From: Tejun Heo Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 16:52:47 +0000 (-0500) Subject: cgroup: introduce cgroup_tree_mutex X-Git-Tag: v3.15-rc1~109^2~67 X-Git-Url: https://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ace2bee8135a3dc725958b8d08c55ee9df813d39;p=pandora-kernel.git cgroup: introduce cgroup_tree_mutex Currently cgroup uses combination of inode->i_mutex'es and cgroup_mutex for synchronization. With the scheduled kernfs conversion, i_mutex'es will be removed. Unfortunately, just using cgroup_mutex isn't possible. All kernfs file and syscall operations, most of which require grabbing cgroup_mutex, will be called with kernfs active ref held and, if we try to perform kernfs removals under cgroup_mutex, it can deadlock as kernfs_remove() tries to drain the target node. Let's introduce a new outer mutex, cgroup_tree_mutex, which protects stuff used during hierarchy changing operations - cftypes and all the operations which may affect the cgroupfs. It also covers css association and iteration. This allows cgroup_css(), for_each_css() and other css iterators to be called under cgroup_tree_mutex. The new mutex will nest above both kernfs's active ref protection and cgroup_mutex. By protecting tree modifications with a separate outer mutex, we can get rid of the forementioned deadlock condition. Actual file additions and removals now require cgroup_tree_mutex instead of cgroup_mutex. Currently, cgroup_tree_mutex is never used without cgroup_mutex; however, we'll soon add hierarchy modification sections which are only protected by cgroup_tree_mutex. In the future, we might want to make the locking more granular by better splitting the coverages of the two mutexes. For now, this should do. v2: Rebased on top of 0ab02ca8f887 ("cgroup: protect modifications to cgroup_idr with cgroup_mutex"). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Li Zefan --- Reading git-diff-tree failed