sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem

Note: This commit was originally committed as d59cfc09c32a but got
      reverted by 0c986253b939 due to the performance regression from
      the percpu_rwsem write down/up operations added to cgroup task
      migration path.  percpu_rwsem changes which alleviate the
      performance issue are pending for v4.4-rc1 merge window.
      Re-apply.

The cgroup side of threadgroup locking uses signal_struct->group_rwsem
to synchronize against threadgroup changes.  This per-process rwsem
adds small overhead to thread creation, exit and exec paths, forces
cgroup code paths to do lock-verify-unlock-retry dance in a couple
places and makes it impossible to atomically perform operations across
multiple processes.

This patch replaces signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global
percpu_rwsem cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem which is cheaper on the reader
side and contained in cgroups proper.  This patch converts one-to-one.

This does make writer side heavier and lower the granularity; however,
cgroup process migration is a fairly cold path, we do want to optimize
thread operations over it and cgroup migration operations don't take
enough time for the lower granularity to matter.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/55F8097A.7000206@de.ibm.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

5 files changed, 45 insertions, 83 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
index 8492721b39be..4d8fcf2187dc 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
@@ -473,8 +473,31 @@ struct cgroup_subsys {
         unsigned int depends_on;
 };
 
-void cgroup_threadgroup_change_begin(struct task_struct *tsk);
-void cgroup_threadgroup_change_end(struct task_struct *tsk);
+extern struct percpu_rw_semaphore cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem;
+
+/**
+ * cgroup_threadgroup_change_begin - threadgroup exclusion for cgroups
+ * @tsk: target task
+ *
+ * Called from threadgroup_change_begin() and allows cgroup operations to
+ * synchronize against threadgroup changes using a percpu_rw_semaphore.
+ */
+static inline void cgroup_threadgroup_change_begin(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+        percpu_down_read(&cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem);
+}
+
+/**
+ * cgroup_threadgroup_change_end - threadgroup exclusion for cgroups
+ * @tsk: target task
+ *
+ * Called from threadgroup_change_end().  Counterpart of
+ * cgroup_threadcgroup_change_begin().
+ */
+static inline void cgroup_threadgroup_change_end(struct task_struct *tsk)
+{
+        percpu_up_read(&cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem);
+}
 
 #else   /* CONFIG_CGROUPS */
 
diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h
index e38681f4912d..d0b380ee7d67 100644
--- a/include/linux/init_task.h
+++ b/include/linux/init_task.h
@@ -25,13 +25,6 @@
 extern struct files_struct init_files;
 extern struct fs_struct init_fs;
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUPS
-#define INIT_GROUP_RWSEM(sig)                                           \
-        .group_rwsem = __RWSEM_INITIALIZER(sig.group_rwsem),
-#else
-#define INIT_GROUP_RWSEM(sig)
-#endif
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_CPUSETS
 #define INIT_CPUSET_SEQ(tsk)                                                    \
         .mems_allowed_seq = SEQCNT_ZERO(tsk.mems_allowed_seq),
@@ -64,7 +57,6 @@ extern struct fs_struct init_fs;
         INIT_PREV_CPUTIME(sig)                                          \
         .cred_guard_mutex =                                             \
                  __MUTEX_INITIALIZER(sig.cred_guard_mutex),             \
-        INIT_GROUP_RWSEM(sig)                                           \
 }
 
 extern struct nsproxy init_nsproxy;
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index b7b9501b41af..a4ab9daa387c 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -762,18 +762,6 @@ struct signal_struct {
         unsigned audit_tty_log_passwd;
         struct tty_audit_buf *tty_audit_buf;
 #endif
-#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUPS
-        /*
-         * group_rwsem prevents new tasks from entering the threadgroup and
-         * member tasks from exiting,a more specifically, setting of
-         * PF_EXITING.  fork and exit paths are protected with this rwsem
-         * using threadgroup_change_begin/end().  Users which require
-         * threadgroup to remain stable should use threadgroup_[un]lock()
-         * which also takes care of exec path.  Currently, cgroup is the
-         * only user.
-         */
-        struct rw_semaphore group_rwsem;
-#endif
 
