]> git.karo-electronics.de Git - linux-beck.git/commit
cgroup avoid permanent sleep at rmdir
authorKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:04:06 +0000 (15:04 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:10:35 +0000 (19:10 -0700)
commit887032670d47366a8c8f25396ea7c14b7b2cc620
treee5f9ece5ab9239648e8d7051ccb9a217d92553d7
parentf0d83679a8d471dc8b646919f70595d6fe8c9606
cgroup avoid permanent sleep at rmdir

After commit ec64f51545fffbc4cb968f0cea56341a4b07e85a ("cgroup: fix
frequent -EBUSY at rmdir"), cgroup's rmdir (especially against memcg)
doesn't return -EBUSY by temporary ref counts.  That commit expects all
refs after pre_destroy() is temporary but...it wasn't.  Then, rmdir can
wait permanently.  This patch tries to fix that and change followings.

 - set CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR flag before pre_destroy().
 - clear CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR flag when the subsys finds racy case.
   if there are sleeping ones, wakes them up.
 - rmdir() sleeps only when CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR flag is set.

Tested-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Reported-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Sigh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.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
mm/memcontrol.c