Because accounting resources for the root cgroup sometimes incurs
measureable overhead for workloads which don't care about cgroup and
often ends up calculating a number which is available elsewhere in a
slightly different form, cgroup is not in the business of providing
system-wide statistics. The pids controller which was introduced
recently was exposing "pids.current" at the root. This patch disable
accounting for root cgroup and removes the file from the root
directory.
While this is a userland visible behavior change, pids has been
available only in one version and was badly broken there, so I don't
think this will be noticeable. If it turns out to be a problem, we
can reinstate it for v1 hierarchies.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Consider the following v2 hierarchy.
P0 (+memory) --- P1 (-memory) --- A
\- B
P0 has memory enabled in its subtree_control while P1 doesn't. If
both A and B contain processes, they would belong to the memory css of
P1. Now if memory is enabled on P1's subtree_control, memory csses
should be created on both A and B and A's processes should be moved to
the former and B's processes the latter. IOW, enabling controllers
can cause atomic migrations into different csses.
The core cgroup migration logic has been updated accordingly but the
controller migration methods haven't and still assume that all tasks
migrate to a single target css; furthermore, the methods were fed the
css in which subtree_control was updated which is the parent of the
target csses. pids controller depends on the migration methods to
move charges and this made the controller attribute charges to the
wrong csses often triggering the following warning by driving a
counter negative.
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1 at kernel/cgroup_pids.c:97 pids_cancel.constprop.6+0x31/0x40()
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: systemd Not tainted 4.4.0-rc1+ #29
...
ffffffff81f65382 ffff88007c043b90 ffffffff81551ffc 0000000000000000
ffff88007c043bc8 ffffffff810de202 ffff88007a752000 ffff88007a29ab00
ffff88007c043c80 ffff88007a1d8400 0000000000000001 ffff88007c043bd8
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81551ffc>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x82
[<ffffffff810de202>] warn_slowpath_common+0x82/0xc0
[<ffffffff810de2fa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[<ffffffff8118e031>] pids_cancel.constprop.6+0x31/0x40
[<ffffffff8118e0fd>] pids_can_attach+0x6d/0xf0
[<ffffffff81188a4c>] cgroup_taskset_migrate+0x6c/0x330
[<ffffffff81188e05>] cgroup_migrate+0xf5/0x190
[<ffffffff81189016>] cgroup_attach_task+0x176/0x200
[<ffffffff8118949d>] __cgroup_procs_write+0x2ad/0x460
[<ffffffff81189684>] cgroup_procs_write+0x14/0x20
[<ffffffff811854e5>] cgroup_file_write+0x35/0x1c0
[<ffffffff812e26f1>] kernfs_fop_write+0x141/0x190
[<ffffffff81265f88>] __vfs_write+0x28/0xe0
[<ffffffff812666fc>] vfs_write+0xac/0x1a0
[<ffffffff81267019>] SyS_write+0x49/0xb0
[<ffffffff81bcef32>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x76
This patch fixes the bug by removing @css parameter from the three
migration methods, ->can_attach, ->cancel_attach() and ->attach() and
updating cgroup_taskset iteration helpers also return the destination
css in addition to the task being migrated. All controllers are
updated accordingly.
* Controllers which don't care whether there are one or multiple
target csses can be converted trivially. cpu, io, freezer, perf,
netclassid and netprio fall in this category.
* cpuset's current implementation assumes that there's single source
and destination and thus doesn't support v2 hierarchy already. The
only change made by this patchset is how that single destination css
is obtained.
* memory migration path already doesn't do anything on v2. How the
single destination css is obtained is updated and the prep stage of
mem_cgroup_can_attach() is reordered to accomodate the change.
* pids is the only controller which was affected by this bug. It now
correctly handles multi-destination migrations and no longer causes
counter underflow from incorrect accounting.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Now that we know that the forking task can't migrate amd the child is always
moved to the same cgroup by cgroup_post_fork()->css_set_move_task() we can
change pids_can_fork() and pids_cancel_fork() to just use task_css(current).
And since we no longer need to pin this css, we can remove pid_fork().
