VM worker kthreads can linger in the VM process's cgroup for sometime
after KVM terminates the VM process.
KVM terminates the worker kthreads by calling kthread_stop() which waits
on the 'exited' completion, triggered by exit_mm(), via mm_release(), in
do_exit() during the kthread's exit. However, these kthreads are
removed from the cgroup using the cgroup_exit() which happens after the
exit_mm(). Therefore, A VM process can terminate in between the
exit_mm() and cgroup_exit() calls, leaving only worker kthreads in the
cgroup.
Moving worker kthreads back to the original cgroup (kthreadd_task's
cgroup) makes sure that the cgroup is empty as soon as the main VM
process is terminated.
Signed-off-by: Vipin Sharma <vipinsh@google.com>
Suggested-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Message-Id: <20220222054848.563321-1-vipinsh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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