On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 11:00:00AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 7e381b0eb1 ("cgroup: Drop task_lock(parent) on cgroup_fork()") removed
> task_lock from cgroup_fork citing that current->cgroups can't change
> due to threadgroup_change locking; however, threadgroup_change locking
> is used only during CLONE_THREAD forking. If @current is forking a
> new process, there's nothing preventing someone else to migrate the
> parent while forking is in progress and delete the css_set it
> currently is using. Am I confused somewhere?
Also, please note that task_lock is likely to be hot on local CPU at
that point and avoiding it there might not really buy much.
Thanks.
--
tejun
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