Re: [BUGFIX] cgroup: create a workqueue for cgroup

[Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>]

On Mon, 3 Oct 2011 09:22:44 +0900
Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:30:49 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm00@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 16:54:52 +0900
> > Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp> wrote:
> > 
> > > In commit:f90d4118, cpuset_wq, a separate workqueue for cpuset, was introduced
> > > to avoid a dead lock against cgroup_mutex between async_rebuild_sched_domains()
> > > and cgroup_tasks_write().
> > > 
> > > But check_for_release() has a similar problem:
> > > 
> > >   check_for_release()
> > >     schedule_work(release_agent_work)
> > >       cgroup_release_agent()
> > >         mutex_lock(&cgroup_mutex)
> > > 
> > > And I actually see a lockup which seems to be caused by this problem
> > > on 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64.
> > 
> > Are you sure the bug is still present in current kernels?  Perhaps
> > Tejun's workqueue changes magically made it go away.
> > 
> Not yet, but I'll check it.
> 
As you said, I cannot repricate this issue on 3.1-rc8. But I've verified
it happens on 2.6.32.46 and this patch fixes it, so I think this patch is
necessary for stable at least.

Thanks,
Daisuke Nishimura.