Re: [PATCH] sched: fix another race when reading /proc/sched_debug

From: Li Zefan
Date: Sun Dec 14 2008 - 20:40:56 EST


Paul Menage wrote:
> I sent out some patches last week (search for hierarchy_mutex) that would
> mean that you'd only need to take a subsystem-local lock to keep a cgroup
> alive. People seemed to like them so I'll tweak them based on feedback and
> send them on to Andrew.
>

Unfortunately, AFAICS the proposed hierarchy_mutex can't solve this bug. :(

> Paul
>
> On Dec 14, 2008 4:48 AM, "Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 10:54 +0800, Li Zefan wrote: > > i merged it up in
> tip/master, could you pleas...
> Can't we detect a dead task-group and skip those instead of adding this
> global lock?
>
>> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > kernel/sched_fair.c
> | 6 ++++++ > kerne...
>

--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/