Re: [PATCH 1/8] cgroup: kill cgroup_subsys->__DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs

From: Li Zefan
Date: Mon Nov 05 2012 - 00:35:45 EST


On 2012/11/1 3:44, Tejun Heo wrote:
> 2ef37d3fe4 ("memcg: Simplify mem_cgroup_force_empty_list error
> handling") removed the last user of __DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs. This
> patch removes __DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs and mechanisms to support
> it.
>
> * Conditionals dependent on __DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs removed.
>
> * cgroup_clear_css_refs() can no longer fail. All that needs to be
> done are deactivating refcnts, setting CSS_REMOVED and putting the
> base reference on each css. Remove cgroup_clear_css_refs() and the
> failure path, and open-code the loops into cgroup_rmdir().
>
> This patch keeps the two for_each_subsys() loops separate while open
> coding them. They can be merged now but there are scheduled changes
> which need them to be separate, so keep them separate to reduce the
> amount of churn.
>
> local_irq_save/restore() from cgroup_clear_css_refs() are replaced
> with local_irq_disable/enable() for simplicity. This is safe as
> cgroup_rmdir() is always called with IRQ enabled. Note that this IRQ
> switching is necessary to make CSS deactivation and CSS_REMOVED
> assertion atomic against css_tryget() and will be removed by future
> changes.
>
> v2: cgroup_call_pre_destroy() removal dropped per Michal. Commit
> message updated to explain local_irq_disable/enable() conversion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>


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