sched, cgroup: reorganize threadgroup locking

threadgroup_change_begin/end() are used to mark the beginning and end
of threadgroup modifying operations to allow code paths which require
a threadgroup to stay stable across blocking operations to synchronize
against those sections using threadgroup_lock/unlock().

It's currently implemented as a general mechanism in sched.h using
per-signal_struct rwsem; however, this never grew non-cgroup use cases
and becomes noop if !CONFIG_CGROUPS.  It turns out that cgroups is
gonna be better served with a different sycnrhonization scheme and is
a bit silly to keep cgroups specific details as a general mechanism.

What's general here is identifying the places where threadgroups are
modified.  This patch restructures threadgroup locking so that
threadgroup_change_begin/end() become a place where subsystems which
need to sycnhronize against threadgroup changes can hook into.

cgroup_threadgroup_change_begin/end() which operate on the
per-signal_struct rwsem are created and threadgroup_lock/unlock() are
moved to cgroup.c and made static.

This is pure reorganization which doesn't cause any functional
changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

1 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index b91177f93416..980b1f52f39f 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -848,6 +848,48 @@ 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;