[PATCH 5/8] cgroup: remove CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR, cgroup_exclude_rmdir() and cgroup_release_and_wakeup_rmdir()

Li Zefan lizefan at huawei.com
Mon Nov 5 05:40:05 UTC 2012


On 2012/11/1 3:44, Tejun Heo wrote:
> CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR is another kludge which was added to make cgroup
> destruction rollback somewhat working.  cgroup_rmdir() used to drain
> CSS references and CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR and the associated waitqueue and
> helpers were used to allow the task performing rmdir to wait for the
> next relevant event.
> 
> Unfortunately, the wait is visible to controllers too and the
> mechanism got exposed to memcg by 887032670d ("cgroup avoid permanent
> sleep at rmdir").
> 
> Now that the draining and retries are gone, CGRP_WAIT_ON_RMDIR is
> unnecessary.  Remove it and all the mechanisms supporting it.  Note
> that memcontrol.c changes are essentially revert of 887032670d
> ("cgroup avoid permanent sleep at rmdir").
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko at suse.cz>
> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora at gmail.com>
> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu at jp.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  include/linux/cgroup.h | 21 ---------------------
>  kernel/cgroup.c        | 51 --------------------------------------------------
>  mm/memcontrol.c        | 24 +-----------------------
>  3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 95 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan at huawei.com>



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