Source File
	cgroup_linux.go

Belonging Package
	internal/runtime/cgroup

// Copyright 2025 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.

package cgroup

import (
	"internal/bytealg"
	"internal/runtime/strconv"
	"internal/runtime/syscall"
)

var (
	ErrNoCgroup error = stringError("not in a cgroup")

	errMalformedFile error = stringError("malformed file")
)

const _PATH_MAX = 4096

const (
	// Required amount of scratch space for CPULimit.
	//
	// TODO(prattmic): This is shockingly large (~70KiB) due to the (very
	// unlikely) combination of extremely long paths consisting mostly
	// escaped characters. The scratch buffer ends up in .bss in package
	// runtime, so it doesn't contribute to binary size and generally won't
	// be faulted in, but it would still be nice to shrink this. A more
	// complex parser that did not need to keep entire lines in memory
	// could get away with much less. Alternatively, we could do a one-off
	// mmap allocation for this buffer, which is only mapped larger if we
	// actually need the extra space.
	ScratchSize = PathSize + ParseSize

	// Required space to store a path of the cgroup in the filesystem.
	PathSize = _PATH_MAX

	// /proc/self/mountinfo path escape sequences are 4 characters long, so
	// a path consisting entirely of escaped characters could be 4 times
	// larger.
	escapedPathMax = 4 * _PATH_MAX

	// Required space to parse /proc/self/mountinfo and /proc/self/cgroup.
	// See findCPUMount and findCPURelativePath.
	ParseSize = 4 * escapedPathMax
)

// Include explicit NUL to be sure we include it in the slice.
const (
	v2MaxFile    = "/cpu.max\x00"
	v1QuotaFile  = "/cpu.cfs_quota_us\x00"
	v1PeriodFile = "/cpu.cfs_period_us\x00"
)

// Version indicates the cgroup version.
type Version int

const (
	VersionUnknown Version = iota
	V1
	V2
)

// CPU owns the FDs required to read the CPU limit from a cgroup.
type CPU struct {
	version Version

	// For cgroup v1, this is cpu.cfs_quota_us.
	// For cgroup v2, this is cpu.max.
	quotaFD int

	// For cgroup v1, this is cpu.cfs_period_us.
	// For cgroup v2, this is unused.
	periodFD int
}

func (c CPU) Close() {
	switch c.version {
	case V1:
		syscall.Close(c.quotaFD)
		syscall.Close(c.periodFD)
	case V2:
		syscall.Close(c.quotaFD)
	default:
		throw("impossible cgroup version")
	}
}

func checkBufferSize(s []byte, size int) {
	if len(s) != size {
		println("runtime: cgroup buffer length", len(s), "want", size)
		throw("runtime: cgroup invalid buffer length")
	}
}

// OpenCPU returns a CPU for the CPU cgroup containing the current process, or
// ErrNoCgroup if the process is not in a CPU cgroup.
//
// scratch must have length ScratchSize.
func OpenCPU(scratch []byte) (CPU, error) {
	checkBufferSize(scratch, ScratchSize)

	base := scratch[:PathSize]
	scratch2 := scratch[PathSize:]

	n, version, err := FindCPU(base, scratch2)
	if err != nil {
		return CPU{}, err
	}

	switch version {
	case 1:
		n2 := copy(base[n:], v1QuotaFile)
		path := base[:n+n2]
		quotaFD, errno := syscall.Open(&path[0], syscall.O_RDONLY|syscall.O_CLOEXEC, 0)
		if errno != 0 {
			// This may fail if this process was migrated out of
			// the cgroup found by FindCPU and that cgroup has been
			// deleted.
			return CPU{}, errSyscallFailed
		}

		n2 = copy(base[n:], v1PeriodFile)
		path = base[:n+n2]
		periodFD, errno := syscall.Open(&path[0], syscall.O_RDONLY|syscall.O_CLOEXEC, 0)
		if errno != 0 {
			// This may fail if this process was migrated out of
			// the cgroup found by FindCPU and that cgroup has been
			// deleted.
			return CPU{}, errSyscallFailed
		}

		c := CPU{
			version:  1,
			quotaFD:  quotaFD,
			periodFD: periodFD,
		}
		return c, nil
	case 2:
		n2 := copy(base[n:], v2MaxFile)
		path := base[:n+n2]
		maxFD, errno := syscall.Open(&path[0], syscall.O_RDONLY|syscall.O_CLOEXEC, 0)
		if errno != 0 {
			// This may fail if this process was migrated out of
			// the cgroup found by FindCPU and that cgroup has been
			// deleted.
			return CPU{}, errSyscallFailed
		}

		c := CPU{
			version:  2,
			quotaFD:  maxFD,
			periodFD: -1,
		}
		return c, nil
	default:
		throw("impossible cgroup version")
		panic("unreachable")
	}
}

