cgroup: add cgroup_root_mutex
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:12:21 +0000 (18:12 -0800)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:12:21 +0000 (18:12 -0800)
cgroup wants to make threadgroup stable while modifying cgroup
hierarchies which will introduce locking dependency on
cred_guard_mutex from cgroup_mutex.  This unfortunately completes
circular dependency.

 A. cgroup_mutex -> cred_guard_mutex -> s_type->i_mutex_key -> namespace_sem
 B. namespace_sem -> cgroup_mutex

B is from cgroup_show_options() and this patch breaks it by
introducing another mutex cgroup_root_mutex which nests inside
cgroup_mutex and protects cgroupfs_root.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

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