From 7e3aa30ac8c904a706518b725c451bb486daaae9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:25:23 +0100 Subject: cgroup: Remove task_lock() from cgroup_post_fork() cgroup_post_fork() is protected between threadgroup_change_begin() and threadgroup_change_end() against concurrent changes of the child's css_set in cgroup_task_migrate(). Also the child can't exit and call cgroup_exit() at this stage, this means it's css_set can't be changed with init_css_set concurrently. For these reasons, we don't need to hold task_lock() on the child because it's css_set can only remain stable in this place. Let's remove the lock there. v2: Update comment to explain that we are safe against cgroup_exit() Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Acked-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Containers Cc: Cgroups Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Paul Menage Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines --- kernel/cgroup.c | 15 ++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index c6bd67b3fcf6..548d8d4e86d0 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -4595,10 +4595,19 @@ void cgroup_post_fork(struct task_struct *child) { if (use_task_css_set_links) { write_lock(&css_set_lock); - task_lock(child); - if (list_empty(&child->cg_list)) + if (list_empty(&child->cg_list)) { + /* + * It's safe to use child->cgroups without task_lock() + * here because we are protected through + * threadgroup_change_begin() against concurrent + * css_set change in cgroup_task_migrate(). Also + * the task can't exit at that point until + * wake_up_new_task() is called, so we are protected + * against cgroup_exit() setting child->cgroup to + * init_css_set. + */ list_add(&child->cg_list, &child->cgroups->tasks); - task_unlock(child); + } write_unlock(&css_set_lock); } } -- cgit v1.2.3