a
cgroup.
+config CGROUP_PIDS
+ bool "PIDs cgroup subsystem"
+ help
+ Provides enforcement of process number limits in the scope of a
+ cgroup. Any attempt to fork more processes than is allowed in the
+ cgroup will fail. PIDs are fundamentally a global resource because it
+ is fairly trivial to reach PID exhaustion before you reach even a
+ conservative kmemcg limit. As a result, it is possible to grind a
+ system to halt without being limited by other cgroup policies. The
+ PIDs cgroup subsystem is designed to stop this from happening.
+
+ It should be noted that organisational operations (such as attaching
+ to a cgroup hierarchy will *not* be blocked by the PIDs subsystem),
+ since the PIDs limit only affects a process's ability to fork, not to
+ attach to a cgroup.
+
config CGROUP_DEVICE
bool "Device controller for cgroups"
help