From 999cd8a450f8f93701669a61cac4d3b19eca07e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Menage Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:08:36 -0800 Subject: cgroups: add a per-subsystem hierarchy_mutex These patches introduce new locking/refcount support for cgroups to reduce the need for subsystems to call cgroup_lock(). This will ultimately allow the atomicity of cgroup_rmdir() (which was removed recently) to be restored. These three patches give: 1/3 - introduce a per-subsystem hierarchy_mutex which a subsystem can use to prevent changes to its own cgroup tree 2/3 - use hierarchy_mutex in place of calling cgroup_lock() in the memory controller 3/3 - introduce a css_tryget() function similar to the one recently proposed by Kamezawa, but avoiding spurious refcount failures in the event of a race between a css_tryget() and an unsuccessful cgroup_rmdir() Future patches will likely involve: - using hierarchy mutex in place of cgroup_lock() in more subsystems where appropriate - restoring the atomicity of cgroup_rmdir() with respect to cgroup_create() This patch: Add a hierarchy_mutex to the cgroup_subsys object that protects changes to the hierarchy observed by that subsystem. It is taken by the cgroup subsystem (in addition to cgroup_mutex) for the following operations: - linking a cgroup into that subsystem's cgroup tree - unlinking a cgroup from that subsystem's cgroup tree - moving the subsystem to/from a hierarchy (including across the bind() callback) Thus if the subsystem holds its own hierarchy_mutex, it can safely traverse its own hierarchy. Signed-off-by: Paul Menage Tested-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Balbir Singh Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/cgroup.h | 17 ++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux') diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h index 73d1c730c3c4..ce1c1f34c30c 100644 --- a/include/linux/cgroup.h +++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h @@ -340,8 +340,23 @@ struct cgroup_subsys { #define MAX_CGROUP_TYPE_NAMELEN 32 const char *name; - struct cgroupfs_root *root; + /* + * Protects sibling/children links of cgroups in this + * hierarchy, plus protects which hierarchy (or none) the + * subsystem is a part of (i.e. root/sibling). To avoid + * potential deadlocks, the following operations should not be + * undertaken while holding any hierarchy_mutex: + * + * - allocating memory + * - initiating hotplug events + */ + struct mutex hierarchy_mutex; + /* + * Link to parent, and list entry in parent's children. + * Protected by this->hierarchy_mutex and cgroup_lock() + */ + struct cgroupfs_root *root; struct list_head sibling; }; -- cgit v1.2.3