Note: the patch uses task_css_check(true), perhaps it makes sense to add a
helper or change task_css_set_check() to take cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem into
account.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
If the new child migrates to another cgroup before cgroup_post_fork() calls
subsys->fork(), then both pids_can_attach() and pids_fork() will do the same
pids_uncharge(old_pids) + pids_charge(pids) sequence twice.
Change copy_process() to call threadgroup_change_begin/threadgroup_change_end
unconditionally. percpu_down_read() is cheap and this allows other cleanups,
see the next changes.
Also, this way we can unify cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem and dup_mmap_sem.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
pids controller is completely broken in that it uncharges when a task
exits allowing zombies to escape resource control. With the recent
updates, cgroup core now maintains cgroup association till task free
and pids controller can be fixed by uncharging on free instead of
exit.
This patch adds cgroup_subsys->free() method and update pids
controller to use it instead of ->exit() for uncharging.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
cgroup_exit() is called when a task exits and disassociates the
exiting task from its cgroups and half-attach it to the root cgroup.
This is unnecessary and undesirable.
No controller actually needs an exiting task to be disassociated with
non-root cgroups. Both cpu and perf_event controllers update the
association to the root cgroup from their exit callbacks just to keep
consistent with the cgroup core behavior.
Also, this disassociation makes it difficult to track resources held
by zombies or determine where the zombies came from. Currently, pids
controller is completely broken as it uncharges on exit and zombies
always escape the resource restriction. With cgroup association being
reset on exit, fixing it is pretty painful.
There's no reason to reset cgroup membership on exit. The zombie can
be removed from its css_set so that it doesn't show up on
"cgroup.procs" and thus can't be migrated or interfere with cgroup
removal. It can still pin and point to the css_set so that its cgroup
membership is maintained. This patch makes cgroup core keep zombies
associated with their cgroups at the time of exit.
* Previous patches decoupled populated_cnt tracking from css_set
lifetime, so a dying task can be simply unlinked from its css_set
while pinning and pointing to the css_set. This keeps css_set
association from task side alive while hiding it from "cgroup.procs"
and populated_cnt tracking. The css_set reference is dropped when
the task_struct is freed.
* ->exit() callback no longer needs the css arguments as the
associated css never changes once PF_EXITING is set. Removed.
* cpu and perf_events controllers no longer need ->exit() callbacks.
There's no reason to explicitly switch away on exit. The final
schedule out is enough. The callbacks are removed.
* On traditional hierarchies, nothing changes. "/proc/PID/cgroup"
still reports "/" for all zombies. On the default hierarchy,
"/proc/PID/cgroup" keeps reporting the cgroup that the task belonged
to at the time of exit. If the cgroup gets removed before the task
is reaped, " (deleted)" is appended.
v2: Build brekage due to missing dummy cgroup_free() when
!CONFIG_CGROUP fixed.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Fix incorrect usage of css_get and css_put to put a different css in
pids_{cancel_,}attach() than the one grabbed in pids_can_attach(). This
could lead to quite serious memory leakage (and unsafe operations on the
putted css).
tj: minor comment update
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Adds a new single-purpose PIDs subsystem to limit the number of
tasks that can be forked inside a cgroup. Essentially this is an
implementation of RLIMIT_NPROC that applies to a cgroup rather than a
process tree.
However, it should be noted that organisational operations (adding and
removing tasks from a PIDs hierarchy) will *not* be prevented. Rather,
the number of tasks in the hierarchy cannot exceed the limit through
forking. This is due to the fact that, in the unified hierarchy, attach
cannot fail (and it is not possible for a task to overcome its PIDs
cgroup policy limit by attaching to a child cgroup -- even if migrating
mid-fork it must be able to fork in the parent first).
PIDs are fundamentally a global resource, and it is possible to reach
PID exhaustion inside a cgroup without hitting any reasonable kmemcg
policy. Once you've hit PID exhaustion, you're only in a marginally
better state than OOM. This subsystem allows PID exhaustion inside a
cgroup to be prevented.
Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Tejun Heo