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

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>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index dc24dec60232..b9b824bf8f6b 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -938,6 +938,7 @@ config NUMA_BALANCING_DEFAULT_ENABLED
 menuconfig CGROUPS
         bool "Control Group support"
         select KERNFS
+        select PERCPU_RWSEM
         help
           This option adds support for grouping sets of processes together, for
           use with process control subsystems such as Cpusets, CFS, memory