From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965563AbcIHTnt (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2016 15:43:49 -0400 Received: from Galois.linutronix.de ([146.0.238.70]:45695 "EHLO Galois.linutronix.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755923AbcIHTns (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2016 15:43:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2016 21:41:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Fenghua Yu cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Tony Luck , Peter Zijlstra , Tejun Heo , Borislav Petkov , Stephane Eranian , Marcelo Tosatti , David Carrillo-Cisneros , Shaohua Li , Ravi V Shankar , Vikas Shivappa , Sai Prakhya , linux-kernel , x86 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 26/33] Task fork and exit for rdtgroup In-Reply-To: <1473328647-33116-27-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com> Message-ID: References: <1473328647-33116-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com> <1473328647-33116-27-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (DEB 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 8 Sep 2016, Fenghua Yu wrote: > > cgroup_exit(tsk); > + rdtgroup_exit(tsk); So this actually does: > +void rdtgroup_exit(struct task_struct *tsk) > +{ > + > + if (!list_empty(&tsk->rg_list)) { > + struct rdtgroup *rdtgrp = tsk->rdtgroup; > + > + list_del_init(&tsk->rg_list); > + tsk->rdtgroup = NULL; > + atomic_dec(&rdtgrp->refcount); > + } > +} with complete lack of locking ..... Brilliant stuff that. tglx