linux/kernel/cgroup.c, branch v3.16

cgroup: fix a race between cgroup_mount() and cgroup_kill_sb()

2014-06-30T14:16:26Z

We've converted cgroup to kernfs so cgroup won't be intertwined with vfs objects and locking, but there are dark areas. Run two instances of this script concurrently: for ((; ;)) { mount -t cgroup -o cpuacct xxx /cgroup umount /cgroup } After a while, I saw two mount processes were stuck at retrying, because they were waiting for a subsystem to become free, but the root associated with this subsystem never got freed. This can happen, if thread A is in the process of killing superblock but hasn't called percpu_ref_kill(), and at this time thread B is mounting the same cgroup root and finds the root in the root list and performs percpu_ref_try_get(). To fix this, we try to increase both the refcnt of the superblock and the percpu refcnt of cgroup root. v2: - we should try to get both the superblock refcnt and cgroup_root refcnt, because cgroup_root may have no superblock assosiated with it. - adjust/add comments. tj: Updated comments. Renamed @sb to @pinned_sb. Cc: # 3.15 Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

cgroup: fix mount failure in a corner case

2014-06-30T14:16:25Z

# cat test.sh #! /bin/bash mount -t cgroup -o cpu xxx /cgroup umount /cgroup mount -t cgroup -o cpu,cpuacct xxx /cgroup umount /cgroup # ./test.sh mount: xxx already mounted or /cgroup busy mount: according to mtab, xxx is already mounted on /cgroup It's because the cgroupfs_root of the first mount was under destruction asynchronously. Fix this by delaying and then retrying mount for this case. v3: - put the refcnt immediately after getting it. (Tejun) v2: - use percpu_ref_tryget_live() rather that introducing percpu_ref_alive(). (Tejun) - adjust comment. tj: Updated the comment a bit. Cc: # 3.15 Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

cgroup: fix broken css_has_online_children()

2014-06-17T22:52:53Z

After running: # mount -t cgroup cpu xxx /cgroup && mkdir /cgroup/sub && \ rmdir /cgroup/sub && umount /cgroup I found the cgroup root still existed: # cat /proc/cgroups #subsys_name hierarchy num_cgroups enabled cpuset 0 1 1 cpu 1 1 1 ... It turned out css_has_online_children() is broken. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Sigend-off-by: Tejun Heo

Merge branch 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2014-06-09T22:03:33Z

Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: "A lot of activities on cgroup side. Heavy restructuring including locking simplification took place to improve the code base and enable implementation of the unified hierarchy, which currently exists behind a __DEVEL__ mount option. The core support is mostly complete but individual controllers need further work. To explain the design and rationales of the the unified hierarchy Documentation/cgroups/unified-hierarchy.txt is added. Another notable change is css (cgroup_subsys_state - what each controller uses to identify and interact with a cgroup) iteration update. This is part of continuing updates on css object lifetime and visibility. cgroup started with reference count draining on removal way back and is now reaching a point where csses behave and are iterated like normal refcnted objects albeit with some complexities to allow distinguishing the state where they're being deleted. The css iteration update isn't taken advantage of yet but is planned to be used to simplify memcg significantly" * 'for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: (77 commits) cgroup: disallow disabled controllers on the default hierarchy cgroup: don't destroy the default root cgroup: disallow debug controller on the default hierarchy cgroup: clean up MAINTAINERS entries cgroup: implement css_tryget() device_cgroup: use css_has_online_children() instead of has_children() cgroup: convert cgroup_has_live_children() into css_has_online_children() cgroup: use CSS_ONLINE instead of CGRP_DEAD cgroup: iterate cgroup_subsys_states directly cgroup: introduce CSS_RELEASED and reduce css iteration fallback window cgroup: move cgroup->serial_nr into cgroup_subsys_state cgroup: link all cgroup_subsys_states in their sibling lists cgroup: move cgroup->sibling and ->children into cgroup_subsys_state cgroup: remove cgroup->parent device_cgroup: remove direct access to cgroup->children memcg: update memcg_has_children() to use css_next_child() memcg: remove tasks/children test from mem_cgroup_force_empty() cgroup: remove css_parent() cgroup: skip refcnting on normal root csses and cgrp_dfl_root self css cgroup: use cgroup->self.refcnt for cgroup refcnting ...

cgroup: disallow disabled controllers on the default hierarchy

2014-06-05T13:52:51Z

After booting with cgroup_disable=memory, I still saw memcg files in the default hierarchy, and I can write to them, though it won't take effect. # dmesg ... Disabling memory control group subsystem ... # mount -t cgroup -o __DEVEL__sane_behavior xxx /cgroup # ls /cgroup ... memory.failcnt memory.move_charge_at_immigrate memory.force_empty memory.numa_stat memory.limit_in_bytes memory.oom_control ... # cat /cgroup/memory.usage_in_bytes 0 tj: Minor comment update. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

cgroup: don't destroy the default root

2014-06-05T01:21:51Z

The default root is allocated and initialized at boot phase, so we shouldn't destroy the default root when it's umounted, otherwise it will lead to disaster. Just try mount and then umount the default root, and the kernel will crash immediately. v2: - No need to check for CSS_NO_REF in cgroup_get/put(). (Tejun) - Better call cgroup_put() for the default root in kill_sb(). (Tejun) - Add a comment. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

kernfs: move the last knowledge of sysfs out from kernfs

2014-06-03T15:11:18Z

There is still one residue of sysfs remaining: the sb_magic SYSFS_MAGIC. However this should be kernfs user specific, so this patch moves it out. Kerrnfs user should specify their magic number while mouting. Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cgroup: disallow debug controller on the default hierarchy

2014-05-19T20:37:06Z

The debug controller, as its name suggests, exposes cgroup core internals to userland to aid debugging. Unfortunately, except for the name, there's no provision to prevent its usage in production configurations and the controller is widely enabled and mounted leaking internal details to userland. Like most other debug information, the information exposed by debug isn't interesting even for debugging itself once the related parts are working reliably. This controller has no reason for existing. This patch implements cgrp_dfl_root_inhibit_ss_mask which can suppress specific subsystems on the default hierarchy and adds the debug subsystem to it so that it can be gradually deprecated as usages move towards the unified hierarchy. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

cgroup: convert cgroup_has_live_children() into css_has_online_children()

2014-05-16T17:22:52Z

Now that cgroup liveliness and css onliness are the same state, convert cgroup_has_live_children() into css_has_online_children() so that it can be used for actual csses too. The function now uses css_for_each_child() for iteration and is published. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Li Zefan

cgroup: use CSS_ONLINE instead of CGRP_DEAD

2014-05-16T17:22:51Z

Use CSS_ONLINE on the self css to indicate whether a cgroup has been killed instead of CGRP_DEAD. This will allow re-using css online test for cgroup liveliness test. This doesn't introduce any functional change. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Li Zefan