From 068b38c1fa7a9210608f27ac521897ccc5f9b726 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Li Zefan Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:51:26 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] memcg: fix a race when setting memory.swappiness (suppose: memcg->use_hierarchy == 0 and memcg->swappiness == 60) echo 10 > /memcg/0/swappiness | mem_cgroup_swappiness_write() | ... | echo 1 > /memcg/0/use_hierarchy | mkdir /mnt/0/1 | sub_memcg->swappiness = 60; memcg->swappiness = 10; | In the above scenario, we end up having 2 different swappiness values in a single hierarchy. We should hold cgroup_lock() when cheking cgrp->children list. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Paul Menage Cc: Daisuke Nishimura Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed