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SubjectRe: [PATCH 6/8] cgroup: remove cgroup->name
On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 06:59:43PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> cgroup->name handling became quite complicated over time involving
> dedicated struct cgroup_name for RCU protection. Now that cgroup is
> on kernfs, we can drop all of it and simply use kernfs_name/path() and
> friends. Replace cgroup->name and all related code with kernfs
> name/path constructs.
>
> * Reimplement cgroup_name() and cgroup_path() as thin wrappers on top
> of kernfs counterparts, which involves semantic changes.
> pr_cont_cgroup_name() and pr_cont_cgroup_path() added.
>
> * cgroup->name handling dropped from cgroup_rename().
>
> * All users of cgroup_name/path() updated to the new semantics. Users
> which were formatting the string just to printk them are converted
> to use pr_cont_cgroup_name/path() instead, which simplifies things
> quite a bit. As cgroup_name() no longer requires RCU read lock
> around it, RCU lockings which were protecting only cgroup_name() are
> removed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>



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