From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
"Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>,
"Roman Gushchin" <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
"Kuniyuki Iwashima" <kuniyu@google.com>,
"Daniel Sedlak" <daniel.sedlak@cdn77.com>,
"Meta kernel team" <kernel-team@meta.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] cgroup: reduce cgroup_file_kn_lock hold time in cgroup_file_notify()
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:20:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260228142018.3178529-2-shakeel.butt@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260228142018.3178529-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
cgroup_file_notify() calls kernfs_notify() while holding the global
cgroup_file_kn_lock. kernfs_notify() does non-trivial work including
wake_up_interruptible() and acquisition of a second global spinlock
(kernfs_notify_lock), inflating the hold time.
Take a kernfs_get() reference under the lock and call kernfs_notify()
after dropping it, following the pattern from cgroup_file_show().
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
index be1d71dda317..33282c7d71e4 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
@@ -4687,6 +4687,7 @@ int cgroup_add_legacy_cftypes(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cftype *cfts)
void cgroup_file_notify(struct cgroup_file *cfile)
{
unsigned long flags;
+ struct kernfs_node *kn = NULL;
spin_lock_irqsave(&cgroup_file_kn_lock, flags);
if (cfile->kn) {
@@ -4696,11 +4697,17 @@ void cgroup_file_notify(struct cgroup_file *cfile)
if (time_in_range(jiffies, last, next)) {
timer_reduce(&cfile->notify_timer, next);
} else {
- kernfs_notify(cfile->kn);
+ kn = cfile->kn;
+ kernfs_get(kn);
cfile->notified_at = jiffies;
}
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cgroup_file_kn_lock, flags);
+
+ if (kn) {
+ kernfs_notify(kn);
+ kernfs_put(kn);
+ }
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cgroup_file_notify);
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-28 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-28 14:20 [PATCH 0/3] cgroup: improve cgroup_file_notify() scalability Shakeel Butt
2026-02-28 14:20 ` Shakeel Butt [this message]
2026-02-28 14:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] cgroup: add lockless fast-path checks to cgroup_file_notify() Shakeel Butt
2026-03-02 1:50 ` Chen Ridong
2026-03-02 16:14 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-03-02 17:00 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-03-03 3:18 ` Chen Ridong
2026-03-03 4:01 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-03-05 7:01 ` Chen Ridong
2026-03-03 3:08 ` Chen Ridong
2026-02-28 14:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] cgroup: replace global cgroup_file_kn_lock with per-cgroup_file lock Shakeel Butt
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