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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/8] cgroup: kill cgroup_subsys->__DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs
(2012/11/01 5:24), Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 09:14:16PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> On Wed 31-10-12 13:11:02, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> wrote:
>>>> local_irq_disable doesn't guarantee atomicity, because other CPUs will
>>>
>>> Maybe it should say atomicity on the local CPU.
>>
>> That would be more clear but being more verbose doesn't hurt either :P
>>
>>>> see the change in steps so this is a bit misleading. The real reason
>>>> AFAICS is that we do not want to hang in css_tryget from IRQ context
>>>> (does this really happen btw.?) which would interrupt cgroup_rmdir
>>>> between we add CSS_DEACT_BIAS and the group is marked CGRP_REMOVED.
>>>> Or am I still missing the point?
>>>
>>> Yeah, that's the correct one. We don't want tryget happening between
>>> DEACT_BIAS and REMOVED as it can hang forever there.
>
> Here's the updated description. git branch updated accordingly.
>
> Thanks.
>
> From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Subject: cgroup: kill cgroup_subsys->__DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs
>
> 2ef37d3fe4 ("memcg: Simplify mem_cgroup_force_empty_list error
> handling") removed the last user of __DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs. This
> patch removes __DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs and mechanisms to support
> it.
>
> * Conditionals dependent on __DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs removed.
>
> * cgroup_clear_css_refs() can no longer fail. All that needs to be
> done are deactivating refcnts, setting CSS_REMOVED and putting the
> base reference on each css. Remove cgroup_clear_css_refs() and the
> failure path, and open-code the loops into cgroup_rmdir().
>
> This patch keeps the two for_each_subsys() loops separate while open
> coding them. They can be merged now but there are scheduled changes
> which need them to be separate, so keep them separate to reduce the
> amount of churn.
>
> local_irq_save/restore() from cgroup_clear_css_refs() are replaced
> with local_irq_disable/enable() for simplicity. This is safe as
> cgroup_rmdir() is always called with IRQ enabled. Note that this IRQ
> switching is necessary to ensure that css_tryget() isn't called from
> IRQ context on the same CPU while lower context is between CSS
> deactivation and setting CSS_REMOVED as css_tryget() would hang
> forever in such cases waiting for CSS to be re-activated or
> CSS_REMOVED set. This will go away soon.
>
> v2: cgroup_call_pre_destroy() removal dropped per Michal. Commit
> message updated to explain local_irq_disable/enable() conversion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>

I should see this v2 thread 1st...

Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>





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