Re: [PATCH 5/7] cgroup_freezer: allow moving tasks in and out of afrozen cgroup

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Mon Oct 22 2012 - 17:25:05 EST


Hello,

On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 09:25:06PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > @@ -190,12 +201,12 @@ static void freezer_fork(struct task_struct *task)
> > goto out;
> >
> > spin_lock_irq(&freezer->lock);
> > - BUG_ON(freezer->state == CGROUP_FROZEN);
> > -
> > - /* Locking avoids race with FREEZING -> THAWED transitions. */
> > - if (freezer->state == CGROUP_FREEZING)
> > + /*
> > + * @task might have been just migrated into a FROZEN cgroup.
>
> Confused. If it was migrated, then freezer_attach() should take care
> do freeze_task?

Hmmm... there's a window where a task is migrated but ->attach()
hasn't completed yet, so freezer_attach() might not have kicked in
yet. It might not be strictly necessary but I think it's more
consistent this way. No?

Thanks.

--
tejun
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