Tejun Heo 6680c162b4 selftests/cgroup: Don't require synchronous populated update on task exit ...

test_cgcore_populated (test_core) and test_cgkill_{simple,tree,forkbomb}
(test_kill) check cgroup.events "populated 0" immediately after reaping
child tasks with waitpid(). This used to work because cgroup_task_exit() in
do_exit() unlinked tasks from css_sets before exit_notify() woke up
waitpid().

d245698d72 ("cgroup: Defer task cgroup unlink until after the task is done
switching out") moved the unlink to cgroup_task_dead() in
finish_task_switch(), which runs after exit_notify(). The populated counter
is now decremented after the parent's waitpid() can return, so there is no
longer a synchronous ordering guarantee. On PREEMPT_RT, where
cgroup_task_dead() is further deferred through lazy irq_work, the race
window is even larger.

The synchronous populated transition was never part of the cgroup interface
contract - it was an implementation artifact. Use cg_read_strcmp_wait() which
retries for up to 1 second, matching what these tests actually need to
verify: that the cgroup eventually becomes unpopulated after all tasks exit.

Fixes: d245698d72 ("cgroup: Defer task cgroup unlink until after the task is done switching out")
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org

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cgroup_util.h

selftests/cgroup: Don't require synchronous populated update on task exit

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