Re: [PATCH] cgroup: remove redundant variable in cgroup_mount()

[Tejun Heo]

Hello, Li.

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 02:49:10PM +0800, Zefan Li wrote:
> Both pinned_sb and new_sb indicate if a new superblock is needed,
> so we can just remove new_sb.
> 
> Note now we must check if kernfs_tryget_sb() returns NULL, because
> when it returns NULL, kernfs_mount() may still re-use an existing
> superblock, which is just allocated by another concurent mount.
> 
> Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Ah, this is so much better.  Thanks for doing this.  Applied to
cgroup/for-3.18.

> ---
> 
> Hi Tejun,
> 
> I think you wanted to see the @new_sb argument removed from kernfs_mount(),
> but it's also used in debugfs and we can't use kernfs_tryget_sb() to
> replace the new_sb check.

Bummer, someday. :)

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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