[PATCH 1/2] cgroup: remove tasklist_lock from cgroup_attach_proc

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 02:26:55PM -0800, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote:
> @@ -2283,14 +2261,26 @@ static int attach_task_by_pid(struct cgroup *cgrp, u64 pid, bool threadgroup)
>  
>  	threadgroup_lock(tsk);
>  
> -	if (threadgroup)
> +	if (threadgroup) {
> +		if (!thread_group_leader(tsk)) {
> +			/*
> +			 * a race with de_thread from another thread's exec()
> +			 * may strip us of our leadership, if this happens,
> +			 * there is no choice but to throw this task away and
> +			 * try again (from cgroup_procs_write); this is
> +			 * "double-double-toil-and-trouble-check locking".
> +			 */
> +			ret = -EAGAIN;
> +			goto out_unlock_threadgroup;
> +		}
>  		ret = cgroup_attach_proc(cgrp, tsk);

Ummm... can't we just do tsk = tsk->leader after locking threadgroup?
Why do we need to retry from the beginning?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun