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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
Currently, pidlists are reference counted from file open and release methods. This means that holding onto an open file may waste memory and reads may return data which is very stale. Both aren't critical because pidlists are keyed and shared per namespace and, well, the user isn't supposed to have large delay between open and reads. cgroup is planned to be converted to use kernfs and it'd be best if we can stick to just the seq_file operations - start, next, stop and show. This can be achieved by loading pidlist on demand from start and release with time delay from stop, so that consecutive reads don't end up reloading the pidlist on each iteration. This would remove the need for hooking into open and release while also avoiding issues with holding onto pidlist for too long. The previous patches implemented delayed release and restructured pidlist handling so that pidlists can be loaded and released from seq_file start / stop. This patch actually moves pidlist load to start and release to stop. This means that pidlist is pinned only between start and stop and may go away between two consecutive read calls if the two calls are apart by more than CGROUP_PIDLIST_DESTROY_DELAY. cgroup_pidlist_start() thus can't re-use the stored cgroup_pid_list_open_file->pidlist directly. During start, it's only used as a hint indicating whether this is the first start after open or not and pidlist is always looked up or created. pidlist_mutex locking and reference counting are moved out of pidlist_array_load() so that pidlist_array_load() can perform lookup and creation atomically. While this enlarges the area covered by pidlist_mutex, given how the lock is used, it's highly unlikely to be noticeable. v2: Refreshed on top of the updated "cgroup: introduce struct cgroup_pidlist_open_file". Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: NLi Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
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