From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755425AbYKUJH0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:07:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752588AbYKUJHJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:07:09 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:33322 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752251AbYKUJHI (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:07:08 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:06:37 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Paul Menage , Linux Containers , Linux Kernel Mailing List , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Serge Hallyn Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] fix CGROUP VS RCU Message-Id: <20081121010637.0f71ffff.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <49267609.8050600@cn.fujitsu.com> References: <49267609.8050600@cn.fujitsu.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:49:13 +0800 Lai Jiangshan wrote: > > current some cgroup struct are protected by RCU. > > struct protected by RCU: > struct css_set, struct cgroup_subsys_state, struct cgroup > > pointer protected by RCU: > struct task_struct.cgroups, struct css_set.subsys[*], > struct cgroup_subsys_state.cgroup > the last two pointers are readonly pointer! > > these patches are fix these structs, and pointers. And a faker: > struct cgroup_subsys.root > > Not cleanup all yet. > These patches aren't sequence numbered. In what order should they be applied?