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cpuset: fix possible deadlock in async_rebuild_sched_domains 

Lockdep reported some possible circular locking info when we tested cpuset on
NUMA/fake NUMA box.

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[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
2.6.29-rc1-00224-ga652504 #111
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bash/2968 is trying to acquire lock:
 (events){--..}, at: [<ffffffff8024c8cd>] flush_work+0x24/0xd8

but task is already holding lock:
 (cgroup_mutex){--..}, at: [<ffffffff8026ad1e>] cgroup_lock_live_group+0x12/0x29

which lock already depends on the new lock.
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Steps to reproduce:
# mkdir /dev/cpuset
# mount -t cpuset xxx /dev/cpuset
# mkdir /dev/cpuset/0
# echo 0 > /dev/cpuset/0/cpus
# echo 0 > /dev/cpuset/0/mems
# echo 1 > /dev/cpuset/0/memory_migrate
# cat /dev/zero > /dev/null &
# echo $! > /dev/cpuset/0/tasks

This is because async_rebuild_sched_domains has the following lock sequence:
run_workqueue(async_rebuild_sched_domains)
	-> do_rebuild_sched_domains -> cgroup_lock

But, attaching tasks when memory_migrate is set has following:
cgroup_lock_live_group(cgroup_tasks_write)
	-> do_migrate_pages -> flush_work

This patch fixes it by using a separate workqueue thread.

Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Miao Xie 2009-01-16 10:24:10 +08:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
parent f3b8436ad9
commit f90d4118ba
1 changed files with 12 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -60,6 +60,14 @@
#include <linux/workqueue.h>
#include <linux/cgroup.h>
/*
* Workqueue for cpuset related tasks.
*
* Using kevent workqueue may cause deadlock when memory_migrate
* is set. So we create a separate workqueue thread for cpuset.
*/
static struct workqueue_struct *cpuset_wq;
/*
* Tracks how many cpusets are currently defined in system.
* When there is only one cpuset (the root cpuset) we can
@ -831,7 +839,7 @@ static DECLARE_WORK(rebuild_sched_domains_work, do_rebuild_sched_domains);
*/
static void async_rebuild_sched_domains(void)
{
schedule_work(&rebuild_sched_domains_work);
queue_work(cpuset_wq, &rebuild_sched_domains_work);
}
/*
@ -2111,6 +2119,9 @@ void __init cpuset_init_smp(void)
hotcpu_notifier(cpuset_track_online_cpus, 0);
hotplug_memory_notifier(cpuset_track_online_nodes, 10);
cpuset_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("cpuset");
BUG_ON(!cpuset_wq);
}
/**