From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753835Ab2ATPMq (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:12:46 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:4558 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753616Ab2ATPMl (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jan 2012 10:12:41 -0500 Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:06:20 +0100 From: Oleg Nesterov To: Mandeep Singh Baines Cc: Frederic Weisbecker , Li Zefan , Tejun Heo , LKML , Containers , Cgroups , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Paul Menage , Andrew Morton , "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: Re: Q: cgroup: Questions about possible issues in cgroup locking Message-ID: <20120120150620.GB9081@redhat.com> References: <20120111160730.GA24556@redhat.com> <20120112003102.GB9511@google.com> <20120112170728.GA25717@redhat.com> <20120112175725.GD9511@google.com> <20120113152010.GA19215@redhat.com> <20120113182750.GD18166@google.com> <20120114173648.GA32543@redhat.com> <20120118231742.GS18166@google.com> <20120119154522.GA14058@redhat.com> <20120119181803.GU18166@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120119181803.GU18166@google.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 01/19, Mandeep Singh Baines wrote: > > Oleg Nesterov (oleg@redhat.com) wrote: > > But we did > > have a reason (reasons?). Hopefully, the only really important reason > > was already removed by 087806b1. > > Ah. So the leader->group_leader may have been necessary earlier in order > to prevent two tasks, old leader and new leader from both returning true > for thread_group_leader(tsk). Not really. de_thread() does release_task(old_leader). Please look, for example, at __exit_signal(). thread_group_leader() must not be true in this case. Oleg.