sched: split out css_online/css_offline from tg creation/destruction
This is a preparaton for later patches.
- What do we gain from cpu_cgroup_css_online():
After ss->css_alloc() and before ss->css_online(), there's a small
window that tg->css.cgroup is NULL. With this change, tg won't be seen
before ss->css_online(), where it's added to the global list, so we're
guaranteed we'll never see NULL tg->css.cgroup.
- What do we gain from cpu_cgroup_css_offline():
tg is freed via RCU, so is cgroup. Without this change, This is how
synchronization works:
cgroup_rmdir()
no ss->css_offline()
diput()
syncornize_rcu()
ss->css_free() <-- unregister tg, and free it via call_rcu()
kfree_rcu(cgroup) <-- wait possible refs to cgroup, and free cgroup
We can't just kfree(cgroup), because tg might access tg->css.cgroup.
With this change:
cgroup_rmdir()
ss->css_offline() <-- unregister tg
diput()
synchronize_rcu() <-- wait possible refs to tg and cgroup
ss->css_free() <-- free tg
kfree_rcu(cgroup) <-- free cgroup
As you see, kfree_rcu() is redundant now.
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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