Creation of a kthread goes through a couple interlocked stages between
the kthread itself and its creator. Once the new kthread starts
running, it initializes itself and wakes up the creator. The creator
then can further configure the kthread and then let it start doing its
job by waking it up.
In this configuration-by-creator stage, the creator is the only one
that can wake it up but the kthread is visible to userland. When
altering the kthread's attributes from userland is allowed, this is
fine; however, for cases where CPU affinity is critical,
kthread_bind() is used to first disable affinity changes from userland
and then set the affinity. This also prevents the kthread from being
migrated into non-root cgroups as that can affect the CPU affinity and
many other things.
Unfortunately, the cgroup side of protection is racy. While the
PF_NO_SETAFFINITY flag prevents further migrations, userland can win
the race before the creator sets the flag with kthread_bind() and put
the kthread in a non-root cgroup, which can lead to all sorts of
problems including incorrect CPU affinity and starvation.
This bug got triggered by userland which periodically tries to migrate
all processes in the root cpuset cgroup to a non-root one. Per-cpu
workqueue workers got caught while being created and ended up with
incorrected CPU affinity breaking concurrency management and sometimes
stalling workqueue execution.
This patch adds task->no_cgroup_migration which disallows the task to
be migrated by userland. kthreadd starts with the flag set making
every child kthread start in the root cgroup with migration
disallowed. The flag is cleared after the kthread finishes
initialization by which time PF_NO_SETAFFINITY is set if the kthread
should stay in the root cgroup.
It'd be better to wait for the initialization instead of failing but I
couldn't think of a way of implementing that without adding either a
new PF flag, or sleeping and retrying from waiting side. Even if
userland depends on changing cgroup membership of a kthread, it either
has to be synchronized with kthread_create() or periodically repeat,
so it's unlikely that this would break anything.
v2: Switch to a simpler implementation using a new task_struct bit
field suggested by Oleg.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-and-debugged-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.3+ (we can't close the race on < v4.3)
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Now that <linux/sched.h> dependencies have been sorted out,
do various trivial cleanups:
- remove unnecessary structure predeclarations
- fix various typos
- update comments where necessary
- remove pointless comments
- use consistent types
- tabulate consistently
- use a consistent comment style
- clean up the header section a bit
- use a consistent style of a single field per line
- remove line-breaks where they make the code look worse
- etc ...
No change in functionality.
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>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
It's used only by a single (rarely used) inline function (task_node(p)),
which we can move to <linux/sched/topology.h>.
( Add <linux/nodemask.h>, because we rely on that. )
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>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Instead of including the full <linux/signal.h>, only include the types-only
<linux/signal_types.h> header in <linux/sched.h>, to further decouple the
scheduler header from the signal headers.
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>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This is a stray header that is not needed by anything in sched.h,
so remove it.
Update files that relied on the stray inclusion.
This reduces the size of the header dependency graph.
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>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
It's not used by anything in <linux/sched.h> anymore.
This reduces the preprocessed size of <linux/sched.h> and
speeds up the build a bit.
Also fix code that implicitly relied on headers included by <linux/cgroup-defs.h>.
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>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Move cputime related functionality out of <linux/sched.h>, as most code
that includes <linux/sched.h> does not use that functionality.
Move data types that are not included in task_struct directly to
the signal definitions, into <linux/sched/signal.h>.
Also merge the (small) existing <linux/cputime.h> header into <linux/sched/cputime.h>.
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>
Also remove the duplicate declaration from <linux/init_task.h>.
( That declaration was originally duplicated for dependency hell reasons,
but there's no problem including the much smaller <linux/sched/autogroup.h>
header now, to pick up the right prototype. )
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>
There's a fair amount of task lifetime management (a.k.a fork()/exit())
related APIs in <linux/sched.h>, but only a small fraction of
the users of the generic sched.h header make use of them.
Move these functions to the <linux/sched/task.h> 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>
Linux-0.01 already defined 'current' in the middle of sched.h, so this
is an ancient historical precedent - but still in a modern kernel it
looks a bit weird that we have:
#include <asm/current.h>
in the middle of the header.
Move it further up. If this was done for some obscure dependency
reasons then we'll trigger and document 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>
