This patch updates the memory controller to use its hierarchy_mutex
rather than calling cgroup_lock() to protected against
cgroup_mkdir()/cgroup_rmdir() from occurring in its hierarchy.

Signed-off-by: Paul Menage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

---
 mm/memcontrol.c |   14 ++++++--------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Index: hierarchy_lock-mmotm-2008-12-09/mm/memcontrol.c
===================================================================
--- hierarchy_lock-mmotm-2008-12-09.orig/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ hierarchy_lock-mmotm-2008-12-09/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
 
        /*
         * While reclaiming in a hiearchy, we cache the last child we
-        * reclaimed from. Protected by cgroup_lock()
+        * reclaimed from. Protected by hierarchy_mutex
         */
        struct mem_cgroup *last_scanned_child;
        /*
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ unsigned long mem_cgroup_isolate_pages(u
 
 /*
  * This routine finds the DFS walk successor. This routine should be
- * called with cgroup_mutex held
+ * called with hierarchy_mutex held
  */
 static struct mem_cgroup *
 mem_cgroup_get_next_node(struct mem_cgroup *curr, struct mem_cgroup *root_mem)
@@ -598,7 +598,7 @@ mem_cgroup_get_first_node(struct mem_cgr
        /*
         * Scan all children under the mem_cgroup mem
         */
-       cgroup_lock();
+       mutex_lock(&mem_cgroup_subsys.hierarchy_mutex);
        if (list_empty(&root_mem->css.cgroup->children)) {
                ret = root_mem;
                goto done;
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ mem_cgroup_get_first_node(struct mem_cgr
 
 done:
        root_mem->last_scanned_child = ret;
-       cgroup_unlock();
+       mutex_unlock(&mem_cgroup_subsys.hierarchy_mutex);
        return ret;
 }
 
@@ -683,18 +683,16 @@ static int mem_cgroup_hierarchical_recla
        while (next_mem != root_mem) {
                if (next_mem->obsolete) {
                        mem_cgroup_put(next_mem);
-                       cgroup_lock();
                        next_mem = mem_cgroup_get_first_node(root_mem);
-                       cgroup_unlock();
                        continue;
                }
                ret = try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(next_mem, gfp_mask, noswap,
                                                   get_swappiness(next_mem));
                if (mem_cgroup_check_under_limit(root_mem))
                        return 0;
-               cgroup_lock();
+               mutex_lock(&mem_cgroup_subsys.hierarchy_mutex);
                next_mem = mem_cgroup_get_next_node(next_mem, root_mem);
-               cgroup_unlock();
+               mutex_unlock(&mem_cgroup_subsys.hierarchy_mutex);
        }
        return ret;
 }

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