linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix sleeping while atomic problem in sock mem

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Message-Id: <20111216.010959.917434953281175910.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 16 Dec 2011 01:09:59 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	glommer@...allels.com
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix sleeping while atomic problem in sock mem_cgroup.

From: Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:37:50 +0400

> Since we can't scan the proto_list to initialize sock cgroups, as it
> holds a rwlock, and we also want to keep the code generic enough to
> avoid calling the initialization functions of protocols directly,
> I propose we keep the interested parties in a separate list. This list
> is protected by a mutex so we can sleep and do the necessary allocations.
> 
> Also fixes a reference problem found by Randy Dunlap's randconfig.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>

Two small changes please:

1) Add an appropriate prefix to your subject line indicating the subsystem
   being changed by this patch, "net: fix sleeping ..." would be appropriate
   in this case.

2) Put the ifdef'ery into the memcontrol.h header file, rather than sock.c,
   f.e. rename register_sock_cgroup to __register_sock_cgroup(), and
   unregister_sock_cgroup to __unregister_sock_cgroup.  Then create two
   helper inlines in memcontrolh:

	#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR_KMEM
	static inline void register_sock_cgroup(struct proto *prot)
	{
		if (prot->proto_cgroup != NULL)
			register_sock_cgroup(prot);
	}
	static inline void unregister_sock_cgroup(struct proto *prot)
	{
		if (prot->proto_cgroup != NULL)
			unregister_sock_cgroup(prot);
	}
	#else
	static inline void register_sock_cgroup(struct proto *prot)
	{
	}
	static inline void unregister_sock_cgroup(struct proto *prot)
	{
	}
	#endif

   Then call these helpers unconditionally in net/core/sock.c

   That way you don't need any ifdefs in that file at all.
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