/proc/$pid/mountinfo may accumulate lots of entries (causing frequent re-reads of whole file) or lots cgroupfs entries alone. The cgroupfs entries rendered with cgroup_show_path() may increase/be subject of css_set_lock contention causing further slowdown -- not only mountinfo rendering but any other css_set_lock user. We leverage the fact that mountinfo reading happens with namespace_sem taken and hierarchy roots thus cannot be freed concurrently. There are three relevant nodes for each cgroupfs entry: R ... cgroup hierarchy root M ... mount root C ... reader's cgroup NS root mountinfo is supposed to show path from C to M. Current's css_set (and linked root cgroups) are stable under namespace_sem, therefore current_cgns_cgroup_from_root() doesn't need css_set_lock. When the path is assembled in kernfs_path_from_node(), we know that: - C kernfs_node is (transitively) pinned via current->nsproxy, - M kernfs_node is pinned thanks to namespace_sem, - path C to M is pinned via child->parent references (this holds also when C and M are in distinct subtrees). Streamline mountinfo rendering a bit by relieving css_set_lock and add careful notes about that. Signed-off-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c index 32d693a797b9..e2ec6f0028be 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c @@ -1407,12 +1407,18 @@ static inline struct cgroup *__cset_cgroup_from_root(struct css_set *cset, struct cgroup *res_cgroup = NULL; if (cset == &init_css_set) { + /* callers must ensure root stability */ res_cgroup = &root->cgrp; } else if (root == &cgrp_dfl_root) { res_cgroup = cset->dfl_cgrp; } else { struct cgrp_cset_link *link; - lockdep_assert_held(&css_set_lock); + /* cset's cgroups are pinned unless they are root cgroups that + * were unmounted. We look at links to !cgrp_dfl_root + * cgroup_root, either lock ensures the list is not mutated + */ + lockdep_assert(lockdep_is_held(&css_set_lock) || + lockdep_is_held_type(&namespace_sem, -1)); list_for_each_entry(link, &cset->cgrp_links, cgrp_link) { struct cgroup *c = link->cgrp; @@ -1438,8 +1444,6 @@ current_cgns_cgroup_from_root(struct cgroup_root *root) struct cgroup *res = NULL; struct css_set *cset; - lockdep_assert_held(&css_set_lock); - /* namespace_sem ensures `root` stability on unmount */ lockdep_assert(lockdep_is_held_type(&namespace_sem, -1)); @@ -1905,10 +1909,8 @@ int cgroup_show_path(struct seq_file *sf, struct kernfs_node *kf_node, if (!buf) return -ENOMEM; - spin_lock_irq(&css_set_lock); ns_cgroup = current_cgns_cgroup_from_root(kf_cgroot); len = kernfs_path_from_node(kf_node, ns_cgroup->kn, buf, PATH_MAX); - spin_unlock_irq(&css_set_lock); if (len >= PATH_MAX) len = -ERANGE; -- 2.40.1