On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 05:24:08PM +0100, Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: > it avoids blocking on synchronize_rcu() in kern_umount(). > > the code: > > \#define _GNU_SOURCE > \#include <sched.h> > \#include <error.h> > \#include <errno.h> > \#include <stdlib.h> > int main() > { > int i; > for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) > if (unshare (CLONE_NEWIPC) < 0) > error (EXIT_FAILURE, errno, "unshare"); > } > > gets from: > > Command being timed: "./ipc-namespace" > User time (seconds): 0.00 > System time (seconds): 0.06 > Percent of CPU this job got: 0% > Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:08.05 > > to: > > Command being timed: "./ipc-namespace" > User time (seconds): 0.00 > System time (seconds): 0.02 > Percent of CPU this job got: 96% > Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:00.03 Nice speedup! However, I am not convinced that the code shown below is safe. I believe that you need either a synchronize_rcu() in your free_ipc() function or that you need to pass free_ipc() to queue_rcu_work() instead of directly schedule_work(). As things are, I would expect you to see free_ipc_ns() being invoke too soon on heavily loaded CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels. Which can be quite a pain to debug! Or am I missing something? Thanx, Paul > Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > include/linux/ipc_namespace.h | 2 ++ > ipc/namespace.c | 17 +++++++++++++++-- > 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h b/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h > index c309f43bde45..a06a78c67f19 100644 > --- a/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h > +++ b/include/linux/ipc_namespace.h > @@ -68,6 +68,8 @@ struct ipc_namespace { > struct user_namespace *user_ns; > struct ucounts *ucounts; > > + struct llist_node mnt_llist; > + > struct ns_common ns; > } __randomize_layout; > > diff --git a/ipc/namespace.c b/ipc/namespace.c > index b3ca1476ca51..37d27e1b807a 100644 > --- a/ipc/namespace.c > +++ b/ipc/namespace.c > @@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ void free_ipcs(struct ipc_namespace *ns, struct ipc_ids *ids, > > static void free_ipc_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns) > { > + mq_put_mnt(ns); > sem_exit_ns(ns); > msg_exit_ns(ns); > shm_exit_ns(ns); > @@ -127,6 +128,17 @@ static void free_ipc_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns) > kfree(ns); > } > > +static LLIST_HEAD(free_ipc_list); > +static void free_ipc(struct work_struct *unused) > +{ > + struct llist_node *node = llist_del_all(&free_ipc_list); > + struct ipc_namespace *n, *t; > + > + llist_for_each_entry_safe(n, t, node, mnt_llist) > + free_ipc_ns(n); > +} > +static DECLARE_WORK(free_ipc_work, free_ipc); > + > /* > * put_ipc_ns - drop a reference to an ipc namespace. > * @ns: the namespace to put > @@ -148,8 +160,9 @@ void put_ipc_ns(struct ipc_namespace *ns) > if (refcount_dec_and_lock(&ns->count, &mq_lock)) { > mq_clear_sbinfo(ns); > spin_unlock(&mq_lock); > - mq_put_mnt(ns); > - free_ipc_ns(ns); > + > + if (llist_add(&ns->mnt_llist, &free_ipc_list)) > + schedule_work(&free_ipc_work); > } > } > > -- > 2.24.1 >