[PATCH 1/2 v3] cgroup: Remove unnecessary task_lock before fetching css_set on migration
From: Frederic Weisbecker <hidden>
Date: 2011-12-21 19:03:32
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Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
When we fetch the css_set of the tasks on cgroup migration, we don't need anymore to synchronize against cgroup_exit() that could swap the old one with init_css_set. Now that we are using threadgroup_lock() during the migrations, we don't need to worry about it anymore. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <redacted> Reviewed-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <redacted> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <redacted> Cc: Tejun Heo <redacted> Cc: Containers <redacted> Cc: Cgroups <redacted> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <redacted> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <redacted> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org> Cc: Paul Menage <redacted> --- kernel/cgroup.c | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index bc3caff..24f6d6f 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c@@ -1850,14 +1850,14 @@ static int cgroup_task_migrate(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cgroup *oldcgrp, struct css_set *newcg; /* - * get old css_set. we need to take task_lock and refcount it, because - * an exiting task can change its css_set to init_css_set and drop its - * old one without taking cgroup_mutex. + * get old css_set. We are synchronized through threadgroup_lock() + * against PF_EXITING setting such that we can't race against + * cgroup_exit() changing the css_set to init_css_set and dropping the + * old one. */ - task_lock(tsk); + WARN_ON_ONCE(tsk->flags & PF_EXITING); oldcg = tsk->cgroups; get_css_set(oldcg); - task_unlock(tsk); /* locate or allocate a new css_set for this task. */ if (guarantee) {
@@ -1879,9 +1879,7 @@ static int cgroup_task_migrate(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cgroup *oldcgrp, } put_css_set(oldcg); - /* @tsk can't exit as its threadgroup is locked */ task_lock(tsk); - WARN_ON_ONCE(tsk->flags & PF_EXITING); rcu_assign_pointer(tsk->cgroups, newcg); task_unlock(tsk);
@@ -2182,11 +2180,13 @@ int cgroup_attach_proc(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *leader) /* nothing to do if this task is already in the cgroup */ if (tc->cgrp == cgrp) continue; - /* get old css_set pointer */ - task_lock(tc->task); + /* + * get old css_set pointer. threadgroup is locked so this is + * safe against concurrent cgroup_exit() changing this to + * init_css_set. + */ oldcg = tc->task->cgroups; get_css_set(oldcg); - task_unlock(tc->task); /* see if the new one for us is already in the list? */ if (css_set_check_fetched(cgrp, tc->task, oldcg, &newcg_list)) { /* was already there, nothing to do. */
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