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Commit 4efd1a1b authored by Pavel Emelyanov's avatar Pavel Emelyanov Committed by Linus Torvalds
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devcgroup: relax white-list protection down to RCU


Currently this list is protected with a simple spinlock, even for reading
from one.  This is OK, but can be better.

Actually I want it to be better very much, since after replacing the
OpenVZ device permissions engine with the cgroup-based one I noticed, that
we set 12 default device permissions for each newly created container (for
/dev/null, full, terminals, ect devices), and people sometimes have up to
20 perms more, so traversing the ~30-40 elements list under a spinlock
doesn't seem very good.

Here's the RCU protection for white-list - dev_whitelist_item-s are added
and removed under the devcg->lock, but are looked up in permissions
checking under the rcu_read_lock.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: default avatarSerge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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