Re: [PATCH] cgroup: pids: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE for pids->limit operations

[Tejun Heo]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 12:05:39PM +1100, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> Because pids->limit can be changed concurrently (but we don't want to
> take a lock because it would be needlessly expensive), use the
> appropriate memory barriers.

I can't quite tell what problem it's fixing.  Can you elaborate a
scenario where the current code would break that your patch fixes?

Thanks.

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tejun