Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Oct 2019 08:41:36 -0700 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cgroup: pids: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE for pids->limit operations |
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On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 12:05:39PM +1100, Aleksa Sarai wrote: > Because pids->limit can be changed concurrently (but we don't want to > take a lock because it would be needlessly expensive), use the > appropriate memory barriers.
I can't quite tell what problem it's fixing. Can you elaborate a scenario where the current code would break that your patch fixes?
Thanks.
-- tejun
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