1. 13 Dec, 2011 3 commits
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      threadgroup: extend threadgroup_lock() to cover exit and exec · 77e4ef99
      Tejun Heo authored
      threadgroup_lock() protected only protected against new addition to
      the threadgroup, which was inherently somewhat incomplete and
      problematic for its only user cgroup.  On-going migration could race
      against exec and exit leading to interesting problems - the symmetry
      between various attach methods, task exiting during method execution,
      ->exit() racing against attach methods, migrating task switching basic
      properties during exec and so on.
      
      This patch extends threadgroup_lock() such that it protects against
      all three threadgroup altering operations - fork, exit and exec.  For
      exit, threadgroup_change_begin/end() calls are added to exit_signals
      around assertion of PF_EXITING.  For exec, threadgroup_[un]lock() are
      updated to also grab and release cred_guard_mutex.
      
      With this change, threadgroup_lock() guarantees that the target
      threadgroup will remain stable - no new task will be added, no new
      PF_EXITING will be set and exec won't happen.
      
      The next patch will update cgroup so that it can take full advantage
      of this change.
      
      -v2: beefed up comment as suggested by Frederic.
      
      -v3: narrowed scope of protection in exit path as suggested by
           Frederic.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
      Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      77e4ef99
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      threadgroup: rename signal->threadgroup_fork_lock to ->group_rwsem · 257058ae
      Tejun Heo authored
      Make the following renames to prepare for extension of threadgroup
      locking.
      
      * s/signal->threadgroup_fork_lock/signal->group_rwsem/
      * s/threadgroup_fork_read_lock()/threadgroup_change_begin()/
      * s/threadgroup_fork_read_unlock()/threadgroup_change_end()/
      * s/threadgroup_fork_write_lock()/threadgroup_lock()/
      * s/threadgroup_fork_write_unlock()/threadgroup_unlock()/
      
      This patch doesn't cause any behavior change.
      
      -v2: Rename threadgroup_change_done() to threadgroup_change_end() per
           KAMEZAWA's suggestion.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
      257058ae
    • Tejun Heo's avatar
      cgroup: add cgroup_root_mutex · e25e2cbb
      Tejun Heo authored
      cgroup wants to make threadgroup stable while modifying cgroup
      hierarchies which will introduce locking dependency on
      cred_guard_mutex from cgroup_mutex.  This unfortunately completes
      circular dependency.
      
       A. cgroup_mutex -> cred_guard_mutex -> s_type->i_mutex_key -> namespace_sem
       B. namespace_sem -> cgroup_mutex
      
      B is from cgroup_show_options() and this patch breaks it by
      introducing another mutex cgroup_root_mutex which nests inside
      cgroup_mutex and protects cgroupfs_root.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarLi Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
      Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
      e25e2cbb
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