The patch titled debug cgroup: remove unneeded cgroup_lock has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is debug-cgroup-remove-unneeded-cgroup_lock.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: debug cgroup: remove unneeded cgroup_lock From: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Since we are in cgroup write handler, so the cgrp is valid, so we don't have to hold cgroup_mutex when calling cgroup_task_count(). One similar example is in cgroup_tasks_open(). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cgroup_debug.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff -puN kernel/cgroup_debug.c~debug-cgroup-remove-unneeded-cgroup_lock kernel/cgroup_debug.c --- a/kernel/cgroup_debug.c~debug-cgroup-remove-unneeded-cgroup_lock +++ a/kernel/cgroup_debug.c @@ -40,9 +40,7 @@ static u64 taskcount_read(struct cgroup { u64 count; - cgroup_lock(); count = cgroup_task_count(cont); - cgroup_unlock(); return count; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are vfs-add-missing-unlock-in-sget.patch linux-next.patch cls_cgroup-remove-unneeded-cgroup_lock.patch memdup_user-introduce.patch memdup_user-introduce-fix.patch relax-ns_can_attach-checks-to-allow-attaching-to-grandchild-cgroups.patch cgroup-css-id-support.patch cgroup-css-id-support-remove-rcu_read_lock-from-css_get_next.patch cgroup-fix-frequent-ebusy-at-rmdir.patch cgroups-more-documentation-for-remount-and-release_agent.patch cgroups-show-correct-file-mode.patch cgroups-show-correct-file-mode-fix.patch cgroups-dont-change-release_agent-when-remount-failed.patch debug-cgroup-remove-unneeded-cgroup_lock.patch memcg-use-css-id.patch memcg-hierarchical-stat.patch memcg-fix-shrinking-memory-to-return-ebusy-by-fixing-retry-algorithm.patch memcg-fix-oom-killer-under-memcg.patch memcg-fix-oom-killer-under-memcg-fix2.patch memcg-fix-oom-killer-under-memcg-fix.patch memcg-show-memcg-information-during-oom.patch memcg-show-memcg-information-during-oom-fix2.patch memcg-show-memcg-information-during-oom-fix.patch memcg-show-memcg-information-during-oom-fix-fix.patch memcg-show-memcg-information-during-oom-fix-fix-checkpatch-fixes.patch memcg-charge-swapcache-to-proper-memcg.patch cgroups-use-css-id-in-swap-cgroup-for-saving-memory-v5.patch memory-controller-soft-limit-documentation-v5.patch memory-controller-soft-limit-interface-v5.patch memory-controller-soft-limit-organize-cgroups-v5.patch memory-controller-soft-limit-reclaim-on-contention-v5.patch cpuset-fix-possible-races-in-cpu-memory-hotplug.patch cgroups-add-data-field-to-struct-cgroup_scanner.patch cpuset-rewrite-update_tasks_nodemask.patch cpuset-avoid-changing-cpusets-mems-when-errno-returned.patch cpuset-remove-struct-cpuset_hotplug_scanner.patch cpusets-allow-cpusets-to-be-configured-built-on-non-smp-systems.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html