Re: [PATCH 14/14] cgroup: add cgroup_subsys->free() method and use it to fix pids controller

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Hello,

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 09:29:14PM +1100, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> > pids controller is completely broken in that it uncharges when a task
> > exits allowing zombies to escape resource control.  With the recent
> > updates, cgroup core now maintains cgroup association till task free
> > and pids controller can be fixed by uncharging on free instead of
> > exit.
> 
> Looks good to me. Out of interest, is there any reason why we still
> have ->exit(), given the zombie process edge case? Surely the zombie
> process edge case would cause issues with kmemcg and similar
> controllers, if they use ->exit() and not ->free()?

No, pids was the only broken one.  ->exit() is no longer used but
let's see how it goes for a while before getting rid of it.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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