cgroup: Eliminate the need for cgroup_mutex in proc_cgroup_show()
The cgroup root_list is already RCU-safe. Therefore, we can replace the cgroup_mutex with the RCU read lock in some particular paths. This change will be particularly beneficial for frequent operations, such as `cat /proc/self/cgroup`, in a cgroup1-based container environment. I did stress tests with this change, as outlined below (with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST enabled): - Continuously mounting and unmounting named cgroups in some tasks, for example: cgrp_name=$1 while true do mount -t cgroup -o none,name=$cgrp_name none /$cgrp_name umount /$cgrp_name done - Continuously triggering proc_cgroup_show() in some tasks concurrently, for example: while true; do cat /proc/self/cgroup > /dev/null; done They can ran successfully after implementing this change, with no RCU warnings in dmesg. Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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