Re: [PATCH 4/4] cgroup: remove extra calls to find_existing_css_set
From: Frederic Weisbecker <hidden>
Date: 2011-12-22 09:44:48
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On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 01:50:46PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
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@@ -2091,6 +2010,10 @@ int cgroup_attach_proc(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *leader) * rcu or tasklist locked. instead, build an array of all threads in the * group - group_rwsem prevents new threads from appearing, and if * threads exit, this will just be an over-estimate. + * + * While creating the list, also make sure css_sets exist for all + * threads to be migrated. we use find_css_set, which allocates a new + * one if necessary. */ group_size = get_nr_threads(leader); /* flex_array supports very large thread-groups better than kmalloc. */@@ -2137,6 +2060,12 @@ int cgroup_attach_proc(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *leader) /* nothing to do if this task is already in the cgroup */ if (ent.cgrp == cgrp) continue; + ent.cg = find_css_set(tsk->cgroups, cgrp);unfortunately This won't work, because we are holding tasklist_lock.
I believe we can remove tasklist_lock now (in a seperate patch). It was there in order to protect while_each_thread() against exec but now we have threadgroup_lock(). I think we only need to use rcu_read_lock() to protect against concurrent removal in exit.
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+ if (!ent.cg) { + retval = -ENOMEM; + group_size = i; + goto out_list_teardown; + } retval = flex_array_put(group, i, &ent, GFP_ATOMIC); BUG_ON(retval != 0); i++;