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    memcg: split part of memcg creation to css_online · d142e3e6
    Glauber Costa authored
    This patch is a preparatory work for later locking rework to get rid of
    big cgroup lock from memory controller code.
    
    The memory controller uses some tunables to adjust its operation.  Those
    tunables are inherited from parent to children upon children
    intialization.  For most of them, the value cannot be changed after the
    parent has a new children.
    
    cgroup core splits initialization in two phases: css_alloc and css_online.
    After css_alloc, the memory allocation and basic initialization are done.
    But the new group is not yet visible anywhere, not even for cgroup core
    code.  It is only somewhere between css_alloc and css_online that it is
    inserted into the internal children lists.  Copying tunable values in
    css_alloc will lead to inconsistent values: the children will copy the old
    parent values, that can change between the copy and the moment in which
    the groups is linked to any data structure that can indicate the presence
    of children.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGlauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
    Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com>
    Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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