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Message-ID: <4A8CBC4A.4030502@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:00:26 +0800
From: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
To: Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
CC: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, bblum@...rew.cmu.edu,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] Adds ability to move all threads in a process to
a new cgroup atomically
Paul Menage wrote:
> From: Ben Blum <bblum@...gle.com>
>
>
> Adds ability to move all threads in a process to a new cgroup atomically
>
> This patch adds functionality that enables users to move all threads in a
> threadgroup at once to a cgroup by writing the tgid to the 'cgroup.procs'
> file. This current implementation makes use of a per-threadgroup rwsem that's
> taken for reading in the fork() path to prevent newly forking threads within
> the threadgroup from "escaping" while the move is in progress.
>
> Cgroups subsystems that need to perform per-thread actions in their
> "attach" callback are (currently) responsible for doing their own
> synchronization, since this occurs outside of the critical section
> that locks against cloning within a thread group.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
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