cgroup: remove cgroup_tree_mutex
cgroup_tree_mutex was introduced to work around the circular
dependency between cgroup_mutex and kernfs active protection - some
kernfs file and directory operations needed cgroup_mutex putting
cgroup_mutex under active protection but cgroup also needs to be able
to access cgroup hierarchies and cftypes to determine which
kernfs_nodes need to be removed. cgroup_tree_mutex nested above both
cgroup_mutex and kernfs active protection and used to protect the
hierarchy and cftypes. While this worked, it added a lot of double
lockings and was generally cumbersome.
kernfs provides a mechanism to opt out of active protection and cgroup
was already using it for removal and subtree_control. There's no
reason to mix both methods of avoiding circular locking dependency and
the preceding cgroup_kn_lock_live() changes applied it to all relevant
cgroup kernfs operations making it unnecessary to nest cgroup_mutex
under kernfs active protection. The previous patch reversed the
original lock ordering and put cgroup_mutex above kernfs active
protection.
After these changes, all cgroup_tree_mutex usages are now accompanied
by cgroup_mutex making the former completely redundant. This patch
removes cgroup_tree_mutex and all its usages.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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