Re: [Question] set_cpus_allowed_ptr() call failed at cpuset_attach()

From: Waiman Long
Date: Sun Jan 16 2022 - 23:35:18 EST


On 1/16/22 21:25, Zhang Qiao wrote:
hello

在 2022/1/15 4:33, Waiman Long 写道:
On 1/14/22 11:20, Tejun Heo wrote:
(cc'ing Waiman and Michal and quoting whole body)

Seems sane to me but let's hear what Waiman and Michal think.

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 09:15:06AM +0800, Zhang Qiao wrote:
Hello everyone

    I found the following warning log on qemu. I migrated a task from one cpuset cgroup to
another, while I also performed the cpu hotplug operation, and got following calltrace.

    This may lead to a inconsistency between the affinity of the task and cpuset.cpus of the
dest cpuset, but this task can be successfully migrated to the dest cpuset cgroup.

    Can we use cpus_read_lock()/cpus_read_unlock() to guarantee that set_cpus_allowed_ptr()
doesn't fail, as follows:

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
index d0e163a02099..2535d23d2c51 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
@@ -2265,6 +2265,7 @@ static void cpuset_attach(struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
         guarantee_online_mems(cs, &cpuset_attach_nodemask_to);

         cgroup_taskset_for_each(task, css, tset) {
+               cpus_read_lock();
                 if (cs != &top_cpuset)
                         guarantee_online_cpus(task, cpus_attach);
                 else
@@ -2274,6 +2275,7 @@ static void cpuset_attach(struct cgroup_taskset *tset)
                  * fail.  TODO: have a better way to handle failure here
                  */
                 WARN_ON_ONCE(set_cpus_allowed_ptr(task, cpus_attach));
+               cpus_read_unlock();


    Is there a better solution?

    Thanks
The change looks OK to me. However, we may need to run the full set of regression test to make sure that lockdep won't complain about potential deadlock.

I run the test with lockdep enabled, and got lockdep warning like that below.
so we should take the cpu_hotplug_lock first, then take the cpuset_rwsem lock.

thanks,
Zhang Qiao

[ 38.420372] ======================================================
[ 38.421339] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
[ 38.422312] 5.16.0-rc4+ #13 Not tainted
[ 38.422920] ------------------------------------------------------
[ 38.423883] bash/594 is trying to acquire lock:
[ 38.424595] ffffffff8286afc0 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: cpuset_attach+0xc2/0x1e0
[ 38.425880]
[ 38.425880] but task is already holding lock:
[ 38.426787] ffffffff8296a5a0 (&cpuset_rwsem){++++}-{0:0}, at: cpuset_attach+0x3e/0x1e0
[ 38.428015]
[ 38.428015] which lock already depends on the new lock.
[ 38.428015]
[ 38.429279]
[ 38.429279] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
[ 38.430445]
[ 38.430445] -> #1 (&cpuset_rwsem){++++}-{0:0}:
[ 38.431371] percpu_down_write+0x42/0x130
[ 38.432085] cpuset_css_online+0x2b/0x2e0
[ 38.432808] online_css+0x24/0x80
[ 38.433411] cgroup_apply_control_enable+0x2fa/0x330
[ 38.434273] cgroup_mkdir+0x396/0x4c0
[ 38.434930] kernfs_iop_mkdir+0x56/0x80
[ 38.435614] vfs_mkdir+0xde/0x190
[ 38.436220] do_mkdirat+0x7d/0xf0
[ 38.436824] __x64_sys_mkdir+0x21/0x30
[ 38.437495] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x80
[ 38.438145] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
[ 38.439015]
[ 38.439015] -> #0 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}:
[ 38.439980] __lock_acquire+0x17f6/0x2260
[ 38.440691] lock_acquire+0x277/0x320
[ 38.441347] cpus_read_lock+0x37/0xc0
[ 38.442011] cpuset_attach+0xc2/0x1e0
[ 38.442671] cgroup_migrate_execute+0x3a6/0x490
[ 38.443461] cgroup_attach_task+0x22c/0x3d0
[ 38.444197] __cgroup1_procs_write.constprop.21+0x10d/0x170
[ 38.445145] cgroup_file_write+0x6f/0x230
[ 38.445860] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x130/0x1b0
[ 38.446636] new_sync_write+0x120/0x1b0
[ 38.447319] vfs_write+0x359/0x3b0
[ 38.447937] ksys_write+0xa2/0xe0
[ 38.448540] do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x80
[ 38.449183] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
[ 38.450057]
[ 38.450057] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 38.450057]
[ 38.451297] Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[ 38.451297]
[ 38.452218] CPU0 CPU1
[ 38.452935] ---- ----
[ 38.453650] lock(&cpuset_rwsem);
[ 38.454188] lock(cpu_hotplug_lock);
[ 38.455148] lock(&cpuset_rwsem);
[ 38.456069] lock(cpu_hotplug_lock);

Yes, you need to play around with lock ordering to make sure that lockdep won't complain.

Cheers,
Longman