linux-kernel - [tip:sched/core] sched/core: Delete PF_EXITING checks from cpu_cgroup

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Message-ID: <tip-446685e9bfa11174332fbb0b3218b37015fbf4ff@git.kernel.org>
Date:	Sun, 13 Sep 2015 04:01:14 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Kirill Tkhai <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, peterz@...radead.org,
	mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	efault@....de, hpa@...or.com, ktkhai@...n.com
Subject: [tip:sched/core] sched/core:
  Delete PF_EXITING checks from cpu_cgroup_exit() callback

Commit-ID:  446685e9bfa11174332fbb0b3218b37015fbf4ff
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/446685e9bfa11174332fbb0b3218b37015fbf4ff
Author:     Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...n.com>
AuthorDate: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 15:12:56 +0300
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
CommitDate: Sun, 13 Sep 2015 09:52:51 +0200

sched/core: Delete PF_EXITING checks from cpu_cgroup_exit() callback

cgroup_exit() is not called from copy_process() after commit:

  e8604cb43690 ("cgroup: fix spurious lockdep warning in cgroup_exit()")

from do_exit(). So this check is useless and the comment is obsolete.

Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...n.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/55E444C8.3020402@odin.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/sched/core.c | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 7c099e6..37ab6f9 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -8193,14 +8193,6 @@ static void cpu_cgroup_exit(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css,
 			    struct cgroup_subsys_state *old_css,
 			    struct task_struct *task)
 {
-	/*
-	 * cgroup_exit() is called in the copy_process() failure path.
-	 * Ignore this case since the task hasn't ran yet, this avoids
-	 * trying to poke a half freed task state from generic code.
-	 */
-	if (!(task->flags & PF_EXITING))
-		return;
-
 	sched_move_task(task);
 }
 
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