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diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index 6d52cea7f33d..c35a1a7dd4d6 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -538,22 +538,19 @@ extern int group_balance_cpu(struct sched_group *sg);
/*
* Return the group to which this tasks belongs.
*
- * We use task_subsys_state_check() and extend the RCU verification with
- * pi->lock and rq->lock because cpu_cgroup_attach() holds those locks for each
- * task it moves into the cgroup. Therefore by holding either of those locks,
- * we pin the task to the current cgroup.
+ * We cannot use task_subsys_state() and friends because the cgroup
+ * subsystem changes that value before the cgroup_subsys::attach() method
+ * is called, therefore we cannot pin it and might observe the wrong value.
+ *
+ * The same is true for autogroup's p->signal->autogroup->tg, the autogroup
+ * core changes this before calling sched_move_task().
+ *
+ * Instead we use a 'copy' which is updated from sched_move_task() while
+ * holding both task_struct::pi_lock and rq::lock.
*/
static inline struct task_group *task_group(struct task_struct *p)
{
- struct task_group *tg;
- struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
-
- css = task_subsys_state_check(p, cpu_cgroup_subsys_id,
- lockdep_is_held(&p->pi_lock) ||
- lockdep_is_held(&task_rq(p)->lock));
- tg = container_of(css, struct task_group, css);
-
- return autogroup_task_group(p, tg);
+ return p->sched_task_group;
}
/* Change a task's cfs_rq and parent entity if it moves across CPUs/groups */
@@ -942,8 +939,6 @@ static inline u64 sched_avg_period(void)
return (u64)sysctl_sched_time_avg * NSEC_PER_MSEC / 2;
}
-void calc_load_account_idle(struct rq *this_rq);
-
#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_HRTICK
/*