linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 5/7] cgroup: introduce cgroup namespaces

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Date:	Mon, 3 Nov 2014 15:42:29 -0800
From:	Aditya Kali <adityakali@...gle.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...ntu.com>,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Rohit Jnagal <jnagal@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 5/7] cgroup: introduce cgroup namespaces

On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
> Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Aditya Kali <adityakali@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>> +static void *cgroupns_get(struct task_struct *task)
>>> +{
>>> +       struct cgroup_namespace *ns = NULL;
>>> +       struct nsproxy *nsproxy;
>>> +
>>> +       rcu_read_lock();
>>> +       nsproxy = task->nsproxy;
>>> +       if (nsproxy) {
>>> +               ns = nsproxy->cgroup_ns;
>>> +               get_cgroup_ns(ns);
>>> +       }
>>> +       rcu_read_unlock();
>>
>> How is this correct?  Other namespaces do it too, so it Must Be
>> Correct (tm), but I don't understand.  What is RCU protecting?
>
> The code is not correct.  The code needs to use task_lock.
>
> RCU used to protect nsproxy, and now task_lock protects nsproxy.
> For the reasons of of all of this I refer you to the commit
> that changed this, and the comment in nsproxy.h
>

My bad. This should be under task_lock. I will fix it.

> commit 728dba3a39c66b3d8ac889ddbe38b5b1c264aec3
> Author: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
> Date:   Mon Feb 3 19:13:49 2014 -0800
>
>     namespaces: Use task_lock and not rcu to protect nsproxy
>
>     The synchronous syncrhonize_rcu in switch_task_namespaces makes setns
>     a sufficiently expensive system call that people have complained.
>
>     Upon inspect nsproxy no longer needs rcu protection for remote reads.
>     remote reads are rare.  So optimize for same process reads and write
>     by switching using rask_lock instead.
>
>     This yields a simpler to understand lock, and a faster setns system call.
>
>     In particular this fixes a performance regression observed
>     by Rafael David Tinoco <rafael.tinoco@...onical.com>.
>
>     This is effectively a revert of Pavel Emelyanov's commit
>     cf7b708c8d1d7a27736771bcf4c457b332b0f818 Make access to task's nsproxy lighter
>     from 2007.  The race this originialy fixed no longer exists as
>     do_notify_parent uses task_active_pid_ns(parent) instead of
>     parent->nsproxy.
>
>     Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
>
> Eric



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Aditya
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