linux/kernel/sched
Li Zefan ace783b9bb sched: split out css_online/css_offline from tg creation/destruction
This is a preparaton for later patches.

- What do we gain from cpu_cgroup_css_online():

After ss->css_alloc() and before ss->css_online(), there's a small
window that tg->css.cgroup is NULL. With this change, tg won't be seen
before ss->css_online(), where it's added to the global list, so we're
guaranteed we'll never see NULL tg->css.cgroup.

- What do we gain from cpu_cgroup_css_offline():

tg is freed via RCU, so is cgroup. Without this change, This is how
synchronization works:

cgroup_rmdir()
  no ss->css_offline()
diput()
  syncornize_rcu()
  ss->css_free()       <-- unregister tg, and free it via call_rcu()
  kfree_rcu(cgroup)    <-- wait possible refs to cgroup, and free cgroup

We can't just kfree(cgroup), because tg might access tg->css.cgroup.

With this change:

cgroup_rmdir()
  ss->css_offline()    <-- unregister tg
diput()
  synchronize_rcu()    <-- wait possible refs to tg and cgroup
  ss->css_free()       <-- free tg
  kfree_rcu(cgroup)    <-- free cgroup

As you see, kfree_rcu() is redundant now.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-01-24 12:05:18 -08:00
..
auto_group.c sched: split out css_online/css_offline from tg creation/destruction 2013-01-24 12:05:18 -08:00
auto_group.h Revert "sched/autogroup: Fix crash on reboot when autogroup is disabled" 2012-12-11 10:23:45 +01:00
clock.c
core.c sched: split out css_online/css_offline from tg creation/destruction 2013-01-24 12:05:18 -08:00
cpupri.c sched: Fix minor code style issues 2012-07-26 11:47:00 +02:00
cpupri.h
cputime.c Some more cputime cleanups: 2012-12-08 15:44:43 +01:00
debug.c sched: Replace update_shares weight distribution with per-entity computation 2012-10-24 10:27:28 +02:00
fair.c sched: numa: ksm: fix oops in task_numa_placment() 2012-12-20 07:06:56 -08:00
features.h Automatic NUMA Balancing V11 2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
idle_task.c sched/nohz: Rewrite and fix load-avg computation -- again 2012-07-05 20:58:13 +02:00
Makefile sched: Move cputime code to its own file 2012-08-20 13:05:17 +02:00
rt.c sched: Remove __ARCH_WANT_INTERRUPTS_ON_CTXSW 2012-09-13 16:52:04 +02:00
sched.h Automatic NUMA Balancing V11 2012-12-16 15:18:08 -08:00
stats.c sched: Remove sched_switch 2012-01-27 13:28:53 +01:00
stats.h
stop_task.c sched: Fix migration thread runtime bogosity 2012-08-13 18:41:55 +02:00