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authorMiao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>2009-01-16 10:24:10 +0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-01-19 02:44:00 +0100
commitf90d4118bacef87894621a3e8aba853fa0c89abc (patch)
treed09a52848f5d82fc3944818f62166fee23fabc66 /kernel
parentf3b8436ad9a8ad36b3c9fa1fe030c7f38e5d3d0b (diff)
cpuset: fix possible deadlock in async_rebuild_sched_domains
Lockdep reported some possible circular locking info when we tested cpuset on NUMA/fake NUMA box. ======================================================= [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.29-rc1-00224-ga652504 #111 ------------------------------------------------------- bash/2968 is trying to acquire lock: (events){--..}, at: [<ffffffff8024c8cd>] flush_work+0x24/0xd8 but task is already holding lock: (cgroup_mutex){--..}, at: [<ffffffff8026ad1e>] cgroup_lock_live_group+0x12/0x29 which lock already depends on the new lock. ...... ------------------------------------------------------- Steps to reproduce: # mkdir /dev/cpuset # mount -t cpuset xxx /dev/cpuset # mkdir /dev/cpuset/0 # echo 0 > /dev/cpuset/0/cpus # echo 0 > /dev/cpuset/0/mems # echo 1 > /dev/cpuset/0/memory_migrate # cat /dev/zero > /dev/null & # echo $! > /dev/cpuset/0/tasks This is because async_rebuild_sched_domains has the following lock sequence: run_workqueue(async_rebuild_sched_domains) -> do_rebuild_sched_domains -> cgroup_lock But, attaching tasks when memory_migrate is set has following: cgroup_lock_live_group(cgroup_tasks_write) -> do_migrate_pages -> flush_work This patch fixes it by using a separate workqueue thread. Signed-off-by: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/cpuset.c13
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c
index a85678865c5..f76db9dcaa0 100644
--- a/kernel/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
@@ -61,6 +61,14 @@
#include <linux/cgroup.h>
/*
+ * Workqueue for cpuset related tasks.
+ *
+ * Using kevent workqueue may cause deadlock when memory_migrate
+ * is set. So we create a separate workqueue thread for cpuset.
+ */
+static struct workqueue_struct *cpuset_wq;
+
+/*
* Tracks how many cpusets are currently defined in system.
* When there is only one cpuset (the root cpuset) we can
* short circuit some hooks.
@@ -831,7 +839,7 @@ static DECLARE_WORK(rebuild_sched_domains_work, do_rebuild_sched_domains);
*/
static void async_rebuild_sched_domains(void)
{
- schedule_work(&rebuild_sched_domains_work);
+ queue_work(cpuset_wq, &rebuild_sched_domains_work);
}
/*
@@ -2111,6 +2119,9 @@ void __init cpuset_init_smp(void)
hotcpu_notifier(cpuset_track_online_cpus, 0);
hotplug_memory_notifier(cpuset_track_online_nodes, 10);
+
+ cpuset_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("cpuset");
+ BUG_ON(!cpuset_wq);
}
/**