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From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	"Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>,
	"Chen Ridong" <chenridong@huaweicloud.com>,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"Meta kernel team" <kernel-team@meta.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] cgroup: replace global cgroup_file_kn_lock with per-cgroup_file lock
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:01:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260311010101.3306366-4-shakeel.butt@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260311010101.3306366-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev>

Replace the global cgroup_file_kn_lock with a per-cgroup_file spinlock
to eliminate cross-cgroup contention as it is not really protecting
data shared between different cgroups.

The lock is initialized in cgroup_add_file() alongside timer_setup().
No lock acquisition is needed during initialization since the cgroup
directory is being populated under cgroup_mutex and no concurrent
accessors exist at that point.

Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
---
Changes since v1:
- N/A

 include/linux/cgroup-defs.h |  1 +
 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c      | 24 ++++++++----------------
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
index bb92f5c169ca..ba26b5d05ce3 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
@@ -167,6 +167,7 @@ struct cgroup_file {
 	struct kernfs_node *kn;
 	unsigned long notified_at;
 	struct timer_list notify_timer;
+	spinlock_t lock;
 };
 
 /*
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
index b00f4c3242e0..d899bb2aef2f 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
@@ -107,12 +107,6 @@ static bool cgroup_debug __read_mostly;
  */
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(cgroup_idr_lock);
 
-/*
- * Protects cgroup_file->kn for !self csses.  It synchronizes notifications
- * against file removal/re-creation across css hiding.
- */
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(cgroup_file_kn_lock);
-
 DEFINE_PERCPU_RWSEM(cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem);
 
 #define cgroup_assert_mutex_or_rcu_locked()				\
@@ -1748,9 +1742,9 @@ static void cgroup_rm_file(struct cgroup *cgrp, const struct cftype *cft)
 		struct cgroup_subsys_state *css = cgroup_css(cgrp, cft->ss);
 		struct cgroup_file *cfile = (void *)css + cft->file_offset;
 
-		spin_lock_irq(&cgroup_file_kn_lock);
+		spin_lock_irq(&cfile->lock);
 		WRITE_ONCE(cfile->kn, NULL);
-		spin_unlock_irq(&cgroup_file_kn_lock);
+		spin_unlock_irq(&cfile->lock);
 
 		timer_delete_sync(&cfile->notify_timer);
 	}
@@ -4427,10 +4421,8 @@ static int cgroup_add_file(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css, struct cgroup *cgrp,
 		struct cgroup_file *cfile = (void *)css + cft->file_offset;
 
 		timer_setup(&cfile->notify_timer, cgroup_file_notify_timer, 0);
-
-		spin_lock_irq(&cgroup_file_kn_lock);
-		WRITE_ONCE(cfile->kn, kn);
-		spin_unlock_irq(&cgroup_file_kn_lock);
+		spin_lock_init(&cfile->lock);
+		cfile->kn = kn;
 	}
 
 	return 0;
@@ -4699,13 +4691,13 @@ void cgroup_file_notify(struct cgroup_file *cfile)
 			return;
 	}
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&cgroup_file_kn_lock, flags);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&cfile->lock, flags);
 	if (cfile->kn) {
 		kn = cfile->kn;
 		kernfs_get(kn);
 		WRITE_ONCE(cfile->notified_at, jiffies);
 	}
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cgroup_file_kn_lock, flags);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cfile->lock, flags);
 
 	if (kn) {
 		kernfs_notify(kn);
@@ -4723,10 +4715,10 @@ void cgroup_file_show(struct cgroup_file *cfile, bool show)
 {
 	struct kernfs_node *kn;
 
-	spin_lock_irq(&cgroup_file_kn_lock);
+	spin_lock_irq(&cfile->lock);
 	kn = cfile->kn;
 	kernfs_get(kn);
-	spin_unlock_irq(&cgroup_file_kn_lock);
+	spin_unlock_irq(&cfile->lock);
 
 	if (kn)
 		kernfs_show(kn, show);
-- 
2.52.0



      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-11  1:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-11  1:00 [PATCH v2 0/3] cgroup: improve cgroup_file_notify() scalability Shakeel Butt
2026-03-11  1:00 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] cgroup: reduce cgroup_file_kn_lock hold time in cgroup_file_notify() Shakeel Butt
2026-03-11  1:01 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] cgroup: add lockless fast-path checks to cgroup_file_notify() Shakeel Butt
2026-03-11  1:01 ` Shakeel Butt [this message]

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