// Returns average CPU throughput limit from the cgroup, or ok false if there
// is no limit.
func ReadCPULimit(c CPU) (float64, bool, error) {
	switch c.version {
	case 1:
		quota, err := readV1Number(c.quotaFD)
		if err != nil {
			return 0, false, errMalformedFile
		}

		if quota < 0 {
			// No limit.
			return 0, false, nil
		}

		period, err := readV1Number(c.periodFD)
		if err != nil {
			return 0, false, errMalformedFile
		}

		return float64(quota) / float64(period), true, nil
	case 2:
		// quotaFD is the cpu.max FD.
		return readV2Limit(c.quotaFD)
	default:
		throw("impossible cgroup version")
		panic("unreachable")
	}
}

// Returns the value from the quota/period file.
func readV1Number(fd int) (int64, error) {
	// The format of the file is "<value>\n" where the value is in
	// int64 microseconds and, if quota, may be -1 to indicate no limit.
	//
	// MaxInt64 requires 19 bytes to display in base 10, thus the
	// conservative max size of this file is 19 + 1 (newline) = 20 bytes.
	// We'll provide a bit more for good measure.
	//
	// Always read from the beginning of the file to get a fresh value.
	var b [64]byte
	n, errno := syscall.Pread(fd, b[:], 0)
	if errno != 0 {
		return 0, errSyscallFailed
	}
	if n == len(b) {
		return 0, errMalformedFile
	}

	buf := b[:n]
	return parseV1Number(buf)
}

func parseV1Number(buf []byte) (int64, error) {
	// Ignore trailing newline.
	i := bytealg.IndexByte(buf, '\n')
	if i < 0 {
		return 0, errMalformedFile
	}
	buf = buf[:i]

	val, ok := strconv.Atoi64(string(buf))
	if !ok {
		return 0, errMalformedFile
	}

	return val, nil
}

// Returns CPU throughput limit, or ok false if there is no limit.
func readV2Limit(fd int) (float64, bool, error) {
	// The format of the file is "<quota> <period>\n" where quota and
	// period are microseconds and quota may be "max" to indicate no limit.
	//
	// Note that the kernel is inconsistent about whether the values are
	// uint64 or int64: values are parsed as uint64 but printed as int64.
	// See kernel/sched/core.c:cpu_max_{show,write}.
	//
	// In practice, the kernel limits the period to 1s (1000000us) (see
	// max_cfs_quota_period), and the quota to (1<<44)us (see
	// max_cfs_runtime), so these values can't get large enough for the
	// distinction to matter.
	//
	// MaxInt64 requires 19 bytes to display in base 10, thus the
	// conservative max size of this file is 19 + 19 + 1 (space) + 1
	// (newline) = 40 bytes. We'll provide a bit more for good measure.
	//
	// Always read from the beginning of the file to get a fresh value.
	var b [64]byte
	n, errno := syscall.Pread(fd, b[:], 0)
	if errno != 0 {
		return 0, false, errSyscallFailed
	}
	if n == len(b) {
		return 0, false, errMalformedFile
	}

	buf := b[:n]
	return parseV2Limit(buf)
}

func parseV2Limit(buf []byte) (float64, bool, error) {
	i := bytealg.IndexByte(buf, ' ')
	if i < 0 {
		return 0, false, errMalformedFile
	}

	quotaStr := buf[:i]
	if bytealg.Compare(quotaStr, []byte("max")) == 0 {
		// No limit.
		return 0, false, nil
	}

	periodStr := buf[i+1:]
	// Ignore trailing newline, if any.
	i = bytealg.IndexByte(periodStr, '\n')
	if i < 0 {
		return 0, false, errMalformedFile
	}
	periodStr = periodStr[:i]

