Re: [PATCH] fix spurious EBUSY on memory cgroup removal

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:47:13 +0900 (JST) yamamoto@valinux.co.jp (YAMAMOTO Takashi) wrote:

> [ resending with To: akpm.  Andrew, can you include this in -mm tree? ]

Shouldn't it be in 2.6.25?

> hi,
> 
> the following patch is to fix spurious EBUSY on cgroup removal.
> 
> YAMAMOTO Takashi
> 
> 
> call mm_free_cgroup earlier.
> otherwise a reference due to lazy mm switching can prevent cgroup removal.
> 
> Signed-off-by: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp>
> Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
> 
> --- linux-2.6.24-rc8-mm1/kernel/fork.c.BACKUP	2008-01-23 14:43:29.000000000 +0900
> +++ linux-2.6.24-rc8-mm1/kernel/fork.c	2008-01-31 17:26:31.000000000 +0900
> @@ -393,7 +393,6 @@ void __mmdrop(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  {
>  	BUG_ON(mm == &init_mm);
>  	mm_free_pgd(mm);
> -	mm_free_cgroup(mm);
>  	destroy_context(mm);
>  	free_mm(mm);
>  }
> @@ -415,6 +414,7 @@ void mmput(struct mm_struct *mm)
>  			spin_unlock(&mmlist_lock);
>  		}
>  		put_swap_token(mm);
> +		mm_free_cgroup(mm);
>  		mmdrop(mm);
>  	}
>  }

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