1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
index 20411d2876f8..90bba9e62286 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
@@ -363,6 +363,23 @@ int cgroup_task_count(const struct cgroup *cgrp);
 int cgroup_is_descendant(const struct cgroup *cgrp, struct task_struct *task);
 
 /*
+ * When the subsys has to access css and may add permanent refcnt to css,
+ * it should take care of racy conditions with rmdir(). Following set of
+ * functions, is for stop/restart rmdir if necessary.
+ * Because these will call css_get/put, "css" should be alive css.
+ *
+ *  cgroup_exclude_rmdir();
+ *  ...do some jobs which may access arbitrary empty cgroup
+ *  cgroup_release_and_wakeup_rmdir();
+ *
+ *  When someone removes a cgroup while cgroup_exclude_rmdir() holds it,
+ *  it sleeps and cgroup_release_and_wakeup_rmdir() will wake him up.
+ */
+
+void cgroup_exclude_rmdir(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css);
+void cgroup_release_and_wakeup_rmdir(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css);
+
+/*
  * Control Group subsystem type.
  * See Documentation/cgroups/cgroups.txt for details
  */