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authorBen Blum <[email protected]>2009-09-23 15:56:29 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>2009-09-24 07:20:58 -0700
commitc378369d8b4fa516ff2b1e79c3eded4e0e955ebb (patch)
tree33dff6fa14c5b70cf25368b1bde57e5610a308b3 /include
parentd1d9fd3308fdef6b4bf564fa3d6cfe35b68b50bc (diff)
cgroups: change css_set freeing mechanism to be under RCU
Changes css_set freeing mechanism to be under RCU This is a prepatch for making the procs file writable. In order to free the old css_sets for each task to be moved as they're being moved, the freeing mechanism must be RCU-protected, or else we would have to have a call to synchronize_rcu() for each task before freeing its old css_set. Signed-off-by: Ben Blum <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <[email protected]> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]> Acked-by: Li Zefan <[email protected]> Cc: Matt Helsley <[email protected]> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/cgroup.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index 88e863460726..3ac78a2f4b5a 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -260,6 +260,9 @@ struct css_set {
* during subsystem registration (at boot time).
*/
struct cgroup_subsys_state *subsys[CGROUP_SUBSYS_COUNT];
+
+ /* For RCU-protected deletion */
+ struct rcu_head rcu_head;
};
/*