Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] cgroup: cgroup v2 freezer

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Nov 20 2018 - 13:05:27 EST


Hello,

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 05:39:03PM +0000, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> Yeah, it's a good point. I've thought about it mostly in the fork() context,
> where if freezing of a cgroup races with fork(), it makes no sense to
> switch the cgroup state back and forth. But that case is different, as
> the child will be trapped just on the return path from fork() call.

I think it'd be best to tie the task counter transitions to cgroup
state update and propagation so that the state is always reflective of
the task states.

Thanks.

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tejun