linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cgroup: remove redundate get/put of old css

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Message-ID: <20111217164145.GA437@somewhere>
Date:	Sat, 17 Dec 2011 17:41:48 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@...omium.org>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Paul Menage <paul@...lmenage.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroup: remove redundate get/put of old css_set from
 migrate

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 08:38:31AM -0800, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:
> We can now assume that the css_set reference held by the task
> will not go away for an exiting task. PF_EXITING state can be
> trusted throughout migration by checking it after locking
> threadgroup.
> 
> This patch depends on:
> 
> commit cd3d095275374220921fcf0d4e0c16584b26ddbc
> Author: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Date:   Mon Dec 12 18:12:21 2011 -0800
> 
>     cgroup: always lock threadgroup during migration
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@...omium.org>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
> Cc: containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org
> Cc: cgroups@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>

Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>

> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@...lmenage.org>
> ---
>  kernel/cgroup.c |   25 ++++++-------------------
>  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
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