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SubjectRe: [PATCHSET] cpuset: decouple cpuset locking from cgroup core, take#2
(2013/01/04 6:35), Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, guys.
>
> This is the second attempt at decoupling cpuset locking from cgroup
> core. Changes from the last take[L] are
>
> * cpuset-drop-async_rebuild_sched_domains.patch moved from 0007 to
> 0009. This reordering makes cpu hotplug handling async first and
> removes the temporary cyclic locking dependency.
>
> * 0006-cpuset-cleanup-cpuset-_can-_attach.patch no longer converts
> cpumask_var_t to cpumask_t as per Rusty Russell.
>
> * 0008-cpuset-don-t-nest-cgroup_mutex-inside-get_online_cpu.patch now
> synchronously rebuilds sched domains from cpu hotplug callback.
> This fixes various issues caused by confused scheduler puttings
> tasks into a dead cpu including the RCU stall problem reported by Li
> Zefan.
>
> Original patchset description follows.
>
> Depending on cgroup core locking - cgroup_mutex - is messy and makes
> cgroup prone to locking dependency problems. The current code already
> has lock dependency loop - memcg nests get_online_cpus() inside
> cgroup_mutex. cpuset the other way around.
>
> Regardless of the locking details, whatever is protecting cgroup has
> inherently to be something outer to most other locking constructs.
> cgroup calls into a lot of major subsystems which in turn have to
> perform subsystem-specific locking. Trying to nest cgroup
> synchronization inside other locks isn't something which can work
> well.
>
> cgroup now has enough API to allow subsystems to implement their own
> locking and cgroup_mutex is scheduled to be made private to cgroup
> core. This patchset makes cpuset implement its own locking instead of
> relying on cgroup_mutex.
>
> cpuset is rather nasty in this respect. Some of it seems to have come
> from the implementation history - cgroup core grew out of cpuset - but
> big part stems from cpuset's need to migrate tasks to an ancestor
> cgroup when an hotunplug event makes a cpuset empty (w/o any cpu or
> memory).
>
> This patchset decouples cpuset locking from cgroup_mutex. After the
> patchset, cpuset uses cpuset-specific cpuset_mutex instead of
> cgroup_mutex. This also removes the lockdep warning triggered during
> cpu offlining (see 0009).
>
> Note that this leaves memcg as the only external user of cgroup_mutex.
> Michal, Kame, can you guys please convert memcg to use its own locking
> too?
>

Okay...but If Costa has a new version of his patch, I'd like to see it.
I'm sorry if I missed his new patches for removing cgroup_lock.

Thanks,
-Kame

Thanks,
-Kame





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