linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 54/69] mm: memcontrol: use special workqueue for creating per-memcg caches

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Date:   Wed, 19 Apr 2017 16:43:10 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        Doug Smythies <dsmythies@...us.net>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 54/69] mm: memcontrol: use special workqueue for creating per-memcg caches

4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>

commit 13583c3d3224508582ec03d881d0b68dd3ee8e10 upstream.

Creating a lot of cgroups at the same time might stall all worker
threads with kmem cache creation works, because kmem cache creation is
done with the slab_mutex held.  The problem was amplified by commits
801faf0db894 ("mm/slab: lockless decision to grow cache") in case of
SLAB and 81ae6d03952c ("mm/slub.c: replace kick_all_cpus_sync() with
synchronize_sched() in kmem_cache_shrink()") in case of SLUB, which
increased the maximal time the slab_mutex can be held.

To prevent that from happening, let's use a special ordered single
threaded workqueue for kmem cache creation.  This shouldn't introduce
any functional changes regarding how kmem caches are created, as the
work function holds the global slab_mutex during its whole runtime
anyway, making it impossible to run more than one work at a time.  By
using a single threaded workqueue, we just avoid creating a thread per
each work.  Ordering is required to avoid a situation when a cgroup's
work is put off indefinitely because there are other cgroups to serve,
in other words to guarantee fairness.

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172981
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161004131417.GC1862@esperanza
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>
Reported-by: Doug Smythies <dsmythies@...us.net>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 mm/memcontrol.c |   15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2152,6 +2152,8 @@ struct memcg_kmem_cache_create_work {
 	struct work_struct work;
 };
 
+static struct workqueue_struct *memcg_kmem_cache_create_wq;
+
 static void memcg_kmem_cache_create_func(struct work_struct *w)
 {
 	struct memcg_kmem_cache_create_work *cw =
@@ -2183,7 +2185,7 @@ static void __memcg_schedule_kmem_cache_
 	cw->cachep = cachep;
 	INIT_WORK(&cw->work, memcg_kmem_cache_create_func);
 
-	schedule_work(&cw->work);
+	queue_work(memcg_kmem_cache_create_wq, &cw->work);
 }
 
 static void memcg_schedule_kmem_cache_create(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
@@ -5786,6 +5788,17 @@ static int __init mem_cgroup_init(void)
 {
 	int cpu, node;
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_SLOB
+	/*
+	 * Kmem cache creation is mostly done with the slab_mutex held,
+	 * so use a special workqueue to avoid stalling all worker
+	 * threads in case lots of cgroups are created simultaneously.
+	 */
+	memcg_kmem_cache_create_wq =
+		alloc_ordered_workqueue("memcg_kmem_cache_create", 0);
+	BUG_ON(!memcg_kmem_cache_create_wq);
+#endif
+
 	hotcpu_notifier(memcg_cpu_hotplug_callback, 0);
 
 	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)