On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 04:38:26PM -0800, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> Now the number of descendant cgroups and the number of dying
> descendant cgroups are synchronized using the cgroup_mutex.
> 
> The number of descendant cgroups will be required by the cgroup v2
> freezer, which will use it to determine if a cgroup is frozen
> (depending on total number of descendants and number of frozen
> descendants). It's not always acceptable to grab the cgroup_mutex,
> especially from quite hot paths (e.g. exit()).
> 
> To avoid this, let's additionally synchronize these counters
> using the css_set_lock.

Can you change it so that writes are cgroup_mutex and css_set_lock
protected and reads can be done under either cgroup_mutex or
css_set_lock?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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