Hello, Prateek. On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 02:24:55PM +0530, Prateek Sood wrote: > Following are two ways to improve cgroup_transfer_tasks(). In > both cases task in PF_EXITING state would be left in source > cgroup. It would be removed from cgroup_exit() in exit path. > > diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c > index 024085d..e2bdcdb 100644 > --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c > +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c > @@ -123,7 +123,10 @@ int cgroup_transfer_tasks(struct cgroup *to, struct cgroup *from) > */ > do { > css_task_iter_start(&from->self, 0, &it); > - task = css_task_iter_next(&it); > + do { > + task = css_task_iter_next(&it); > + } while (task && (task & PF_EXITING)) > + Yeah, this looks good to me. We can't just make a single pass as in the other one because we can race aginst fork. And PF_EXITING being left behind is what was happening previously too anyway. They can't be moved. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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