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authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>2009-04-02 16:57:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-02 19:04:54 -0700
commitec64f51545fffbc4cb968f0cea56341a4b07e85a (patch)
tree575d890a6759d81f3324fa2a22ca6ab14a41eefc /include/linux
parent38460b48d06440de46b34cb778bd6c4855030754 (diff)
cgroup: fix frequent -EBUSY at rmdir
In following situation, with memory subsystem, /groupA use_hierarchy==1 /01 some tasks /02 some tasks /03 some tasks /04 empty When tasks under 01/02/03 hit limit on /groupA, hierarchical reclaim is triggered and the kernel walks tree under groupA. In this case, rmdir /groupA/04 fails with -EBUSY frequently because of temporal refcnt from the kernel. In general. cgroup can be rmdir'd if there are no children groups and no tasks. Frequent fails of rmdir() is not useful to users. (And the reason for -EBUSY is unknown to users.....in most cases) This patch tries to modify above behavior, by - retries if css_refcnt is got by someone. - add "return value" to pre_destroy() and allows subsystem to say "we're really busy!" Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/cgroup.h6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index 9a23bb09820..7d824b80b3d 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -135,6 +135,10 @@ enum {
CGRP_RELEASABLE,
/* Control Group requires release notifications to userspace */
CGRP_NOTIFY_ON_RELEASE,
+ /*
+ * A thread in rmdir() is wating for this cgroup.
+ */
+ CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR,
};
struct cgroup {
@@ -360,7 +364,7 @@ int cgroup_is_descendant(const struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *task);
struct cgroup_subsys {
struct cgroup_subsys_state *(*create)(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
struct cgroup *cgrp);
- void (*pre_destroy)(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp);
+ int (*pre_destroy)(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp);
void (*destroy)(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cgrp);
int (*can_attach)(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *tsk);