Re: [PATCH] cgroup: remove redundate get/put of old css_set frommigrate

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Sun Dec 18 2011 - 21:01:56 EST


On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 08:38:31AM -0800, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:
> We can now assume that the css_set reference held by the task
> will not go away for an exiting task. PF_EXITING state can be
> trusted throughout migration by checking it after locking
> threadgroup.
>
> This patch depends on:
>
> commit cd3d095275374220921fcf0d4e0c16584b26ddbc
> Author: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon Dec 12 18:12:21 2011 -0800
>
> cgroup: always lock threadgroup during migration
>
> Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: cgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/cgroup.c | 25 ++++++-------------------
> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
> index 1b3b841..eb95e32 100644
> --- a/kernel/cgroup.c
> +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
> @@ -1856,7 +1856,6 @@ static int cgroup_task_migrate(struct cgroup *cgrp, struct cgroup *oldcgrp,
> */
> task_lock(tsk);
> oldcg = tsk->cgroups;
> - get_css_set(oldcg);
> task_unlock(tsk);

Seems we don't need these task_lock() anymore. I'm cooking a patch to clean that up.
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