Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:15:07 -0700 | | From | Tejun Heo <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 06/10] cgroup: convert memcg controller to the new cftype interface |
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Hey,
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 02:43:14PM +0400, Glauber Costa wrote: > I am still in the middle of the review. Is it possible to dynamically > register entries? (right now, I mean)
Before the patchset, no. After the patchset, yes.
> If yes - which seems to be a bit of the point of the exercise, so it > should be totally okay from my PoV. I have that call in populate because > which files will be created depends on which protocols you have registered. > > The trick here, is that doesn't need to happen at all cgroup creations. > But it can't happen at root's either, because this is quite fragile: > some protocols may only be registered after root memcg is created.
Yeah, it can happen anytime but it shouldn't be called from ->create() or other callbacks which are invoked under cgroup_mutex. We can provide an alternative interface or other locking trickery to avoid this, but I don't think I'll take that path unless there are very strong rationale.
Thanks.
-- tejun
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