Re: [PATCH 08/23] cgroup: pass around cgroup_subsys_state instead of cgroup in subsystem methods

[Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 05:49:46PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> cgroup is currently in the process of transitioning to using struct
> cgroup_subsys_state * as the primary handle instead of struct cgroup *
> in subsystem implementations for the following reasons.
> 
> * With unified hierarchy, subsystems will be dynamically bound and
>   unbound from cgroups and thus css's (cgroup_subsys_state) may be
>   created and destroyed dynamically over the lifetime of a cgroup,
>   which is different from the current state where all css's are
>   allocated and destroyed together with the associated cgroup.  This
>   in turn means that cgroup_css() should be synchronized and may
>   return NULL, making it more cumbersome to use.
> 
> * Differing levels of per-subsystem granularity in the unified
>   hierarchy means that the task and descendant iterators should behave
>   differently depending on the specific subsystem the iteration is
>   being performed for.
> 
> * In majority of the cases, subsystems only care about its part in the
>   cgroup hierarchy - ie. the hierarchy of css's.  Subsystem methods
>   often obtain the matching css pointer from the cgroup and don't
>   bother with the cgroup pointer itself.  Passing around css fits
>   much better.
> 
> This patch converts all cgroup_subsys methods to take @css instead of
> @cgroup.  The conversions are mostly straight-forward.  A few
> noteworthy changes are
> 
> * ->css_alloc() now takes css of the parent cgroup rather than the
>   pointer to the new cgroup as the css for the new cgroup doesn't
>   exist yet.  Knowing the parent css is enough for all the existing
>   subsystems.
> 
> * In kernel/cgroup.c::offline_css(), unnecessary open coded css
>   dereference is replaced with local variable access.
> 
> This patch shouldn't cause any behavior differences.

looks fine on device_cgroup.c bit

Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>

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Aristeu