4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx> commit 568ac888215c7fb2fabe8ea739b00ec3c1f5d440 upstream. cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem is acquired in read mode during process exit and fork. It is also grabbed in write mode during __cgroups_proc_write(). I've recently run into a scenario with lots of memory pressure and OOM and I am beginning to see systemd __switch_to+0x1f8/0x350 __schedule+0x30c/0x990 schedule+0x48/0xc0 percpu_down_write+0x114/0x170 __cgroup_procs_write.isra.12+0xb8/0x3c0 cgroup_file_write+0x74/0x1a0 kernfs_fop_write+0x188/0x200 __vfs_write+0x6c/0xe0 vfs_write+0xc0/0x230 SyS_write+0x6c/0x110 system_call+0x38/0xb4 This thread is waiting on the reader of cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem to exit. The reader itself is under memory pressure and has gone into reclaim after fork. There are times the reader also ends up waiting on oom_lock as well. __switch_to+0x1f8/0x350 __schedule+0x30c/0x990 schedule+0x48/0xc0 jbd2_log_wait_commit+0xd4/0x180 ext4_evict_inode+0x88/0x5c0 evict+0xf8/0x2a0 dispose_list+0x50/0x80 prune_icache_sb+0x6c/0x90 super_cache_scan+0x190/0x210 shrink_slab.part.15+0x22c/0x4c0 shrink_zone+0x288/0x3c0 do_try_to_free_pages+0x1dc/0x590 try_to_free_pages+0xdc/0x260 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x72c/0xc90 alloc_pages_current+0xb4/0x1a0 page_table_alloc+0xc0/0x170 __pte_alloc+0x58/0x1f0 copy_page_range+0x4ec/0x950 copy_process.isra.5+0x15a0/0x1870 _do_fork+0xa8/0x4b0 ppc_clone+0x8/0xc In the meanwhile, all processes exiting/forking are blocked almost stalling the system. This patch moves the threadgroup_change_begin from before cgroup_fork() to just before cgroup_canfork(). There is no nee to worry about threadgroup changes till the task is actually added to the threadgroup. This avoids having to call reclaim with cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem held. tj: Subject and description edits. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/fork.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -1369,7 +1369,6 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process( p->real_start_time = ktime_get_boot_ns(); p->io_context = NULL; p->audit_context = NULL; - threadgroup_change_begin(current); cgroup_fork(p); #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA p->mempolicy = mpol_dup(p->mempolicy); @@ -1521,6 +1520,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process( INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->thread_group); p->task_works = NULL; + threadgroup_change_begin(current); /* * Ensure that the cgroup subsystem policies allow the new process to be * forked. It should be noted the the new process's css_set can be changed @@ -1621,6 +1621,7 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process( bad_fork_cancel_cgroup: cgroup_cancel_fork(p, cgrp_ss_priv); bad_fork_free_pid: + threadgroup_change_end(current); if (pid != &init_struct_pid) free_pid(pid); bad_fork_cleanup_io: @@ -1651,7 +1652,6 @@ bad_fork_cleanup_policy: mpol_put(p->mempolicy); bad_fork_cleanup_threadgroup_lock: #endif - threadgroup_change_end(current); delayacct_tsk_free(p); bad_fork_cleanup_count: atomic_dec(&p->cred->user->processes); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html