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| author | Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> | 2014-09-25 09:41:02 +0800 |
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| committer | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2014-09-24 22:16:06 -0400 |
| commit | 2ad654bc5e2b211e92f66da1d819e47d79a866f0 (patch) | |
| tree | c638346ac104f054fc61649a8739b004d06aff59 /Documentation | |
| parent | e0e5070b20e01f0321f97db4e4e174f3f6b49e50 (diff) | |
| download | linux-2ad654bc5e2b211e92f66da1d819e47d79a866f0.tar.bz2 | |
cpuset: PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB should be atomic flags
When we change cpuset.memory_spread_{page,slab}, cpuset will flip
PF_SPREAD_{PAGE,SLAB} bit of tsk->flags for each task in that cpuset.
This should be done using atomic bitops, but currently we don't,
which is broken.
Tetsuo reported a hard-to-reproduce kernel crash on RHEL6, which happened
when one thread tried to clear PF_USED_MATH while at the same time another
thread tried to flip PF_SPREAD_PAGE/PF_SPREAD_SLAB. They both operate on
the same task.
Here's the full report:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/19/230
To fix this, we make PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB atomic flags.
v4:
- updated mm/slab.c. (Fengguang Wu)
- updated Documentation.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Fixes: 950592f7b991 ("cpusets: update tasks' page/slab spread flags in time")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 2.6.31+
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt index 7740038d82bc..3c94ff3f9693 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt @@ -345,14 +345,14 @@ the named feature on. The implementation is simple. Setting the flag 'cpuset.memory_spread_page' turns on a per-process flag -PF_SPREAD_PAGE for each task that is in that cpuset or subsequently +PFA_SPREAD_PAGE for each task that is in that cpuset or subsequently joins that cpuset. The page allocation calls for the page cache -is modified to perform an inline check for this PF_SPREAD_PAGE task +is modified to perform an inline check for this PFA_SPREAD_PAGE task flag, and if set, a call to a new routine cpuset_mem_spread_node() returns the node to prefer for the allocation. Similarly, setting 'cpuset.memory_spread_slab' turns on the flag -PF_SPREAD_SLAB, and appropriately marked slab caches will allocate +PFA_SPREAD_SLAB, and appropriately marked slab caches will allocate pages from the node returned by cpuset_mem_spread_node(). The cpuset_mem_spread_node() routine is also simple. It uses the |