Re: [PATCH v8 4/3] cgroups: use flex_array in attach_proc

[Paul Menage]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Ben Blum <bblum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Convert cgroup_attach_proc to use flex_array.
>
> From: Ben Blum <bblum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The cgroup_attach_proc implementation requires a pre-allocated array to store
> task pointers to atomically move a thread-group, but asking for a monolithic
> array with kmalloc() may be unreliable for very large groups. Using flex_array
> provides the same functionality with less risk of failure.
>
> This is a post-patch for cgroup-procs-write.patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks fine from a correctness point of view, but I'd be inclined to
reduce the verbosity - rather than

tsk = flex_array_get_ptr(group, i);
BUG_ON(tsk == NULL);
retval = ss->can_attach_task(cgrp, tsk);

I'd just have

retval = ss->can_attach_task(cgrp, flex_array_get_ptr(group, i));

I don't think you need to be so defensive about flex_array's behaviour.

Paul
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