Re: [PATCH 7/8] cgroups: Add a task counter subsystem

Oleg Nesterov
2011-08-09T18:23:09Z

On 08/09, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>
> On Tue, Aug 09, 2011 at 07:57:08PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > > cgroup_attach_proc() is different, it calls cgroup_task_migrate()
> > > > after ->attach_task(). Cough.
> > >
> > > That's bad. I need to fix that.
> > >
> > > So if it returns -ESRCH, I shall not call attach_task() on it
> > > but cancel_attach_task().
> >
> > Afaics this can't help, or I misunderstood. probably attach_task()
> > can check PF_EXITING...
>
> But cgroup_task_migrate() checks that already before migrating
> cgroups (checks PF_EXITING under task_lock() so that it's
> synchronized against cgroup_exit())

Yes, but how this can help?

->attach_task() is called before cgroup_task_migrate(). Suppose
that it exits before ->attach_task(). In this case we shouldn't
uncharge the old cgroup, it was already uncharged by cgroup_exit.

Oleg.