Re: [PATCH 2/2 v3] cgroup: Drop task_lock(parent) on cgroup_fork()

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On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 08:03:19PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> We don't need to hold the parent task_lock() on the
> parent in cgroup_fork() because we are already synchronized
> against the two places that may change the parent css_set
> concurrently:
> 
> - cgroup_exit(), but the parent obviously can't exit concurrently
> - cgroup migration: we are synchronized against threadgroup_lock()
> 
> So we can safely remove the task_lock() there.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Containers <containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Cgroups <cgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Menage <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied both patches to cgroup/for-3.3 and pushed out to linux-next.

Thank you.

-- 
tejun
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