On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 03:21:34PM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> cgroup_transfer_tasks() can currently fail in the middle due to memory
> allocation failure. When that happens, the function just aborts and
> returns error code and there's no way to tell how many actually got
> migrated at the point of failure and or to revert the partial
> migration.
>
> Update it to use cgroup_migrate{_add_src|prepare_dst|migrate|finish}()
> so that the function either succeeds or fails as a whole as long as
> ->can_attach() doesn't fail.
While this solves one aspect of the problem, it may still race with
fork and may leave newly forked tasks behind. I'll think more about
it.
Thanks.
--
tejun
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