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    Revert "sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem" · 0c986253
    Tejun Heo authored
    This reverts commit d59cfc09.
    
    d59cfc09 ("sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with
    a global percpu_rwsem") and b5ba75b5
    
     ("cgroup: simplify
    threadgroup locking") changed how cgroup synchronizes against task
    fork and exits so that it uses global percpu_rwsem instead of
    per-process rwsem; unfortunately, the write [un]lock paths of
    percpu_rwsem always involve synchronize_rcu_expedited() which turned
    out to be too expensive.
    
    Improvements for percpu_rwsem are scheduled to be merged in the coming
    v4.4-rc1 merge window which alleviates this issue.  For now, revert
    the two commits to restore per-process rwsem.  They will be re-applied
    for the v4.4-rc1 merge window.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/55F8097A.7000206@de.ibm.com
    
    
    Reported-by: default avatarChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
    Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
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