	quota, ok := strconv.Atoi64(string(quotaStr))
	if !ok {
		return 0, false, errMalformedFile
	}

	period, ok := strconv.Atoi64(string(periodStr))
	if !ok {
		return 0, false, errMalformedFile
	}

	return float64(quota) / float64(period), true, nil
}

// FindCPU finds the path to the CPU cgroup that this process is a member of
// and places it in out. scratch is a scratch buffer for internal use.
//
// out must have length PathSize. scratch must have length ParseSize.
//
// Returns the number of bytes written to out and the cgroup version (1 or 2).
//
// Returns ErrNoCgroup if the process is not in a CPU cgroup.
func FindCPU(out []byte, scratch []byte) (int, Version, error) {
	checkBufferSize(out, PathSize)
	checkBufferSize(scratch, ParseSize)

	// The cgroup path is <cgroup mount point> + <relative path>.
	//
	// This is racy if our cgroup is changed while this runs. For example,
	// initially there is only a cgroup v2 mount and we are not in a
	// cgroup. After, there a cgroup v1 mount with a CPU controller and we
	// are placed in a cgroup in this hierarchy. In that case, findCPUMount
	// could pick the v2 mount, and findCPURelativePath could find the v2
	// relative path.
	//
	// In this case we'll later fail to read the cgroup files and fall back
	// to assuming no cgroup.

	n, err := FindCPUMountPoint(out, scratch)
	if err != nil {
		return 0, 0, err
	}

	// The relative path always starts with /, so we can directly append it
	// to the mount point.
	n2, version, err := FindCPURelativePath(out[n:], scratch)
	if err != nil {
		return 0, 0, err
	}
	n += n2

	return n, version, nil
}

// FindCPURelativePath finds the path to the CPU cgroup that this process is a member of
// relative to the root of the cgroup mount and places it in out. scratch is a
// scratch buffer for internal use.
//
// out must have length PathSize minus the size of the cgroup mount root (if
// known). scratch must have length ParseSize.
//
// Returns the number of bytes written to out and the cgroup version (1 or 2).
//
// Returns ErrNoCgroup if the process is not in a CPU cgroup.
func FindCPURelativePath(out []byte, scratch []byte) (int, Version, error) {
	path := []byte("/proc/self/cgroup\x00")
	fd, errno := syscall.Open(&path[0], syscall.O_RDONLY|syscall.O_CLOEXEC, 0)
	if errno == syscall.ENOENT {
		return 0, 0, ErrNoCgroup
	} else if errno != 0 {
		return 0, 0, errSyscallFailed
	}

	// The relative path always starts with /, so we can directly append it
	// to the mount point.
	n, version, err := parseCPURelativePath(fd, syscall.Read, out[:], scratch)
	if err != nil {
		syscall.Close(fd)
		return 0, 0, err
	}

	syscall.Close(fd)
	return n, version, nil
}

// Finds the path of the current process's CPU cgroup relative to the cgroup
// mount and writes it to out.
//
// Returns the number of bytes written and the cgroup version (1 or 2).
func parseCPURelativePath(fd int, read func(fd int, b []byte) (int, uintptr), out []byte, scratch []byte) (int, Version, error) {
	// The format of each line is
	//
	//   hierarchy-ID:controller-list:cgroup-path
	//
	// controller-list is comma-separated.
	// See man 5 cgroup for more details.
	//
	// cgroup v2 has hierarchy-ID 0. If a v1 hierarchy contains "cpu", that
	// is the CPU controller. Otherwise the v2 hierarchy (if any) is the
	// CPU controller.
	//
	// hierarchy-ID and controller-list have relatively small maximum
	// sizes, and the path can be up to _PATH_MAX, so we need a bit more
	// than 1 _PATH_MAX of scratch space.

	l := newLineReader(fd, scratch, read)

	// Bytes written to out.
	n := 0

	for {
		err := l.next()
		if err == errIncompleteLine {
			// Don't allow incomplete lines. While in theory the
			// incomplete line may be for a controller we don't
			// care about, in practice all lines should be of
			// similar length, so we should just have a buffer big
			// enough for any.
			return 0, 0, err
		} else if err == errEOF {
			break
		} else if err != nil {
			return 0, 0, err
		}

		line := l.line()

