[PATCH 3.16 191/192] cpuset: PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB should be atomic flags

Ben Hutchings
2017-10-09T13:18:49Z

From: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>

commit 2ad654bc5e2b211e92f66da1d819e47d79a866f0 upstream.

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")
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>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
Documentation/cgroups/cpusets.txt | 6 +++---
include/linux/cpuset.h | 4 ++--
include/linux/sched.h | 13 +++++++++++--
kernel/cpuset.c | 9 +++++----
mm/slab.c | 4 ++--
5 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

--- 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
--- a/include/linux/cpuset.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpuset.h
@@ -93,12 +93,12 @@ extern int cpuset_slab_spread_node(void)

static inline int cpuset_do_page_mem_spread(void)
{
- return current->flags & PF_SPREAD_PAGE;
+ return task_spread_page(current);
}

static inline int cpuset_do_slab_mem_spread(void)
{
- return current->flags & PF_SPREAD_SLAB;
+ return task_spread_slab(current);
}

extern int current_cpuset_is_being_rebound(void);
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1923,8 +1923,6 @@ extern void thread_group_cputime_adjuste
#define PF_KTHREAD 0x00200000 /* I am a kernel thread */
#define PF_RANDOMIZE 0x00400000 /* randomize virtual address space */
#define PF_SWAPWRITE 0x00800000 /* Allowed to write to swap */
-#define PF_SPREAD_PAGE 0x01000000 /* Spread page cache over cpuset */
-#define PF_SPREAD_SLAB 0x02000000 /* Spread some slab caches over cpuset */
#define PF_NO_SETAFFINITY 0x04000000 /* Userland is not allowed to meddle with cpus_allowed */
#define PF_MCE_EARLY 0x08000000 /* Early kill for mce process policy */
#define PF_MUTEX_TESTER 0x20000000 /* Thread belongs to the rt mutex tester */
@@ -1980,6 +1978,9 @@ static inline void memalloc_noio_restore

/* Per-process atomic flags. */
#define PFA_NO_NEW_PRIVS 0 /* May not gain new privileges. */
+#define PFA_SPREAD_PAGE 1 /* Spread page cache over cpuset */
+#define PFA_SPREAD_SLAB 2 /* Spread some slab caches over cpuset */
+

#define TASK_PFA_TEST(name, func) \
static inline bool task_##func(struct task_struct *p) \
@@ -1994,6 +1995,14 @@ static inline void memalloc_noio_restore
TASK_PFA_TEST(NO_NEW_PRIVS, no_new_privs)
TASK_PFA_SET(NO_NEW_PRIVS, no_new_privs)

+TASK_PFA_TEST(SPREAD_PAGE, spread_page)
+TASK_PFA_SET(SPREAD_PAGE, spread_page)
+TASK_PFA_CLEAR(SPREAD_PAGE, spread_page)
+
+TASK_PFA_TEST(SPREAD_SLAB, spread_slab)
+TASK_PFA_SET(SPREAD_SLAB, spread_slab)
+TASK_PFA_CLEAR(SPREAD_SLAB, spread_slab)
+
/*
* task->jobctl flags
*/
--- a/kernel/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cpuset.c
@@ -339,13 +339,14 @@ static void cpuset_update_task_spread_fl
struct task_struct *tsk)
{
if (is_spread_page(cs))
- tsk->flags |= PF_SPREAD_PAGE;
+ task_set_spread_page(tsk);
else
- tsk->flags &= ~PF_SPREAD_PAGE;
+ task_clear_spread_page(tsk);
+
if (is_spread_slab(cs))
- tsk->flags |= PF_SPREAD_SLAB;
+ task_set_spread_slab(tsk);
else
- tsk->flags &= ~PF_SPREAD_SLAB;
+ task_clear_spread_slab(tsk);
}

/*
--- a/mm/slab.c
+++ b/mm/slab.c
@@ -3112,7 +3112,7 @@ out:

#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
/*
- * Try allocating on another node if PF_SPREAD_SLAB is a mempolicy is set.
+ * Try allocating on another node if PFA_SPREAD_SLAB is a mempolicy is set.
*
* If we are in_interrupt, then process context, including cpusets and
* mempolicy, may not apply and should not be used for allocation policy.
@@ -3344,7 +3344,7 @@ __do_cache_alloc(struct kmem_cache *cach
{
void *objp;

- if (current->mempolicy || unlikely(current->flags & PF_SPREAD_SLAB)) {
+ if (current->mempolicy || cpuset_do_slab_mem_spread()) {
objp = alternate_node_alloc(cache, flags);
if (objp)
goto out;