linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cgroups: don't cache common ancestor in task counter subsys

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Date:	Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:17:34 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ben Blum <bblum@...rew.cmu.edu>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...hat.com>,
	Paul Menage <paul@...lmenage.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroups: don't cache common ancestor in task counter
 subsys

>> @@ -2151,7 +2151,7 @@ int cgroup_attach_proc(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *leader)
>>  			}
>>  		} else if (retval == -ESRCH) {
>>  			if (ss->cancel_attach_task)
>> -				ss->cancel_attach_task(cgrp, tsk);
>> +				ss->cancel_attach_task(cgrp, oldcgrp, tsk);
>>  		} else {
>>  			BUG_ON(1);
>>  		}
>> @@ -2191,7 +2191,8 @@ out_cancel_attach:
>>  					tsk = flex_array_get_ptr(group, i);
>>  					if (tsk == failed_task)
>>  						break;
>> -					ss->cancel_attach_task(cgrp, tsk);
>> +					ss->cancel_attach_task(cgrp, oldcgrp,
>> +							       tsk);
> 
> When we rollback there, we are dealing with oldcgrp of the last thread
> we have treated. All threads in the rollback list don't necessary belonged
> to that old_cgroup.
> 

Good point. I didn't look carefully at this case.

> And we can't try to retrieve these old_cgroup through task_cgroup_from_root() because
> the threads might have exited and thus could be assigned to the init cgroup.
> 
> I believe we need to cache these old cgroups in the flex array.
> 
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