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SubjectRe: [PATCHSET cgroup/for-3.8] cgroup_freezer: allow migration regardless of freezer state and update locking
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 03:35:17PM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Matt.
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 03:21:55PM -0700, Matt Helsley wrote:
> > > Hmmm? Nothing prevents kthreads from being moved around. We only
> > > recently added the restriction to prevent migration of the kthreadd
> > > (the one which creates other kthreads). You can reproduce it with
> > > khungtask or any other !freezable kthreads.
> >
> > Ok. I don't immmediately see why that'd be a good idea but it's
> > possible..
>
> Beats me too. There were talks about restricting all kthreads from
> being moved out of the root cgroup. Dunno. Maybe.
>
> > <off_topic>
> > "Whoever" did the freeze needs a way to "lock" access to the freezer state,
> > change the freezer state itself, do something (e.g. CRIU) which relies on
> > the state not changing, and then release the lock. Plus the lock has to be
> > released by the kernel if "Whoever" dies without the chance to release it.
> > So I was thinking who holds the lock and its lifetime could be represented
> > in userspace by file descriptor(s).
> > </off_topic>
>
> Long term, I don't think it's feasible to continue to use cgroup
> kernel interface as the multiplexing layer among different users.
> cgroup core simply doesn't have enough context or infrastructure to
> support such usages. It's somewhere between being a pure interface to
> the provided kernel feature and fully multiplexed interface which
> userland applications can depend on for arbitration. It tries to have
> the appearance of the latter but fails.
>
> I think the only sane way would be having a userland arbitrator which
> owns the kernel interface to itself and makes policy decisions from
> userland clients and configures cgroup accordingly.

OK -- yeah, solving the arbitration issue in userspace might be best.

>
> > > As for CRIU, it isn't using cgroup freezer at the moment because
> > > frozen tasks can't be ptraced currently. Something I'm hoping to
> > > change but not sure when it can be done.
> >
> > OK, but that doesn't mean the frozen nature of the task list itself
> > won't be useful in the future.
>
> I think that should be solved via userland policies rather than
> depending on this accidental cgroup_freezer feature.

It's not accidental -- it *was an intended feature*:

22 # This bash script tests freezer code by starting a long sleep process.
23 # The sleep process is frozen. We then move the sleep process to a THAWED
24 # cgroup. We expect moving the sleep process to fail.

( This atrocious link is the easiest way to see the testcase:
http://ltp.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=ltp/ltp.git;a=blob;f=testcases/kernel/controllers/freezer/freeze_move_thaw.sh;h=b2d5a83506a8425b117be9ff775d9f73d2d58393;hb=0436176dbfe6fdaaf97590d2356eb23d2739b2c2
)

It was intended for something very much like the CRIU case I mentioned
:).

Cheers,
-Matt Helsley



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