linux-kernel - Re: Attaching a process to cgroups

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Message-ID: <1340266982.29752.37.camel@marge.simpson.net>
Date:	Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:23:02 +0200
From:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
To:	Alexey Vlasov <renton@...ton.name>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Attaching a process to cgroups

On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 11:54 +0400, Alexey Vlasov wrote: 
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 02:28:18PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > 
> > kernel/cgroup.c::cgroup_attach_task()
> > {
> > ...
> > 	synchronize_rcu();
> > ...
> > }
> 
> So nothing can be done here? (I mean if only I knew how to fix it I
> wouldn't ask about it ;)

Sure, kill the obnoxious thing, it's sitting right in the middle of the
userspace interface.

I banged on it a while back (wrt explosive android patches), extracted
RCU from the userspace interface.  It seemed to work great, much faster,
couldn't make it explode.  I wouldn't bet anything I wasn't willing to
immediately part with that the result was really really safe though ;-)

-Mike

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