		// The format of each line is
		//
		//   hierarchy-ID:controller-list:cgroup-path
		//
		// controller-list is comma-separated.
		// See man 5 cgroup for more details.
		i := bytealg.IndexByte(line, ':')
		if i < 0 {
			return 0, 0, errMalformedFile
		}

		hierarchy := line[:i]
		line = line[i+1:]

		i = bytealg.IndexByte(line, ':')
		if i < 0 {
			return 0, 0, errMalformedFile
		}

		controllers := line[:i]
		line = line[i+1:]

		path := line

		if string(hierarchy) == "0" {
			// v2 hierarchy.
			n = copy(out, path)
			// Keep searching, we might find a v1 hierarchy with a
			// CPU controller, which takes precedence.
		} else {
			// v1 hierarchy
			if containsCPU(controllers) {
				// Found a v1 CPU controller. This must be the
				// only one, so we're done.
				return copy(out, path), V1, nil
			}
		}
	}

	if n == 0 {
		// Found nothing.
		return 0, 0, ErrNoCgroup
	}

	// Must be v2, v1 returns above.
	return n, V2, nil
}

// Returns true if comma-separated list b contains "cpu".
func containsCPU(b []byte) bool {
	for len(b) > 0 {
		i := bytealg.IndexByte(b, ',')
		if i < 0 {
			// Neither cmd/compile nor gccgo allocates for these string conversions.
			return string(b) == "cpu"
		}

		curr := b[:i]
		rest := b[i+1:]

		if string(curr) == "cpu" {
			return true
		}

		b = rest
	}

	return false
}

// FindCPUMountPoint finds the root of the CPU cgroup mount places it in out.
// scratch is a scratch buffer for internal use.
//
// out must have length PathSize. scratch must have length ParseSize.
//
// Returns the number of bytes written to out.
//
// Returns ErrNoCgroup if the process is not in a CPU cgroup.
func FindCPUMountPoint(out []byte, scratch []byte) (int, error) {
	checkBufferSize(out, PathSize)
	checkBufferSize(scratch, ParseSize)

	path := []byte("/proc/self/mountinfo\x00")
	fd, errno := syscall.Open(&path[0], syscall.O_RDONLY|syscall.O_CLOEXEC, 0)
	if errno == syscall.ENOENT {
		return 0, ErrNoCgroup
	} else if errno != 0 {
		return 0, errSyscallFailed
	}

	n, err := parseCPUMount(fd, syscall.Read, out, scratch)
	if err != nil {
		syscall.Close(fd)
		return 0, err
	}
	syscall.Close(fd)

	return n, nil
}

// Returns the mount point for the cpu cgroup controller (v1 or v2) from
// /proc/self/mountinfo.
func parseCPUMount(fd int, read func(fd int, b []byte) (int, uintptr), out []byte, scratch []byte) (int, error) {
	// The format of each line is:
	//
	// 36 35 98:0 /mnt1 /mnt2 rw,noatime master:1 - ext3 /dev/root rw,errors=continue
	// (1)(2)(3)   (4)   (5)      (6)      (7)   (8) (9)   (10)         (11)
	//
	// (1) mount ID:  unique identifier of the mount (may be reused after umount)
	// (2) parent ID:  ID of parent (or of self for the top of the mount tree)
	// (3) major:minor:  value of st_dev for files on filesystem
	// (4) root:  root of the mount within the filesystem
	// (5) mount point:  mount point relative to the process's root
	// (6) mount options:  per mount options
	// (7) optional fields:  zero or more fields of the form "tag[:value]"
	// (8) separator:  marks the end of the optional fields
	// (9) filesystem type:  name of filesystem of the form "type[.subtype]"
	// (10) mount source:  filesystem specific information or "none"
	// (11) super options:  per super block options
	//
	// See man 5 proc_pid_mountinfo for more details.
	//
	// Note that emitted paths will not contain space, tab, newline, or
	// carriage return. Those are escaped. See Linux show_mountinfo ->
	// show_path. We must unescape before returning.
	//
	// We return the mount point (5) if the filesystem type (9) is cgroup2,
	// or cgroup with "cpu" in the super options (11).
	//
	// (4), (5), and (10) are up to _PATH_MAX. The remaining fields have a
	// small fixed maximum size, so 4*_PATH_MAX is plenty of scratch space.
	// Note that non-cgroup mounts may have arbitrarily long (11), but we
	// can skip those when parsing.

