cgroup_taskset_first(9)

💅 cgroup_taskset_first — Kernel API Manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so this is a page from the Kernel API Manual and it's about one very specific little function, and honestly? she's a reset button with main character energy. let's get into it 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

cgroup_taskset_first — reset the taskset and hand you back the very first task 💖

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

struct task_struct * cgroup_taskset_first (struct cgroup_taskset *tset ,
struct cgroup_subsys_state **dst_cssp );

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🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• tset — the taskset you're obsessed with rn, aka the taskset of interest 🫶
• dst_cssp — your output variable, and she holds the destination css 💅

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so what happens is: the tset iteration gets initialized, and then the first task is returned. that's it. that's the whole vibe. reset, then first task, slay ✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

all of these live in the kernel file ./kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c and honestly the whole friend group showed up:

• cgroup_ssid_enabled(9)
• cgroup_on_dfl(9)
• cgroup_e_css_by_mask(9)
• cgroup_e_css(9)
• cgroup_get_e_css(9)
• __cgroup_task_count(9)
• cgroup_task_count(9)
• for_each_css(9)
• do_each_subsys_mask(9)
• css_set_populated(9)
• css_update_populated(9)
• css_set_update_populated(9)
• css_set_move_task(9)
• compare_css_sets(9)
• find_existing_css_set(9)
• allocate_cgrp_cset_links(9)
• link_css_set(9)
• find_css_set(9)
• cgroup_file_mode(9)
• cgroup_calc_subtree_ss_mask(9)
• cgroup_kn_unlock(9)
• cgroup_kn_lock_live(9)
• css_clear_dir(9)
• css_populate_dir(9)
• cgroup_attach_lock(9)
• cgroup_attach_unlock(9)
• cgroup_migrate_add_task(9)
• cgroup_taskset_next(9)
• cgroup_migrate_execute(9)
• cgroup_migrate_vet_dst(9)
• cgroup_migrate_finish(9)
• cgroup_migrate_add_src(9)
• cgroup_migrate_prepare_dst(9)
• cgroup_migrate(9)
• cgroup_attach_task(9)
• cgroup_update_dfl_csses(9)
• cgroup_lock_and_drain_offline(9)
• cgroup_save_control(9)
• cgroup_propagate_control(9)
• cgroup_restore_control(9)
• cgroup_apply_control_enable(9)
• cgroup_apply_control_disable(9)
• cgroup_apply_control(9)
• cgroup_finalize_control(9)
• cgroup_enable_threaded(9)
• cgroup_tryget_css(9)
• cgroup_addrm_files(9)
• cgroup_rm_cftypes(9)
• cgroup_add_cftypes(9)
• cgroup_add_dfl_cftypes(9)
• cgroup_add_legacy_cftypes(9)
• cgroup_file_notify(9)
• cgroup_file_show(9)
• css_next_child(9)
• css_next_descendant_pre(9)
• css_rightmost_descendant(9)
• css_next_descendant_post(9)
• css_has_online_children(9)
• css_task_iter_advance_css_set(9)
• css_task_iter_start(9)
• css_task_iter_next(9)
• css_task_iter_end(9)
• css_create(9)
• kill_css_sync(9)
• kill_css_finish(9)
• cgroup_destroy_locked(9)
• cgroup_init_early(9)
• cgroup_init(9)
• cgroup_fork(9)
• cgroup_v1v2_get_from_file(9)
• cgroup_get_from_file(9)
• cgroup_css_set_fork(9)
• cgroup_css_set_put_fork(9)
• cgroup_can_fork(9)
• cgroup_cancel_fork(9)
• cgroup_post_fork(9)
• cgroup_task_exit(9)
• css_tryget_online_from_dir(9)
• css_from_id(9)
• cgroup_get_from_path(9)
• cgroup_v1v2_get_from_fd(9)
• cgroup_get_from_fd(9)
• cgroup_parse_float(9)

like, that's the entire gc and every single one of them is linked, no cap 💀👑

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okay that's the whole page bestie!! this one came from the ./kernel/cgroup source and she's dated October 2026 — go forth and iterate, ily, bye 🧚💜