Re: [PATCH 5/6] Makes procs file writable to move all threads bytgid at once

[Louis Rilling]

On 24/07/09 14:57 -0700, Paul Menage wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Benjamin Blum<bblum@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> I don't see how css_sets are guaranteed while cgroup_fork_mutex is not held and
> >> thus does not prevent new threads from being created right now. Could you
> >> elaborate on that?
> >
> > Prefetching the css sets is independent of the fork lock/race issue.
> > The idea is that we build a list, kept locally, that has references on
> > all the css_sets we'll need to migrate each thread to the new cgroup.
> > Since ordinarily we might need to malloc a new css_set for a thread
> > before moving it, and it's possible that that could fail, we need to
> > do allocations for all threads to be moved before committing any of
> > them. As long as we have the list of prefetched css_sets, they'll stay
> > there, and at the end, we drop the extra references we took on them to
> > make that guarantee when tearing down the list.
> 
> And more specifically, since only the holder of cgroup_mutex can move
> a thread to a new cgroup (and hence a potentially new unique css_set),
> we know that once we've run through all the threads in the
> thread_group and verified that we have the appropriate pre-fetched
> css_set objects for all of them, it doesn't matter if any new threads
> are created - they'll share one of the pre-fetched css_sets.

css_set sharing is the bit I was missing. Thanks!

Louis

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