[Devel] Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] cgroups: make procs file writable

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 29 Dec 2010, Li Zefan wrote:

> > I think it would be appropriate to use a shared nodemask with file scope 
> > whenever you have cgroup_lock() to avoid the unnecessary kmalloc() even 
> > with GFP_KERNEL.  Cpusets are traditionally used on very large machines in 
> > the first place, so there is a higher likelihood that 
> > CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT > 8 whenever CONFIG_CPUSETS is enabled.
> > 
> > All users of NODEMASK_ALLOC() should be protected by cgroup_lock() other 
> > than cpuset_sprintf_memlist(), right?  That should be the only remaining 
> > user of NODEMASK_ALLOC() and works well since it can return -ENOMEM.
> > 
> 
> Changing cpuset->mems_allowed is protected by both cgroup_mutex and
> cpuset-specific lock (callback_mutex), so you can read it under either
> lock, so NODEMASK_ALLOC() is not needed. See cpuset_sprintf_cpulist().
> 

I'm not sure what you're saying.  Cpusets needs to allocate nodemasks for 
certain functions and doing on the stack can be problemantic if 
CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT is large because of overflow.  Thus, we can't have 
temporary nodemasks available on the stack where necessary in functions 
like cpuset_attach(), update_nodemask(), etc. that require them.  The 
suggestion was to use a statically allocated "scratch" nodemask since 
these functions are all protected by cgroup_lock().
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