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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cgroup: pids: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE for pids->limit operations
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 08:41:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191014154136.GF18794@devbig004.ftw2.facebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191012010539.6131-1-cyphar@cyphar.com>

On Sat, Oct 12, 2019 at 12:05:39PM +1100, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> Because pids->limit can be changed concurrently (but we don't want to
> take a lock because it would be needlessly expensive), use the
> appropriate memory barriers.

I can't quite tell what problem it's fixing.  Can you elaborate a
scenario where the current code would break that your patch fixes?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-14 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-12  1:05 [PATCH] cgroup: pids: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE for pids->limit operations Aleksa Sarai
2019-10-14 15:41 ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2019-10-14 15:59   ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-10-14 16:33     ` Tejun Heo
2019-10-16  8:32       ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-10-16 14:27         ` Tejun Heo
2019-10-16 15:29           ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-10-16 15:32             ` Tejun Heo
2019-10-16 15:35             ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-10-16 15:54               ` Tejun Heo

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