On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 09:05 +0800, Li Zefan wrote: > > > You are right in that taking task_lock() is sufficient (I forgot > this lock rule), but it's not true that whatever locks are held > in the ->attach method can pin a task's cgroup. Ah, can you be more specific about the ->attach() case? The way I read it, cgroup_attach_task(): for_each_subsys(root, ss) { if (ss->attach) ss->attach(ss, cgrp, oldcgrp, tsk, false); } set_bit(CGRP_RELEASABLE, &oldcgrp->flags); synchronize_rcu(); put_css_set(cg); So if you hold a lock that any of those ->attach() methods will use, it will in fact delay the put_css_set(). Ah, indeed I see your point, it doesn't indeed pin the task to the cgroup, but does avoid the cgroup from being freed. Hrmm,.. so anything wanting to really pin a task to its cgroup will have to use task_lock()? I'll have to see if that works for sched_setscheduler(). _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers