[Devel] [PATCH 2/2 v3] ve/cgroup: Added pointers to owning ve to root cgroups

Kirill Tkhai ktkhai at virtuozzo.com
Tue Mar 24 16:05:38 MSK 2020


On 24.03.2020 15:13, Valeriy Vdovin wrote:
> Yes, it is possible in theory. I'll patch this place. Thanks for observation.

AFAIS, simple get_ve() under mutex should be enough.

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> *From:* Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai at virtuozzo.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 24, 2020 2:16 PM
> *To:* Valeriy Vdovin <Valeriy.Vdovin at virtuozzo.com>; devel at openvz.org <devel at openvz.org>; Konstantin Khorenko <khorenko at virtuozzo.com>; Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov at virtuozzo.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [PATCH 2/2 v3] ve/cgroup: Added pointers to owning ve to root cgroups
>  
> On 24.03.2020 13:46, Valeriy Vdovin wrote:
>> Follow-up patch to per-cgroup release_agent property. release_agent
>> notifications are spawned from a special kthread, running under ve0. But
>> newly spawned tasks should run under their own ve context. Easy way to
>> pass this information to a spawning thread is by adding 've_owner' field
>> to a root cgroup. At notification any cgroup can be walked upwards to
>> it's root and get ve_owner from there. ve_owner is initialized at container
>> start, that's when we know all cgroup ve roots for free. For ve0 roots
>> we don't need ve_owner field set, because we can always get pointer to ve0.
>> Only place where we can detch ve_owner knowledge from root ve cgroups is
>> at cgroup_exit for ve->init_task, because that's that's the last time, when
>> ve->init_task is related to it's ve root cgroups (see cgroup_exit comments).
>> 
>> https://jira.sw.ru/browse/PSBM-83887
>> Signed-off-by: Valeriy Vdovin <valeriy.vdovin at virtuozzo.com>
>> ---
>>  include/linux/cgroup.h |  3 +++
>>  kernel/cgroup.c        | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 48 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h
>> index 5e289fc..34fc017 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/cgroup.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h
>> @@ -291,6 +291,9 @@ struct cgroup {
>>        struct simple_xattrs xattrs;
>>        u64 subgroups_limit;
>>  
>> +     /* ve_owner, responsible for running release agent. */
>> +     struct ve_struct *ve_owner;
>> +
>>        /*
>>         * Per-cgroup path to release agent binary for release
>>         * notifications.
>> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
>> index d1d4605..2500095 100644
>> --- a/kernel/cgroup.c
>> +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
>> @@ -4352,6 +4352,7 @@ int cgroup_mark_ve_root(struct ve_struct *ve)
>>        mutex_lock(&cgroup_mutex);
>>        for_each_active_root(root) {
>>                cgrp = task_cgroup_from_root(ve->init_task, root);
>> +             cgrp->ve_owner = ve;
>>                set_bit(CGRP_VE_ROOT, &cgrp->flags);
>>                err = cgroup_add_file_on_mark_ve(cgrp);
>>                if (err)
>> @@ -4363,6 +4364,20 @@ int cgroup_mark_ve_root(struct ve_struct *ve)
>>        return err;
>>  }
>>  
>> +static void cgroup_unbind_roots_from_ve(struct ve_struct *ve)
>> +{
>> +     struct cgroup *cgrp;
>> +     struct cgroupfs_root *root;
>> +
>> +     mutex_lock(&cgroup_mutex);
>> +     for_each_active_root(root) {
>> +             cgrp = task_cgroup_from_root(ve->init_task, root);
>> +             BUG_ON(!cgrp->ve_owner);
>> +             cgrp->ve_owner = NULL;
>> +     }
>> +     mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
>> +}
>> +
>>  struct cgroup *cgroup_get_ve_root(struct cgroup *cgrp)
>>  {
>>        struct cgroup *ve_root = NULL;
>> @@ -5401,6 +5416,14 @@ void cgroup_exit(struct task_struct *tsk, int run_callbacks)
>>        int i;
>>  
>>        /*
>> +      * Detect that the task in question is ve->init_task
>> +      * if so, unbind all cgroups that want to be released under
>> +      * this ve.
>> +      */
>> +     if (!ve_is_super(tsk->task_ve) && tsk == tsk->task_ve->init_task)
>> +             cgroup_unbind_roots_from_ve(tsk->task_ve);
>> +
>> +     /*
>>         * Unlink from the css_set task list if necessary.
>>         * Optimistically check cg_list before taking
>>         * css_set_lock
>> @@ -5493,6 +5516,7 @@ static void cgroup_release_agent(struct work_struct *work)
>>        raw_spin_lock(&release_list_lock);
>>        while (!list_empty(&release_list)) {
>>                char *argv[3], *envp[3];
>> +             struct ve_struct *ve = NULL;
>>                int i, err;
>>                const char *release_agent;
>>                char *pathbuf = NULL, *agentbuf = NULL;
>> @@ -5507,8 +5531,24 @@ static void cgroup_release_agent(struct work_struct *work)
>>                        goto continue_free;
>>                if (__cgroup_path(cgrp, pathbuf, PAGE_SIZE, true) < 0)
>>                        goto continue_free;
>> +
>> +             /*
>> +              * Deduce under which VE we are going to spawn nofitier
>> +              * binary. Non-root VE has it's VE-local root cgroup,
>> +              * marked with VE_ROOT flag. It has non-NULL ve_owner
>> +              * set during cgroup_mark_ve_root.
>> +              * VE0 root cgroup does not need ve_owner field, because
>> +              * it's ve is ve0. Non-VE root cgroup does not have a parent.
>> +              */
>>                root_cgrp = cgroup_get_local_root(cgrp);
>> +             if (root_cgrp->parent == NULL)
>> +                     ve = &ve0;
>> +             else
>> +                     ve = root_cgrp->ve_owner;
>> +             if (!ve)
>> +                     goto continue_free;
>>                rcu_read_lock();
>> +
>>                release_agent = cgroup_release_agent_path(root_cgrp);
>>                if (release_agent)
>>                        agentbuf = kstrdup(release_agent, GFP_KERNEL);
>> @@ -5531,7 +5571,12 @@ static void cgroup_release_agent(struct work_struct *work)
>>                 * since the exec could involve hitting disk and hence
>>                 * be a slow process */
>>                mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_VE
>> +             err = call_usermodehelper_fns_ve(ve, argv[0], argv,
>> +                     envp, UMH_WAIT_EXEC, NULL, NULL, NULL);
>> +#else
>>                err = call_usermodehelper(argv[0], argv, envp, UMH_WAIT_EXEC);
>> +#endif
>>                if (err < 0)
>>                        pr_warn_ratelimited("cgroup release_agent "
>>                                            "%s %s failed: %d\n",
> 
> Is there a race like the below?
> 
> [cpu 0]                                                    [cpu1]
> cgroup_release_agent()
>   mutex_lock(&cgroup_mutex)
>   ve = root_cgrp->ve_owner
>   mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex)
> 
>                                                            cgroup_unbind_roots_from_ve(ve)
>                                                              cgroup->ve_owner = NULL;
>                                                            css_put(ve)  <--- final put
> 
> 
>   call_usermodehelper_fns_ve(ve)
>     get_ve(ve)   <--- gets zero counter



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