linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] sched/task: Add the put_task_struct_atomic

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Date:   Mon, 30 Jan 2023 14:46:54 +0000
From:   Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com>
To:     Wander Lairson Costa <wander@...hat.com>
Cc:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@...aro.org>,
        Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@....com>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Ben Segall <bsegall@...gle.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...hat.com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>,
        Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
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        open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paul McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] sched/task: Add the put_task_struct_atomic_safe
 function

On 30/01/23 08:49, Wander Lairson Costa wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 12:55 PM Valentin Schneider <vschneid@...hat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 23/01/23 14:24, Wander Lairson Costa wrote:
>> > Therefore (if I am correct in my assumption), it would make sense for
>> > only some call sites to pay the overhead price for it. But this is
>> > just a guess, and I have no evidence to support my claim.
>>
>> My worry here is that it's easy to miss problematic callgraphs, and it's
>> potentially easy for new ones to creep in. Having a solution within
>> put_task_struct() itself would prevent that.
>>
>
> We could add a WARN_ON statement in put_task_struct() to detect such cases.
>

Anyone running their kernel with DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP should be able to
detect misuse, but it doesn't change that some callgraphs will only
materialize under certain hardware/configuration combos.

>> Another thing, if you look at release_task_stack(), it either caches the
>> outgoing stack for later use, or frees it via RCU (regardless of
>> PREEMPT_RT). Perhaps we could follow that and just always punt the freeing
>> of the task struct to RCU?
>>
>
> That's a point. Do you mean doing that even for !PREEMPT_RT?

Could be worth a try? I think because of the cache thing the task stack is
a bit less aggressive wrt RCU callback processing, but at a quick glance I
don't see any fundamental reason why the task_struct itself can't be given
the same treatment.