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Commit 41c25707 authored by Tejun Heo's avatar Tejun Heo
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cpuset: consider dying css as offline



In most cases, a cgroup controller don't care about the liftimes of
cgroups.  For the controller, a css becomes online when ->css_online()
is called on it and offline when ->css_offline() is called.

However, cpuset is special in that the user interface it exposes cares
whether certain cgroups exist or not.  Combined with the RCU delay
between cgroup removal and css offlining, this can lead to user
visible behavior oddities where operations which should succeed after
cgroup removals fail for some time period.  The effects of cgroup
removals are delayed when seen from userland.

This patch adds css_is_dying() which tests whether offline is pending
and updates is_cpuset_online() so that the function returns false also
while offline is pending.  This gets rid of the userland visible
delays.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: default avatarDaniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/327ca1f5-7957-fbb9-9e5f-9ba149d40ba2@oracle.com


Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
parent 33c35aa4
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