fs is otherwise invisible from userland), and, to policy implementations, this is an unnecessary restriction (e.g. blkcg wants to hold css refs for caching purposes but can't as that becomes visible as rmdir hang). Unfortunately, memcg currently depends on ->pre_destroy() retrials and cgroup removal vetoing and can't be immmediately switched to the new behavior. This patch introduces the new behavior of not waiting for css refs to drain and maintains the old behavior for subsystems which have __DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs set. Once, memcg is updated, we can drop the code paths for the old behavior as proposed in the following patch. Note that the following patch is incorrect in that dput work item is in cgroup and may lose some of dputs when multiples css's are released back-to-back, and __css_put() triggers check_for_release() when refcnt reaches 0 instead of 1; however, it shows what part can be removed. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.containers/22559/focus=75251 Note that, in not-too-distant future, cgroup core will start emitting warning messages for subsys which require the old behavior, so please get moving. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Li Zefan Cc: Vivek Goyal Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki