cgroup: decouple cgroup_subsys_state destruction from cgroup destruction
Currently, css (cgroup_subsys_state) lifetime is tied to that of the associated cgroup. css's are created when the associated cgroup is created and destroyed when it gets destroyed. Also, individual css's aren't RCU protected but the whole cgroup is. With the planned unified hierarchy, css's will need to be dynamically created and destroyed within the lifetime of a cgroup. To enable such usages, this patch decouples css destruction from cgroup destruction - offline_css() invocation and the final css_put() are moved from cgroup_destroy_css_killed() to css_killed_work_fn(). Now each css is individually offlined and put as its reference count is killed instead of waiting for all css's attached to the cgroup to finish refcnt killing and then proceeding to offlining and putting them together. While this changes the order of destruction operations, the changes shouldn't be noticeable to cgroup subsystems or userland. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
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