Re: [PATCH 3/4] cpuset: Fix unchecked calls to NODEMASK_ALLOC()

[David Rientjes]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2011, Li Zefan wrote:

> Unfortunately, as I looked into the code again I found cpuset_change_nodemask()
> is called by other functions that use the global cpuset_mems, so I
> think we'd better check the refcnt of cpuset_mems.
> 
> How about this:
> 
> [PATCH 3/4] cpuset: Fix unchecked calls to NODEMASK_ALLOC()
> 
> Those functions that use NODEMASK_ALLOC() can't propogate errno
> to users, so might fail silently.
> 
> Based on the fact that all of them are called with cgroup_mutex
> held, we fix this by using a global nodemask.
> 

If all of the functions that require a nodemask are protected by 
cgroup_mutex, then I think it would be much better to just statically 
allocate them within the function and avoid any nodemask in file scope.  
cpuset_mems cannot be shared so introducing it with a refcount would 
probably just be confusing.
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