cgroups: don't put struct cgroupfs_root protected by RCU
authorLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:07:37 +0000 (18:07 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:31:02 +0000 (08:31 -0800)
commitb2aa30f7bb381e04c93eed106089ba55553955f1
treeeda632102a0bc6e325a24e77a9c2819eab5aeef3
parent2019f634ce5904c19eba4e86f51b1a119a53a9f1
cgroups: don't put struct cgroupfs_root protected by RCU

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 <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/cgroup.h
kernel/cgroup.c