Pavel Emelianov wrote:
> [snip]
>
>>>> + for_each_child(child, res->rgroup) {
>>>> + child_res = get_memctlr(child);
>>>> + BUG_ON(!child_res);
>>>> + recalc_and_propagate(child_res, res);
>>> Recursion? Won't it eat all the stack in case of a deep tree?
>> The depth of the hierarchy can be controlled. Recursion is needed
>> to do a DFS walk
>
> That's another point against recursion - bad root can
> crash the kernel... If we are about to give container's
> users ability to make their own subtrees then we *must*
> avoid recursion. There's an algorithm that allows one
> to walk the tree like this w/o recursion.
Bad pointers are always bad, whether they are the root or
any other pointer. Tree traversal is a generic infrastructure issue
for any infrastructure that supports a hierarchy.
Are you talking about threaded trees? Yes, they can be traversed
without recursion. I need to recheck my DS reference to double
check.
>
> [snip]
>
>>> I didn't find where in this patches this callback is called.
>> It's a part of the resource groups infrastructure. It's been ported
>> on top of Paul Menage's containers patches. The code can be easily
>> adapted to work directly with containers instead of resource groups
>> if required.
>
>
> Could you please give me a link to the patch where this
> is called?
Please see
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03333.html
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Balbir Singh,
Linux Technology Center,
IBM Software Labs
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