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Commit aa226ff4 authored by Tejun Heo's avatar Tejun Heo
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cgroup: make sure a parent css isn't offlined before its children



There are three subsystem callbacks in css shutdown path -
css_offline(), css_released() and css_free().  Except for
css_released(), cgroup core didn't guarantee the order of invocation.
css_offline() or css_free() could be called on a parent css before its
children.  This behavior is unexpected and led to bugs in cpu and
memory controller.

This patch updates offline path so that a parent css is never offlined
before its children.  Each css keeps online_cnt which reaches zero iff
itself and all its children are offline and offline_css() is invoked
only after online_cnt reaches zero.

This fixes the memory controller bug and allows the fix for cpu
controller.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reported-by: default avatarBrian Christiansen <brian.o.christiansen@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/5698A023.9070703@de.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/CAKB58ikDkzc8REt31WBkD99+hxNzjK4+FBmhkgS+NVrC9vjMSg@mail.gmail.com
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
parent e93ad19d
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