linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] CGroups: cgroup member list enhancement/fix

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Message-ID: <20090714230841.GG5213@count0.beaverton.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:08:41 -0700
From:	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>
To:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
Cc:	Benjamin Blum <bblum@...gle.com>,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>, balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	lizf@...fujitzu.com, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	libcg-devel <libcg-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] CGroups: cgroup member list enhancement/fix

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 01:38:30PM -0700, Paul Menage wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Paul Menage<menage@...gle.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've been trying to think of a way to do that. AFAICS the only way to
> > do that reliably would be to move the call to cgroup_fork() that hooks
> > into the parent's cgroup inside the lock on the group leader's thread
> > list, and move the fork callbacks into cgroup_fork(). (Which would
> > mean that they'd not be able to sleep/fail, etc).
> 
> Currently the only user of the cgroup fork callbacks is the freezer cgroup.
> 
> Matt, if this callback was moved inside tasklist_lock, would that
> present any problems? Given that in other places you call
> freeze_task() from inside other low-level locks like css_set_lock
> (within a cgroup iteration) then hopefully it would be OK.

Yes, it should be OK.

> 
> The only question then would be whether anything between the point
> where cgroup_fork() is currently called, and the point where the new
> thread is added to its thread group list, cares about p->cgroups being
> valid. We can probably flush out any such assumptions by clearing
> tsk->cgroups in dup_task_struct, so that any attempts to reference it
> would immediately oops.

This is harder to verify the correctness of. You're probably right but
I'm not completely convinced yet.

Cheers,
	-Matt
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