linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/8] cgroup: convert cgroup_ida to cgroup

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Date:	Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:10:19 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/8] cgroup: convert cgroup_ida to cgroup_idr

On 2013/7/30 2:28, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 03:07:48PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
>> @@ -4590,6 +4599,9 @@ static void cgroup_offline_fn(struct work_struct *work)
>>  	/* delete this cgroup from parent->children */
>>  	list_del_rcu(&cgrp->sibling);
>>  
>> +	if (cgrp->id)
>> +		idr_remove(&cgrp->root->cgroup_idr, cgrp->id);
>> +
> 
> Yeap, if we're gonna allow lookups, removal should happen here but can
> we please add short comment explaining why that is?

sure

> Also, do we want to clear cgrp->id?
> 

Set cgrp->id to 0? No, 0 is a valid id. The if is here because at first
I called idr_alloc() very late in cgroup_create(), so cgroup_offline_fn()
can be called while cgrp->id hasn't been initialized. Now I can remove
this check.

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