         oom_flags_t oom_flags;
         short oom_score_adj;            /* OOM kill score adjustment */
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 2c9eae6ad970..115091efa889 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 #include <linux/slab.h>
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/rwsem.h>
+#include <linux/percpu-rwsem.h>
 #include <linux/string.h>
 #include <linux/sort.h>
 #include <linux/kmod.h>
@@ -103,6 +104,8 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(cgroup_idr_lock);
  */
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(release_agent_path_lock);
 
+struct percpu_rw_semaphore cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem;
+
 #define cgroup_assert_mutex_or_rcu_locked()                             \
         RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(!rcu_read_lock_held() &&                       \
                            !lockdep_is_held(&cgroup_mutex),             \
@@ -871,48 +874,6 @@ static struct css_set *find_css_set(struct css_set *old_cset,
         return cset;
 }
 
-void cgroup_threadgroup_change_begin(struct task_struct *tsk)
-{
-        down_read(&tsk->signal->group_rwsem);
-}
-
-void cgroup_threadgroup_change_end(struct task_struct *tsk)
-{
-        up_read(&tsk->signal->group_rwsem);
-}
-
-/**
- * threadgroup_lock - lock threadgroup
- * @tsk: member task of the threadgroup to lock
- *
- * Lock the threadgroup @tsk belongs to.  No new task is allowed to enter
- * and member tasks aren't allowed to exit (as indicated by PF_EXITING) or
- * change ->group_leader/pid.  This is useful for cases where the threadgroup
- * needs to stay stable across blockable operations.
- *
- * fork and exit explicitly call threadgroup_change_{begin|end}() for
- * synchronization.  While held, no new task will be added to threadgroup
- * and no existing live task will have its PF_EXITING set.
- *
- * de_thread() does threadgroup_change_{begin|end}() when a non-leader
- * sub-thread becomes a new leader.
- */
-static void threadgroup_lock(struct task_struct *tsk)
-{
-        down_write(&tsk->signal->group_rwsem);
-}
-
-/**
- * threadgroup_unlock - unlock threadgroup
- * @tsk: member task of the threadgroup to unlock
- *
- * Reverse threadgroup_lock().
- */
-static inline void threadgroup_unlock(struct task_struct *tsk)
-{
-        up_write(&tsk->signal->group_rwsem);
-}
-
 static struct cgroup_root *cgroup_root_from_kf(struct kernfs_root *kf_root)
 {
         struct cgroup *root_cgrp = kf_root->kn->priv;
@@ -2113,9 +2074,9 @@ static void cgroup_task_migrate(struct cgroup *old_cgrp,
         lockdep_assert_held(&css_set_rwsem);
 
