linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/23] cgroup: pass around cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup in subsystem methods

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Message-ID: <20130805175706.GA7878@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 5 Aug 2013 13:57:06 -0400
From:	Aristeu Rozanski <aris@...hat.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	lizefan@...wei.com, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>,
	Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@...-carit.de>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/23] cgroup: pass around cgroup_subsys_state instead of
 cgroup in subsystem methods

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 05:49:46PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> cgroup is currently in the process of transitioning to using struct
> cgroup_subsys_state * as the primary handle instead of struct cgroup *
> in subsystem implementations for the following reasons.
> 
> * With unified hierarchy, subsystems will be dynamically bound and
>   unbound from cgroups and thus css's (cgroup_subsys_state) may be
>   created and destroyed dynamically over the lifetime of a cgroup,
>   which is different from the current state where all css's are
>   allocated and destroyed together with the associated cgroup.  This
>   in turn means that cgroup_css() should be synchronized and may
>   return NULL, making it more cumbersome to use.
> 
> * Differing levels of per-subsystem granularity in the unified
>   hierarchy means that the task and descendant iterators should behave
>   differently depending on the specific subsystem the iteration is
>   being performed for.
> 
> * In majority of the cases, subsystems only care about its part in the
>   cgroup hierarchy - ie. the hierarchy of css's.  Subsystem methods
>   often obtain the matching css pointer from the cgroup and don't
>   bother with the cgroup pointer itself.  Passing around css fits
>   much better.
> 
> This patch converts all cgroup_subsys methods to take @css instead of
> @cgroup.  The conversions are mostly straight-forward.  A few
> noteworthy changes are
> 
> * ->css_alloc() now takes css of the parent cgroup rather than the
>   pointer to the new cgroup as the css for the new cgroup doesn't
>   exist yet.  Knowing the parent css is enough for all the existing
>   subsystems.
> 
> * In kernel/cgroup.c::offline_css(), unnecessary open coded css
>   dereference is replaced with local variable access.
> 
> This patch shouldn't cause any behavior differences.

looks fine on device_cgroup.c bit

Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@...hat.com>

-- 
Aristeu

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