cgroup: remove cgroup_pidlist->rwsem

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cgroup_pidlist locking is needlessly complicated.  It has outer
cgroup->pidlist_mutex to protect the list of pidlists associated with
a cgroup and then each pidlist has rwsem to synchronize updates and
reads.  Given that the only read access is from seq_file operations
which are always invoked back-to-back, the rwsem is a giant overkill.
All it does is adding unnecessary complexity.

This patch removes cgroup_pidlist->rwsem and protects all accesses to
pidlists belonging to a cgroup with cgroup->pidlist_mutex.
pidlist->rwsem locking is removed if it's nested inside
cgroup->pidlist_mutex; otherwise, it's replaced with
cgroup->pidlist_mutex locking.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>

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Tejun Heo 2013-11-29 10:42:59 -05:00

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