         /*
-         * We are synchronized through threadgroup_lock() against PF_EXITING
-         * setting such that we can't race against cgroup_exit() changing the
-         * css_set to init_css_set and dropping the old one.
+         * We are synchronized through cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem against
+         * PF_EXITING setting such that we can't race against cgroup_exit()
+         * changing the css_set to init_css_set and dropping the old one.
          */
         WARN_ON_ONCE(tsk->flags & PF_EXITING);
         old_cset = task_css_set(tsk);
@@ -2172,10 +2133,11 @@ static void cgroup_migrate_finish(struct list_head *preloaded_csets)
  * @src_cset and add it to @preloaded_csets, which should later be cleaned
  * up by cgroup_migrate_finish().
  *
- * This function may be called without holding threadgroup_lock even if the
- * target is a process.  Threads may be created and destroyed but as long
- * as cgroup_mutex is not dropped, no new css_set can be put into play and
- * the preloaded css_sets are guaranteed to cover all migrations.
+ * This function may be called without holding cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem
+ * even if the target is a process.  Threads may be created and destroyed
+ * but as long as cgroup_mutex is not dropped, no new css_set can be put
+ * into play and the preloaded css_sets are guaranteed to cover all
+ * migrations.
  */
 static void cgroup_migrate_add_src(struct css_set *src_cset,
                                    struct cgroup *dst_cgrp,
@@ -2278,7 +2240,7 @@ err:
  * @threadgroup: whether @leader points to the whole process or a single task
  *
  * Migrate a process or task denoted by @leader to @cgrp.  If migrating a
- * process, the caller must be holding threadgroup_lock of @leader.  The
+ * process, the caller must be holding cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem.  The
  * caller is also responsible for invoking cgroup_migrate_add_src() and
  * cgroup_migrate_prepare_dst() on the targets before invoking this
  * function and following up with cgroup_migrate_finish().
@@ -2406,7 +2368,7 @@ out_release_tset:
  * @leader: the task or the leader of the threadgroup to be attached
  * @threadgroup: attach the whole threadgroup?
  *
- * Call holding cgroup_mutex and threadgroup_lock of @leader.
+ * Call holding cgroup_mutex and cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem.
  */
 static int cgroup_attach_task(struct cgroup *dst_cgrp,
                               struct task_struct *leader, bool threadgroup)
@@ -2528,7 +2490,7 @@ retry_find_task:
         get_task_struct(tsk);
         rcu_read_unlock();
 
-        threadgroup_lock(tsk);
+        percpu_down_write(&cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem);
         if (threadgroup) {
                 if (!thread_group_leader(tsk)) {
                         /*
@@ -2538,7 +2500,7 @@ retry_find_task:
                          * try again; this is
                          * "double-double-toil-and-trouble-check locking".
                          */
-                        threadgroup_unlock(tsk);
+                        percpu_up_write(&cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem);
                         put_task_struct(tsk);
                         goto retry_find_task;
                 }
@@ -2548,7 +2510,7 @@ retry_find_task:
         if (!ret)
                 ret = cgroup_attach_task(cgrp, tsk, threadgroup);
 
-        threadgroup_unlock(tsk);
+        percpu_up_write(&cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem);
 
         put_task_struct(tsk);
 out_unlock_cgroup:
@@ -2751,17 +2713,17 @@ static int cgroup_update_dfl_csses(struct cgroup *cgrp)
                                 goto out_finish;
                         last_task = task;
 
-                        threadgroup_lock(task);
+                        percpu_down_write(&cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem);
                         /* raced against de_thread() from another thread? */
                         if (!thread_group_leader(task)) {
-                                threadgroup_unlock(task);
+                                percpu_up_write(&cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem);
                                 put_task_struct(task);
                                 continue;
                         }
 
                         ret = cgroup_migrate(src_cset->dfl_cgrp, task, true);
 
-                        threadgroup_unlock(task);
+                        percpu_up_write(&cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem);
                         put_task_struct(task);
 
                         if (WARN(ret, "cgroup: failed to update controllers for the default hierarchy (%d), further operations may crash or hang\n", ret))
@@ -5083,6 +5045,7 @@ int __init cgroup_init(void)
         unsigned long key;
         int ssid, err;
 
+        BUG_ON(percpu_init_rwsem(&cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem));
         BUG_ON(cgroup_init_cftypes(NULL, cgroup_dfl_base_files));
         BUG_ON(cgroup_init_cftypes(NULL, cgroup_legacy_base_files));
 
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 2845623fb582..7d5f0f118a63 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1149,10 +1149,6 @@ static int copy_signal(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
         tty_audit_fork(sig);
         sched_autogroup_fork(sig);
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_CGROUPS
-        init_rwsem(&sig->group_rwsem);
-#endif
-
         sig->oom_score_adj = current->signal->oom_score_adj;
         sig->oom_score_adj_min = current->signal->oom_score_adj_min;