linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] cgroup, memcg: implement css->id and convert css_from

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Message-ID: <535DCBFC.4000404@huawei.com>
Date:	Mon, 28 Apr 2014 11:33:16 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
CC:	<cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<hannes@...xchg.org>, <mhocko@...e.cz>, <nasa4836@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] cgroup, memcg: implement css->id and convert css_from_id()
 to use it

On 2014/4/25 5:02, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Until now, cgroup->id has been used to identify all the associated
> csses and css_from_id() takes cgroup ID and returns the matching css
> by looking up the cgroup and then dereferencing the css associated
> with it; however, now that the lifetimes of cgroup and css are
> separate, this is incorrect and breaks on the unified hierarchy when a
> controller is disabled and enabled back again before the previous
> instance is released.
> 
> This patch adds css->id which is a subsystem-unique ID and converts
> css_from_id() to look up by the new css->id instead.  memcg is the
> only user of css_from_id() and also converted to use css->id instead.
> 

netprio_cgroup also needs to be updated.

> For traditional hierarchies, this shouldn't make any functional
> difference.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
> Cc: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@...il.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/cgroup.h |  9 ++++++++
>  kernel/cgroup.c        | 59 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>  mm/memcontrol.c        |  4 ++--
>  3 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> 


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