linux-kernel - [cgroup/for-4.6 2/2] cgroup: suppress spurious de-populated events

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Date:	Wed, 2 Mar 2016 13:07:56 -0500
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...com
Subject: [cgroup/for-4.6 2/2] cgroup: suppress spurious de-populated events

During task migration, tasks may transfer between two css_sets which
are associated with the same cgroup.  If those tasks are the only
tasks in the cgroup, this currently triggers a spurious de-populated
event on the cgroup.

Fix it by bumping up populated count before bumping it down during
migration to ensure that it doesn't reach zero spuriously.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/cgroup.c |    5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -678,6 +678,9 @@ static void css_set_move_task(struct tas
 {
 	lockdep_assert_held(&css_set_lock);
 
+	if (to_cset && !css_set_populated(to_cset))
+		css_set_update_populated(to_cset, true);
+
 	if (from_cset) {
 		struct css_task_iter *it, *pos;
 
@@ -711,8 +714,6 @@ static void css_set_move_task(struct tas
 		 */
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(task->flags & PF_EXITING);
 
-		if (!css_set_populated(to_cset))
-			css_set_update_populated(to_cset, true);
 		rcu_assign_pointer(task->cgroups, to_cset);
 		list_add_tail(&task->cg_list, use_mg_tasks ? &to_cset->mg_tasks :
 							     &to_cset->tasks);