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Commit e25e2cbb authored by Tejun Heo's avatar Tejun Heo
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cgroup: add cgroup_root_mutex



cgroup wants to make threadgroup stable while modifying cgroup
hierarchies which will introduce locking dependency on
cred_guard_mutex from cgroup_mutex.  This unfortunately completes
circular dependency.

 A. cgroup_mutex -> cred_guard_mutex -> s_type->i_mutex_key -> namespace_sem
 B. namespace_sem -> cgroup_mutex

B is from cgroup_show_options() and this patch breaks it by
introducing another mutex cgroup_root_mutex which nests inside
cgroup_mutex and protects cgroupfs_root.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: default avatarLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
parent 467de1fc
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