cgroup: disallow subtree controller enable/disable while there are tasks
RFC PATCH 1/1 cgroup: disallow subtree controller enable/disable while there are tasks
It's not safe if we enable/disable some controllers while there are tasks in the substree, because task migration can fail.
For example rt bandwidth controller disallow having rt tasks in the cgroup if no bandwidth has been allocated, which is the case when a cgroup is just created.
A kernel warning is triggered immediately by doing:
# mkdir child # <launch an rt task> # echo PID > child/cgroup.procs # echo '+cpu' > cgroup.subtree_control -bash: echo: write error: Invalid argument
------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4067 at kernel/cgroup.c:2677 cgroup_update_dfl_csses+0x2aa/0x3a0()
cgroup: failed to update controllers for the default hierarchy (-22), further operations may crash or hang
Disable this until we eliminate all ss->can_attach callbacks.
--- kernel/cgroup.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
kernel/cgroup.c +14 -0
@@ -2840,6 +2840,20 @@ static ssize_t cgroup_subtree_control_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, }/* +* FIXME: currently we can't enable/disable controllers while +* there are tasks in the subtree, because task migration +* can fail. +*/ +cgroup_for_each_live_child (child, cgrp) { +if (cgroup_has_tasks (child)) { + ret = -EBUSY ; + goto err_undo_css; + } + } + +/* +* FIXME: this won't do anything because of the above check. +* * At this point, cgroup_e_css() results reflect the new csses * making the following cgroup_update_dfl_csses() properly update * css associations of all tasks in the subtree.
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1.8.0.2
Tejun Heo
maintainerQuoted 8 lines · Zefan Li
It's not safe if we enable/disable some controllers while there are tasks in the substree, because task migration can fail.
For example rt bandwidth controller disallow having rt tasks in the cgroup if no bandwidth has been allocated, which is the case when a cgroup is just created.
A kernel warning is triggered immediately by doing:
Well, the whole thing is behind the devel flag for a reason. Let's see how we can resolve the RT case and then determine what to do.
Thanks.
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tejun