From: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:34:32 +0400 > Walking the proto_list holds a read_lock, which prevents us from doing > allocations. Splitting the tcp create function into create + init is > good, but it is not enough since create_files will do allocations as well > (dentry ones, mostly). > > Since this does not involve any protocol state, I propose we call the tcp > functions explicitly from memcontrol.c > > With this, we lose by now the ability of doing cgroup memcontrol for > protocols that are loaded as modules. But at least the ones I have in mind > won't really need it (tcp_ipv6 being the only one, but it uses the same data > structures as tcp_ipv4). So I believe this to be the simpler solution to this > problem. > > Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> This is an unnecessary limitation, please fix this properly otherwise DCCP, SCTP, etc. won't be supportable with this stuff. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
