In codepaths that use the begin/retry interface for reading
mems_allowed_seq with irqs disabled, there exists a race condition that
stalls the patch process after only modifying a subset of the
static_branch call sites.
This problem manifested itself as a deadlock in the slub allocator,
inside get_any_partial. The loop reads mems_allowed_seq value (via
read_mems_allowed_begin), performs the defrag operation, and then
verifies the consistency of mem_allowed via the read_mems_allowed_retry
and the cookie returned by xxx_begin.
The issue here is that both begin and retry first check if cpusets are
enabled via cpusets_enabled() static branch. This branch can be
rewritted dynamically (via cpuset_inc) if a new cpuset is created. The
x86 jump label code fully synchronizes across all CPUs for every entry
it rewrites. If it rewrites only one of the callsites (specifically the
one in read_mems_allowed_retry) and then waits for the
smp_call_function(do_sync_core) to complete while a CPU is inside the
begin/retry section with IRQs off and the mems_allowed value is changed,
we can hang.
This is because begin() will always return 0 (since it wasn't patched
yet) while retry() will test the 0 against the actual value of the seq
counter.
The fix is to use two different static keys: one for begin
(pre_enable_key) and one for retry (enable_key). In cpuset_inc(), we
first bump the pre_enable key to ensure that cpuset_mems_allowed_begin()
always return a valid seqcount if are enabling cpusets. Similarly, when
disabling cpusets via cpuset_dec(), we first ensure that callers of
cpuset_mems_allowed_retry() will start ignoring the seqcount value
before we let cpuset_mems_allowed_begin() return 0.
The relevant stack traces of the two stuck threads:
CPU: 1 PID: 1415 Comm: mkdir Tainted: G L 4.9.36-00104-g540c51286237 #4
Hardware name: Default string Default string/Hardware, BIOS 4.29.1-20170526215256 05/26/2017
task: ffff8817f9c28000 task.stack: ffffc9000ffa4000
RIP: smp_call_function_many+0x1f9/0x260
Call Trace:
smp_call_function+0x3b/0x70
on_each_cpu+0x2f/0x90
text_poke_bp+0x87/0xd0
arch_jump_label_transform+0x93/0x100
__jump_label_update+0x77/0x90
jump_label_update+0xaa/0xc0
static_key_slow_inc+0x9e/0xb0
cpuset_css_online+0x70/0x2e0
online_css+0x2c/0xa0
cgroup_apply_control_enable+0x27f/0x3d0
cgroup_mkdir+0x2b7/0x420
kernfs_iop_mkdir+0x5a/0x80
vfs_mkdir+0xf6/0x1a0
SyS_mkdir+0xb7/0xe0
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0xad
...
CPU: 2 PID: 1 Comm: init Tainted: G L 4.9.36-00104-g540c51286237 #4
Hardware name: Default string Default string/Hardware, BIOS 4.29.1-20170526215256 05/26/2017
task: ffff8818087c0000 task.stack: ffffc90000030000
RIP: int3+0x39/0x70
Call Trace:
<#DB> ? ___slab_alloc+0x28b/0x5a0
<EOE> ? copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
__slab_alloc.isra.80+0x54/0x90
copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x8a/0x280
copy_process.part.40+0xf7/0x1de0
_do_fork+0xe7/0x6c0
_raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2d/0x60
trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x136/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x5/0xad
do_syscall_64+0x27/0x350
SyS_clone+0x19/0x20
do_syscall_64+0x60/0x350
entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170731040113.14197-1-dmitriyz@waymo.com
Fixes: 46e700abc4 ("mm, page_alloc: remove unnecessary taking of a seqlock when cpusets are disabled")
Signed-off-by: Dima Zavin <dmitriyz@waymo.com>
Reported-by: Cliff Spradlin <cspradlin@waymo.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Christopher Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When updating task's mems_allowed and rebinding its mempolicy due to
cpuset's mems being changed, we currently only take the seqlock for
writing when either the task has a mempolicy, or the new mems has no
intersection with the old mems.
This should be enough to prevent a parallel allocation seeing no
available nodes, but the optimization is IMHO unnecessary (cpuset
updates should not be frequent), and we still potentially risk issues if
the intersection of new and old nodes has limited amount of
free/reclaimable memory.
Let's just use the seqlock for all tasks.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170517081140.30654-6-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit c0ff7453bb ("cpuset,mm: fix no node to alloc memory when
changing cpuset's mems") has introduced a two-step protocol when
rebinding task's mempolicy due to cpuset update, in order to avoid a
parallel allocation seeing an empty effective nodemask and failing.
Later, commit cc9a6c8776 ("cpuset: mm: reduce large amounts of memory
barrier related damage v3") introduced a seqlock protection and removed
the synchronization point between the two update steps. At that point
(or perhaps later), the two-step rebinding became unnecessary.
Currently it only makes sure that the update first adds new nodes in
step 1 and then removes nodes in step 2. Without memory barriers the
effects are questionable, and even then this cannot prevent a parallel
zonelist iteration checking the nodemask at each step to observe all
nodes as unusable for allocation. We now fully rely on the seqlock to
prevent premature OOMs and allocation failures.
We can thus remove the two-step update parts and simplify the code.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170517081140.30654-5-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In most cases, a cgroup controller don't care about the liftimes of
cgroups. For the controller, a css becomes online when ->css_online()
is called on it and offline when ->css_offline() is called.
However, cpuset is special in that the user interface it exposes cares
whether certain cgroups exist or not. Combined with the RCU delay
between cgroup removal and css offlining, this can lead to user
visible behavior oddities where operations which should succeed after
cgroup removals fail for some time period. The effects of cgroup
removals are delayed when seen from userland.
This patch adds css_is_dying() which tests whether offline is pending
and updates is_cpuset_online() so that the function returns false also
while offline is pending. This gets rid of the userland visible
delays.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/327ca1f5-7957-fbb9-9e5f-9ba149d40ba2@oracle.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
In cpuset_update_active_cpus(), cpu_online isn't used anymore. Remove
it.
Signed-off-by: Rakib Mullick<rakib.mullick@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Use BUG_ON() rather than an explicit if followed by BUG() for
improved readability and also consistency.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
But first update the code that uses these facilities with the
new header.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We are going to split <linux/sched/mm.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/mm.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
The APIs that are going to be moved first are:
mm_alloc()
__mmdrop()
mmdrop()
mmdrop_async_fn()
mmdrop_async()
mmget_not_zero()
mmput()
mmput_async()
get_task_mm()
mm_access()
mm_release()
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
They're growing to be too many and planned to get split further. Move
them under their own directory.
kernel/cgroup.c -> kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
kernel/cgroup_freezer.c -> kernel/cgroup/freezer.c
kernel/cgroup_pids.c -> kernel/cgroup/pids.c
kernel/cpuset.c -> kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Acked-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Dima Zavin