cgroups: change css_set freeing mechanism to be under RCU
authorBen Blum <bblum@google.com>
Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:56:29 +0000 (15:56 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:20:58 +0000 (07:20 -0700)
commitc378369d8b4fa516ff2b1e79c3eded4e0e955ebb
tree33dff6fa14c5b70cf25368b1bde57e5610a308b3
parentd1d9fd3308fdef6b4bf564fa3d6cfe35b68b50bc
cgroups: change css_set freeing mechanism to be under RCU

Changes css_set freeing mechanism to be under RCU

This is a prepatch for making the procs file writable. In order to free the
old css_sets for each task to be moved as they're being moved, the freeing
mechanism must be RCU-protected, or else we would have to have a call to
synchronize_rcu() for each task before freeing its old css_set.

Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <bblum@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.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