On 2013/8/16 17:57, Li Zhong wrote: > It seems that the root css doesn't have refcnt allocated(not needed?), > and would cause the booting error attached. > > This patch tries to use css_get() to not increase the refcnt if parent > is root. ... > diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c > index 723194f..781f8cd 100644 > --- a/kernel/cgroup.c > +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c > @@ -4485,7 +4485,7 @@ static long cgroup_create(struct cgroup *parent, struct dentry *dentry, > struct cgroup_subsys_state *css = css_ar[ss->subsys_id]; > > dget(dentry); > - percpu_ref_get(&css->parent->refcnt); > + css_get(css->parent); We use css_put() to drop this refcnt, so it makes sense to use css_get() for consistency. Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html