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authorMichal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>2019-10-04 12:57:39 +0200
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2019-10-07 07:11:53 -0700
commite7c7b1d85dc1646c874096dac3cf01537c1fd6f1 (patch)
treeb0c6cb80028da8b2485e58f011df073f752e29d8 /kernel/cgroup
parent61e867fde21ea94f2166899f24f16cad85cc7b24 (diff)
downloadlinux-e7c7b1d85dc1646c874096dac3cf01537c1fd6f1.tar.bz2
cgroup: Update comments about task exit path
We no longer take cgroup_mutex in cgroup_exit and the exiting tasks are not moved to init_css_set, reflect that in several comments to prevent confusion. Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cgroup')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c29
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
index f6cba23290a1..01fc24aeac71 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
@@ -899,8 +899,7 @@ static void css_set_move_task(struct task_struct *task,
/*
* We are synchronized through cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem
* against PF_EXITING setting such that we can't race
- * against cgroup_exit() changing the css_set to
- * init_css_set and dropping the old one.
+ * against cgroup_exit()/cgroup_free() dropping the css_set.
*/
WARN_ON_ONCE(task->flags & PF_EXITING);
@@ -1432,9 +1431,8 @@ struct cgroup *task_cgroup_from_root(struct task_struct *task,
struct cgroup_root *root)
{
/*
- * No need to lock the task - since we hold cgroup_mutex the
- * task can't change groups, so the only thing that can happen
- * is that it exits and its css is set back to init_css_set.
+ * No need to lock the task - since we hold css_set_lock the
+ * task can't change groups.
*/
return cset_cgroup_from_root(task_css_set(task), root);
}
@@ -6030,7 +6028,7 @@ void cgroup_post_fork(struct task_struct *child)
struct css_set *cset;
spin_lock_irq(&css_set_lock);
- cset = task_css_set(current);
+ cset = task_css_set(current); /* current is @child's parent */
if (list_empty(&child->cg_list)) {
get_css_set(cset);
cset->nr_tasks++;
@@ -6073,20 +6071,8 @@ void cgroup_post_fork(struct task_struct *child)
* cgroup_exit - detach cgroup from exiting task
* @tsk: pointer to task_struct of exiting process
*
- * Description: Detach cgroup from @tsk and release it.
- *
- * Note that cgroups marked notify_on_release force every task in
- * them to take the global cgroup_mutex mutex when exiting.
- * This could impact scaling on very large systems. Be reluctant to
- * use notify_on_release cgroups where very high task exit scaling
- * is required on large systems.
+ * Description: Detach cgroup from @tsk.
*
- * We set the exiting tasks cgroup to the root cgroup (top_cgroup). We
- * call cgroup_exit() while the task is still competent to handle
- * notify_on_release(), then leave the task attached to the root cgroup in
- * each hierarchy for the remainder of its exit. No need to bother with
- * init_css_set refcnting. init_css_set never goes away and we can't race
- * with migration path - PF_EXITING is visible to migration path.
*/
void cgroup_exit(struct task_struct *tsk)
{
@@ -6096,7 +6082,8 @@ void cgroup_exit(struct task_struct *tsk)
/*
* Unlink from @tsk from its css_set. As migration path can't race
- * with us, we can check css_set and cg_list without synchronization.
+ * with us (thanks to cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem), we can check css_set
+ * and cg_list without synchronization.
*/
cset = task_css_set(tsk);
@@ -6112,6 +6099,8 @@ void cgroup_exit(struct task_struct *tsk)
spin_unlock_irq(&css_set_lock);
} else {
+ /* Take reference to avoid freeing init_css_set in cgroup_free,
+ * see cgroup_fork(). */
get_css_set(cset);
}