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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2011-12-23 04:25:23 +0100
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2011-12-27 09:05:20 -0800
commit7e3aa30ac8c904a706518b725c451bb486daaae9 (patch)
tree1a6ad0678271d1cba5eba2fcafcbfa71b4e4c66d /kernel
parentc6ca57500c23d57a4ccec9874b6a3c99c297e1b5 (diff)
cgroup: Remove task_lock() from cgroup_post_fork()
cgroup_post_fork() is protected between threadgroup_change_begin() and threadgroup_change_end() against concurrent changes of the child's css_set in cgroup_task_migrate(). Also the child can't exit and call cgroup_exit() at this stage, this means it's css_set can't be changed with init_css_set concurrently. For these reasons, we don't need to hold task_lock() on the child because it's css_set can only remain stable in this place. Let's remove the lock there. v2: Update comment to explain that we are safe against cgroup_exit() Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org> Cc: Cgroups <cgroups@vger.kernel.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org> Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup.c15
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index c6bd67b3fcf..548d8d4e86d 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -4595,10 +4595,19 @@ void cgroup_post_fork(struct task_struct *child)
{
if (use_task_css_set_links) {
write_lock(&css_set_lock);
- task_lock(child);
- if (list_empty(&child->cg_list))
+ if (list_empty(&child->cg_list)) {
+ /*
+ * It's safe to use child->cgroups without task_lock()
+ * here because we are protected through
+ * threadgroup_change_begin() against concurrent
+ * css_set change in cgroup_task_migrate(). Also
+ * the task can't exit at that point until
+ * wake_up_new_task() is called, so we are protected
+ * against cgroup_exit() setting child->cgroup to
+ * init_css_set.
+ */
list_add(&child->cg_list, &child->cgroups->tasks);
- task_unlock(child);
+ }
write_unlock(&css_set_lock);
}
}