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SubjectRe: [RFC][-mm] Add an owner to the mm_struct (v3)
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Balbir Singh
<balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Here we'll want to call vm_cgroup_update_mm_owner(), to adjust the
> > accounting. (Or if in future we end up with more than a couple of
> > subsystems that want notification at this time, we'll want to call
> > cgroup_update_mm_owner() and have it call any interested subsystems.
> >
>
> I don't think we need to adjust accounting, since only mm->owner is changing and
> not the cgroup to which the task/mm belongs. Do we really need to notify? I
> don't want to do any notifications under task_lock().

It's possible but unlikely that the new owner is in a different cgroup.

Paul


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