From 3b514d24e200fcdcde0a57c354a51d3677a86743 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tejun Heo Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:22:47 -0400 Subject: cgroup: skip refcnting on normal root csses and cgrp_dfl_root self css 9395a4500404 ("cgroup: enable refcnting for root csses") enabled reference counting for root csses (cgroup_subsys_states) so that cgroup's self csses can be used to manage the lifetime of the containing cgroups. Unfortunately, this change was incorrect. During early init, cgrp_dfl_root self css refcnt is used. percpu_ref can't initialized during early init and its initialization is deferred till cgroup_init() time. This means that cpu was using percpu_ref which wasn't properly initialized. Due to the way percpu variables are laid out on x86, this didn't blow up immediately on x86 but ended up incrementing and decrementing the percpu variable at offset zero, whatever it may be; however, on other archs, this caused fault and early boot failure. As cgroup self csses for root cgroups of non-dfl hierarchies need working refcounting, we can't revert 9395a4500404. This patch adds CSS_NO_REF which explicitly inhibits reference counting on the css and sets it on all normal (non-self) csses and cgroup_dfl_root self css. v2: cgrp_dfl_root.self is the offending one. Set the flag on it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Stephen Warren Tested-by: Stephen Warren Fixes: 9395a4500404 ("cgroup: enable refcnting for root csses") --- include/linux/cgroup.h | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'include/linux/cgroup.h') diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup.h b/include/linux/cgroup.h index 76dadd77a120..1737db0c63fe 100644 --- a/include/linux/cgroup.h +++ b/include/linux/cgroup.h @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ struct cgroup_subsys_state { /* bits in struct cgroup_subsys_state flags field */ enum { + CSS_NO_REF = (1 << 0), /* no reference counting for this css */ CSS_ONLINE = (1 << 1), /* between ->css_online() and ->css_offline() */ }; @@ -88,7 +89,8 @@ enum { */ static inline void css_get(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) { - percpu_ref_get(&css->refcnt); + if (!(css->flags & CSS_NO_REF)) + percpu_ref_get(&css->refcnt); } /** @@ -103,7 +105,9 @@ static inline void css_get(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) */ static inline bool css_tryget_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) { - return percpu_ref_tryget_live(&css->refcnt); + if (!(css->flags & CSS_NO_REF)) + return percpu_ref_tryget_live(&css->refcnt); + return true; } /** @@ -114,7 +118,8 @@ static inline bool css_tryget_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) */ static inline void css_put(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) { - percpu_ref_put(&css->refcnt); + if (!(css->flags & CSS_NO_REF)) + percpu_ref_put(&css->refcnt); } /* bits in struct cgroup flags field */ -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522