linux-kernel - Re: v2.6.26-rc7/cgroups: circular locking dependency

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Date:	Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:45:02 -0700
From:	Max Krasnyansky <maxk@...lcomm.com>
To:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
CC:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Paul Jackson <pj@....com>
Subject: Re: v2.6.26-rc7/cgroups: circular locking dependency

Paul Menage wrote:
> Second idea - can we just punt the call to rebuild_sched_domains() to
> a workqueue thread if it's due to a flag or cpumask change? Does it
> matter if the call doesn't happen synchronously? The work handler
> could easily nest the cgroup_lock() call inside get_online_cpus() and
> then call rebuild_sched_domains()

I was thinking about exactly the same thing. I kind of don't like async 
nature of it. Maybe it's ok but there might be some interesting races 
with async domain updates.

Max
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