Re: [patch] cgroups: disallow attaching kthreadd

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Thu Apr 05 2012 - 03:36:26 EST


On Wed, 2012-04-04 at 23:49 -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > > The last time we went through this, it was left after Andrew had fixed it
> > > up when the cpusets version was merged in -mm without any disagreement
> > > from Peter who was cc'd and that version was acked both by myself and Paul
> > > Menage at https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/12/14/402. Andrew dropped it and
> > > asked for a repost since there was some on-going scheduler work going on
> > > in linux-next that caused that version not to apply. No follow-up was
> > > ever offered.
> >
> > Hm, I thought I did that.
> >
>
> There's no reply from you to Andrew's email unless it was private.

Maybe I didn't, busy as hell happens a lot these days.

> > > Why have we now gone in a completely different direction again?
> >
> > I already said that after Peter griped and suggested global, I thought
> > about it, and liked that better.
>
> I think you're taking Peter's questions as a nack. He asked a question, I
> answered it. He didn't participate in the thread after October 20.
> Andrew's email to you asking for a new version is December 14 with these
> lines:
>
> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Paul Menage <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> He's been cc'd the whole time. Looking through the lengthy emails, he
> never actually nack'd _any_ version of this patch. He asked why not do it
> for all cgroups. That's it.

That question made perfect sense to me. Putting a global resource in
any bin of any sort makes little if any sense.

> I'm hoping you will take this bug more seriously.

Look, I merely reminded Tehun that the problem had never been resolved.
I was asked to post, and did that. Don't get upset with me for posting
the solution I like best. If I weren't taking the bug seriously enough
(small as it is), I wouldn't have reminded Tehun.

I fixed my customers problems the global way months ago, could have and
likely should have ignored the fact that buglet lives on in mainline.

-Mike

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