sched: Kill the broken and deadlockable cpuset_lock/cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked code

This patch just states the fact the cpusets/cpuhotplug interaction is
broken and removes the deadlockable code which only pretends to work.

- cpuset_lock() doesn't really work. It is needed for
  cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked() but we can't take this lock in
  try_to_wake_up()->select_fallback_rq() path.

- cpuset_lock() is deadlockable. Suppose that a task T bound to CPU takes
  callback_mutex. If cpu_down(CPU) happens before T drops callback_mutex
  stop_machine() preempts T, then migration_call(CPU_DEAD) tries to take
  cpuset_lock() and hangs forever because CPU is already dead and thus
  T can't be scheduled.

- cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked() is deadlockable too. It takes task_lock()
  which is not irq-safe, but try_to_wake_up() can be called from irq.

Kill them, and change select_fallback_rq() to use cpu_possible_mask, like
we currently do without CONFIG_CPUSETS.

Also, with or without this patch, with or without CONFIG_CPUSETS, the
callers of select_fallback_rq() can race with each other or with
set_cpus_allowed() pathes.

The subsequent patches try to to fix these problems.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100315091003.GA9123@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 26 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/cpuset.c b/kernel/cpuset.c
index d10946748ec..9a747f56d58 100644
--- a/kernel/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
@@ -2182,19 +2182,10 @@ void __init cpuset_init_smp(void)
 void cpuset_cpus_allowed(struct task_struct *tsk, struct cpumask *pmask)
 {
         mutex_lock(&callback_mutex);
-        cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(tsk, pmask);
-        mutex_unlock(&callback_mutex);
-}
-
-/**
- * cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked - return cpus_allowed mask from a tasks cpuset.
- * Must be called with callback_mutex held.
- **/
-void cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(struct task_struct *tsk, struct cpumask *pmask)
-{
         task_lock(tsk);
         guarantee_online_cpus(task_cs(tsk), pmask);
         task_unlock(tsk);
+        mutex_unlock(&callback_mutex);
 }
 
 void cpuset_init_current_mems_allowed(void)
@@ -2383,22 +2374,6 @@ int __cpuset_node_allowed_hardwall(int node, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 }
 
 /**
- * cpuset_lock - lock out any changes to cpuset structures
- *
- * The out of memory (oom) code needs to mutex_lock cpusets
- * from being changed while it scans the tasklist looking for a
- * task in an overlapping cpuset.  Expose callback_mutex via this
- * cpuset_lock() routine, so the oom code can lock it, before
- * locking the task list.  The tasklist_lock is a spinlock, so
- * must be taken inside callback_mutex.
- */
-
-void cpuset_lock(void)
-{
-        mutex_lock(&callback_mutex);
-}
-
-/**
  * cpuset_unlock - release lock on cpuset changes
  *
  * Undo the lock taken in a previous cpuset_lock() call.