From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755336AbYKUIx0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:53:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752822AbYKUIwg (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:52:36 -0500 Received: from cn.fujitsu.com ([222.73.24.84]:56570 "EHLO song.cn.fujitsu.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752792AbYKUIwg (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:52:36 -0500 Message-ID: <49267618.6080802@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:49:28 +0800 From: Lai Jiangshan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton , Paul Menage , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Containers Subject: [PATCH] cgroups: don't put struct cgroupfs_root protected by RCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org we don't access struct cgroupfs_root in fast path, so we should not put struct cgroupfs_root protected by RCU but the comment in struct cgroup_subsys.root confuse us. struct cgroup_subsys.root is used in these places: 1 find_css_set(): if (ss->root->subsys_list.next == &ss->sibling) 2 rebind_subsystems(): if (ss->root != &rootnode) rcu_assign_pointer(ss->root, root); rcu_assign_pointer(subsys[i]->root, &rootnode); 3 cgroup_has_css_refs(): if (ss->root != cgrp->root) 4 cgroup_init_subsys(): ss->root = &rootnode; 5 proc_cgroupstats_show(): ss->name, ss->root->subsys_bits, ss->root->number_of_cgroups, !ss->disabled); 6 cgroup_clone(): root = subsys->root; if ((root != subsys->root) || all these place we have held cgroup_lock() or we don't dereference to struct cgroupfs_root. It's means wo don't need RCU when use struct cgroup_subsys.root, and we should not put struct cgroupfs_root protected by RCU. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan --- diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h index 1164963..22901ff 100644 --- a/include/linux/cgroup.h +++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h @@ -343,7 +345,6 @@ struct cgroup_subsys { #define MAX_CGROUP_TYPE_NAMELEN 32 const char *name; - /* Protected by RCU */ struct cgroupfs_root *root; struct list_head sibling; diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 358e775..ddc10ac 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -717,7 +722,7 @@ static int rebind_subsystems(struct cgroupfs_root *root, cgrp->subsys[i] = dummytop->subsys[i]; cgrp->subsys[i]->cgroup = cgrp; list_add(&ss->sibling, &root->subsys_list); - rcu_assign_pointer(ss->root, root); + ss->root = root; if (ss->bind) ss->bind(ss, cgrp); @@ -729,7 +734,7 @@ static int rebind_subsystems(struct cgroupfs_root *root, ss->bind(ss, dummytop); dummytop->subsys[i]->cgroup = dummytop; cgrp->subsys[i] = NULL; - rcu_assign_pointer(subsys[i]->root, &rootnode); + subsys[i]->root = &rootnode; list_del(&ss->sibling); } else if (bit & final_bits) { /* Subsystem state should already exist */