	l := newLineReader(fd, scratch, read)

	// Bytes written to out.
	n := 0

	for {
		//incomplete := false
		err := l.next()
		if err == errIncompleteLine {
			// An incomplete line is fine as long as it doesn't
			// impede parsing the fields we need. It shouldn't be
			// possible for any mount to use more than 3*PATH_MAX
			// before (9) because there are two paths and all other
			// earlier fields have bounded options. Only (11) has
			// unbounded options.
		} else if err == errEOF {
			break
		} else if err != nil {
			return 0, err
		}

		line := l.line()

		// Skip first four fields.
		for range 4 {
			i := bytealg.IndexByte(line, ' ')
			if i < 0 {
				return 0, errMalformedFile
			}
			line = line[i+1:]
		}

		// (5) mount point:  mount point relative to the process's root
		i := bytealg.IndexByte(line, ' ')
		if i < 0 {
			return 0, errMalformedFile
		}
		mnt := line[:i]
		line = line[i+1:]

		// Skip ahead past optional fields, delimited by " - ".
		for {
			i = bytealg.IndexByte(line, ' ')
			if i < 0 {
				return 0, errMalformedFile
			}
			if i+3 >= len(line) {
				return 0, errMalformedFile
			}
			delim := line[i : i+3]
			if string(delim) == " - " {
				line = line[i+3:]
				break
			}
			line = line[i+1:]
		}

		// (9) filesystem type:  name of filesystem of the form "type[.subtype]"
		i = bytealg.IndexByte(line, ' ')
		if i < 0 {
			return 0, errMalformedFile
		}
		ftype := line[:i]
		line = line[i+1:]

		if string(ftype) != "cgroup" && string(ftype) != "cgroup2" {
			continue
		}

		// As in findCPUPath, cgroup v1 with a CPU controller takes
		// precendence over cgroup v2.
		if string(ftype) == "cgroup2" {
			// v2 hierarchy.
			n, err = unescapePath(out, mnt)
			if err != nil {
				// Don't keep searching on error. The kernel
				// should never produce broken escaping.
				return n, err
			}
			// Keep searching, we might find a v1 hierarchy with a
			// CPU controller, which takes precedence.
			continue
		}

		// (10) mount source:  filesystem specific information or "none"
		i = bytealg.IndexByte(line, ' ')
		if i < 0 {
			return 0, errMalformedFile
		}
		// Don't care about mount source.
		line = line[i+1:]

		// (11) super options:  per super block options
		superOpt := line

		// v1 hierarchy
		if containsCPU(superOpt) {
			// Found a v1 CPU controller. This must be the
			// only one, so we're done.
			return unescapePath(out, mnt)
		}
	}

	if n == 0 {
		// Found nothing.
		return 0, ErrNoCgroup
	}

	return n, nil
}

var errInvalidEscape error = stringError("invalid path escape sequence")

// unescapePath copies in to out, unescaping escape sequences generated by
// Linux's show_path.
//
// That is, '\', ' ', '\t', and '\n' are converted to octal escape sequences,
// like '\040' for space.
//
// out must be at least as large as in.
//
// Returns the number of bytes written to out.
//
// Also see escapePath in cgroup_linux_test.go.
func unescapePath(out []byte, in []byte) (int, error) {
	// Not strictly necessary, but simplifies the implementation and will
	// always hold in users.
	if len(out) < len(in) {
		throw("output too small")
	}

	var outi, ini int
	for ini < len(in) {
		c := in[ini]
		if c != '\\' {
			out[outi] = c
			outi++
			ini++
			continue
		}

		// Start of escape sequence.

		// Escape sequence is always 4 characters: one slash and three
		// digits.
		if ini+3 >= len(in) {
			return outi, errInvalidEscape
		}

		var outc byte
		for i := range 3 {
			c := in[ini+1+i]
			if c < '0' || c > '9' {
				return outi, errInvalidEscape
			}

			outc *= 8
			outc += c - '0'
		}

		out[outi] = outc
		outi++

		ini += 4
	}

	return outi, nil
}

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