cpuset: consider dying css as offline
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Wed, 24 May 2017 16:03:48 +0000 (12:03 -0400)
committerRaspbian kernel package updater <root@raspbian.org>
Sun, 23 Jul 2017 02:55:57 +0000 (02:55 +0000)
commitdc71ecb844e19a1d9d59d276ce50813d05692d4d
tree11d91337f4064f4dcc88a026955cf77643c7136b
parente2f06a2521b961ea152e166f267fb514588a7e10
cpuset: consider dying css as offline

commit 41c25707d21716826e3c1f60967f5550610ec1c9 upstream.

In most cases, a cgroup controller don't care about the liftimes of
cgroups.  For the controller, a css becomes online when ->css_online()
is called on it and offline when ->css_offline() is called.

However, cpuset is special in that the user interface it exposes cares
whether certain cgroups exist or not.  Combined with the RCU delay
between cgroup removal and css offlining, this can lead to user
visible behavior oddities where operations which should succeed after
cgroup removals fail for some time period.  The effects of cgroup
removals are delayed when seen from userland.

This patch adds css_is_dying() which tests whether offline is pending
and updates is_cpuset_online() so that the function returns false also
while offline is pending.  This gets rid of the userland visible
delays.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/327ca1f5-7957-fbb9-9e5f-9ba149d40ba2@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
include/linux/cgroup.h
kernel/cpuset.c