From 7f0f15464185a92f9d8791ad231bcd7bf6df54e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 14:06:58 -0700 Subject: memcg: fix css_id() RCU locking for real Commit ad4ba375373937817404fd92239ef4cadbded23b ("memcg: css_id() must be called under rcu_read_lock()") modifies memcontol.c for fixing RCU check message. But Andrew Morton pointed out that the fix doesn't seems sane and it was just for hidining lockdep messages. This is a patch for do proper things. Checking again, all places, accessing without rcu_read_lock, that commit fixies was intentional.... all callers of css_id() has reference count on it. So, it's not necessary to be under rcu_read_lock(). Considering again, we can use rcu_dereference_check for css_id(). We know css->id is valid if css->refcnt > 0. (css->id never changes and freed after css->refcnt going to be 0.) This patch makes use of rcu_dereference_check() in css_id/depth and remove unnecessary rcu-read-lock added by the commit. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Cc: Daisuke Nishimura Cc: Balbir Singh Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/cgroup.c | 15 +++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/cgroup.c') diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c index 3a53c77..6db8b7f 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c @@ -4435,7 +4435,15 @@ __setup("cgroup_disable=", cgroup_disable); */ unsigned short css_id(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) { - struct css_id *cssid = rcu_dereference(css->id); + struct css_id *cssid; + + /* + * This css_id() can return correct value when somone has refcnt + * on this or this is under rcu_read_lock(). Once css->id is allocated, + * it's unchanged until freed. + */ + cssid = rcu_dereference_check(css->id, + rcu_read_lock_held() || atomic_read(&css->refcnt)); if (cssid) return cssid->id; @@ -4445,7 +4453,10 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(css_id); unsigned short css_depth(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) { - struct css_id *cssid = rcu_dereference(css->id); + struct css_id *cssid; + + cssid = rcu_dereference_check(css->id, + rcu_read_lock_held() || atomic_read(&css->refcnt)); if (cssid) return cssid->depth; -- cgit v1.1