linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] cgroups: Add an API to attach a task to current task's cgroup

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Date:	Thu, 20 May 2010 15:26:52 -0700
From:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
To:	Sridhar Samudrala <samudrala.sridhar@...il.com>
Cc:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] cgroups: Add an API to attach a task to current 
	task's cgroup

On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Sridhar Samudrala
> <samudrala.sridhar@...il.com> wrote:
>> Add a new kernel API to attach a task to current task's cgroup
>> in all the active hierarchies.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
>

One other thought on this - this would be the first piece of code
that's attaching a task to a cgroup without holding the cgroup
directory inode i_mutex. I believe that this is probably OK.

Paul
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