This patch implements cgroup v2 thread support. The goal of the
thread mode is supporting hierarchical accounting and control at
thread granularity while staying inside the resource domain model
which allows coordination across different resource controllers and
handling of anonymous resource consumptions.
A cgroup is always created as a domain and can be made threaded by
writing to the "cgroup.type" file. When a cgroup becomes threaded, it
becomes a member of a threaded subtree which is anchored at the
closest ancestor which isn't threaded.
The threads of the processes which are in a threaded subtree can be
placed anywhere without being restricted by process granularity or
no-internal-process constraint. Note that the threads aren't allowed
to escape to a different threaded subtree. To be used inside a
threaded subtree, a controller should explicitly support threaded mode
and be able to handle internal competition in the way which is
appropriate for the resource.
The root of a threaded subtree, the nearest ancestor which isn't
threaded, is called the threaded domain and serves as the resource
domain for the whole subtree. This is the last cgroup where domain
controllers are operational and where all the domain-level resource
consumptions in the subtree are accounted. This allows threaded
controllers to operate at thread granularity when requested while
staying inside the scope of system-level resource distribution.
As the root cgroup is exempt from the no-internal-process constraint,
it can serve as both a threaded domain and a parent to normal cgroups,
so, unlike non-root cgroups, the root cgroup can have both domain and
threaded children.
Internally, in a threaded subtree, each css_set has its ->dom_cset
pointing to a matching css_set which belongs to the threaded domain.
This ensures that thread root level cgroup_subsys_state for all
threaded controllers are readily accessible for domain-level
operations.
This patch enables threaded mode for the pids and perf_events
controllers. Neither has to worry about domain-level resource
consumptions and it's enough to simply set the flag.
For more details on the interface and behavior of the thread mode,
please refer to the section 2-2-2 in Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt added
by this patch.
v5: - Dropped silly no-op ->dom_cgrp init from cgroup_create().
Spotted by Waiman.
- Documentation updated as suggested by Waiman.
- cgroup.type content slightly reformatted.
- Mark the debug controller threaded.
v4: - Updated to the general idea of marking specific cgroups
domain/threaded as suggested by PeterZ.
v3: - Dropped "join" and always make mixed children join the parent's
threaded subtree.
v2: - After discussions with Waiman, support for mixed thread mode is
added. This should address the issue that Peter pointed out
where any nesting should be avoided for thread subtrees while
coexisting with other domain cgroups.
- Enabling / disabling thread mode now piggy backs on the existing
control mask update mechanism.
- Bug fixes and cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
pids_can_fork() is special in that the css association is guaranteed
to be stable throughout the function and thus doesn't need RCU
protection around task_css access. When determining the css to charge
the pid, task_css_check() is used to override the RCU sanity check.
While adding a warning message on fork rejection from pids limit,
135b8b37bd ("cgroup: Add pids controller event when fork fails
because of pid limit") incorrectly added a task_css access which is
neither RCU protected or explicitly annotated. This triggers the
following suspicious RCU usage warning when RCU debugging is enabled.
cgroup: fork rejected by pids controller in
===============================
[ ERR: suspicious RCU usage. ]
4.10.0-work+ #1 Not tainted
-------------------------------
./include/linux/cgroup.h:435 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
other info that might help us debug this:
rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 0
1 lock held by bash/1748:
#0: (&cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem){+++++.}, at: [<ffffffff81052c96>] _do_fork+0xe6/0x6e0
stack backtrace:
CPU: 3 PID: 1748 Comm: bash Not tainted 4.10.0-work+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.9.3-1.fc25 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x68/0x93
lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xd7/0x110
pids_can_fork+0x1c7/0x1d0
cgroup_can_fork+0x67/0xc0
copy_process.part.58+0x1709/0x1e90
_do_fork+0xe6/0x6e0
SyS_clone+0x19/0x20
do_syscall_64+0x5c/0x140
entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
RIP: 0033:0x7f7853fab93a
RSP: 002b:00007ffc12d05c90 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000038
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f7853fab93a
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000001200011
RBP: 00007ffc12d05cc0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007f78548db700
R10: 00007f78548db9d0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000000006d4
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000055e3ebe2c04d
/asdf
There's no reason to dereference task_css again here when the
associated css is already available. Fix it by replacing the
task_cgroup() call with css->cgroup.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Fixes: 135b8b37bd ("cgroup: Add pids controller event when fork fails because of pid limit")
Cc: Kenny Yu <kennyyu@fb.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.8+
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
threadgroup_change_begin()/end() is a pointless wrapper around
cgroup_threadgroup_change_begin()/end(), minus a might_sleep()
in the !CONFIG_CGROUPS=y case.
Remove the wrappery, move the might_sleep() (the down_read()
already has a might_sleep() check).
This debloats <linux/sched.h> a bit and simplifies this API.
Update all call sites.
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>
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>
Tejun Heo
Ingo Molnar