linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] sched/urgent for 5.17-rc4

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Date:   Mon, 14 Feb 2022 20:35:54 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Tadeusz Struk <tadeusz.struk@...aro.org>,
        x86-ml <x86@...nel.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        zhangqiao22@...wei.com, dietmar.eggemann@....com
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] sched/urgent for 5.17-rc4

On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 09:17:12AM -1000, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Peter.
> 
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 10:16:57AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> > index d75a528f7b21..05faebafe2b5 100644
> > --- a/kernel/fork.c
> > +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> > @@ -2266,6 +2266,13 @@ static __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
> >  	if (retval)
> >  		goto bad_fork_put_pidfd;
> >  
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Now that the cgroups are pinned, re-clone the parent cgroup and put
> > +	 * the new task on the correct runqueue. All this *before* the task
> > +	 * becomes visible.
> > +	 */
> > +	sched_cgroup_fork(p, args);
> 
> Would it be less confusing to comment that this isn't ->can_fork() because
> scheduler task_group needs to be initialized for autogroup even when cgroup
> is disabled and maybe name it sched_cgroup_can_fork() even if it always
> succeeds?

So there's two things that need doing; the re-cloning of the task_group
thing, but also calling of __set_task_cpu() which sets up the proper
runqueue links.

The first is CGroup only, and *could* in theory be done in ->can_fork(),
but the second needs to be done unconditionally, and it doesn't make
much sense to split this up.

I actually tried, but it made the patch bigger/uglier -- but maybe I
didn't try hard enough.

> > +void sched_cgroup_fork(struct task_struct *p, struct kernel_clone_args *kargs)
> >  {
> >  	unsigned long flags;
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED
> > -	struct task_group *tg;
> > -#endif
> >  
> > +	/*
> > +	 * Because we're not yet on the pid-hash, p->pi_lock isn't strictly
> > +	 * required yet, but lockdep gets upset if rules are violated.
> > +	 */
> >  	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&p->pi_lock, flags);
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED
> > -	tg = container_of(kargs->cset->subsys[cpu_cgrp_id],
> > -			  struct task_group, css);
> > -	p->sched_task_group = autogroup_task_group(p, tg);
> > +	if (1) {
> > +		struct task_group *tg;
> > +		tg = container_of(kargs->cset->subsys[cpu_cgrp_id],
> > +				  struct task_group, css);
> > +		tg = autogroup_task_group(p, tg);
> > +		p->sched_task_group = autogroup_task_group(p, tg);
> > +	}
> 
> I suppose the double autogroup_task_group() call is unintentional?

Yeah, that's a silly fail. Will ammend.

> Otherwise, looks good to me. The only requirement from cgroup side is that
> the membership should be initialized between ->can_fork() and ->fork()
> inclusively, and sans autogroup this would have been done as a part of
> ->can_fork() so the proposed change makes sense to me.

Thanks! I suppose I should go write me a Changelog then... assuming it
actually works :-)