Re: [PATCH] cfq: Remove useless css reference get

[Li Zefan]

ä 2009å12æ17æ 00:39, Vivek Goyal åé:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 04:38:43PM +0800, Gui Jianfeng wrote:
>> There's no need to take css reference here, for the caller
>> has already called rcu_read_lock() to prevent cgroup from 
>> being removed.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Gui Jianfeng <guijianfeng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Hi Gui,
> 
> How would an rcu lock protect against the possibility that blkiocg_destroy()
> has not already been called on another cpu? rcu lock will make sure that
> cgroup and blkio_cgroup object should still be around as long as I am
> holding rcu lock but will not protect against deletion path being executed
> on another cpu? So I don't want to end up in following situation.
> 
>      cpu1                      cpu2
> 
> rcu_read_lock()
> 			      blkiocg_destroy()
> 
> blkiocg_add_blkio_group()
> rcu_read_unlock()
> 
> I don't want to add blkg object on a potentially dead blkio_cgroup object
> which will go away. Does this protection is provided by generic cgroup
> code where blkiocg_destroy() will not be called if I have got cgroup
> pointer under rcu lock?
> 
> Currently we are deriving cgroup information from task context so task is
> still inside cgroup, so cgroup can't be deleted anyway. What if I was 
> deriving cgroup information from bio, will taking css object reference be
> necessary in that case or just cgroup pointer under rcu lock is sufficient
> to preclude the race against cgroup deletion path?
> 

We pass a cgroup ptr to cfq_find_alloc_cfqg(), which means the cgroup is
valid. As long as it's safe to access the cgroup, it's safe to access the
corresponding blkio_cgroup.

But if you still want blkio_cgroup to be valid after dropping rcu_read_lock
(or cgroup_mutex), you need to call css_get() first. Note you don't need
to call css_tryget(). css_tryget() is only needed in mem_cgroup, because
mem_cgroup is a bit special, in that a mem_cgroup can remain valid after
a cgroup is destroyed.

If a user tries to rmdir a cgroup when its css refcnt > 0, EBUSY will be
returned.

--
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/