On Wed 31-10-12 10:04:31, Tejun Heo wrote:

Hey, Michal.

On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 04:55:14PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:

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+	/*
+	 * Only live parents can have children.  Note that the liveliness
+	 * check isn't strictly necessary because cgroup_mkdir() and
+	 * cgroup_rmdir() are fully synchronized by i_mutex; however, do it
+	 * anyway so that locking is contained inside cgroup proper and we
+	 * don't get nasty surprises if we ever grow another caller.
+	 */
+	if (!cgroup_lock_live_group(parent)) {
+		err = -ENODEV;
+		goto err_free;
+	}
+

I think this should be moved up before we try to allocate any memory.
Or is your motivation to keep cgroup_lock held for shorter time?
I could agree with that but a small comment would be helpful.

Then I have to change the error out path more and I'm not sure I wanna
call deactivate_super() under cgroup_mutex.  It's just simpler this
way.

I am not sure I understand. What does deactivate_super has to do with
the above suggestion? cgroup_lock_live_group will take the cgroup_mutex
on the success or frees the previously allocated&unused memory. The
only thing I was suggesting is to do cgroup_lock_live_group first and
allocate the cgroup only if it doesn't fail.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs