Re: [PATCH] cgroup/cpuset: remove circular dependency deadlock

[Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>]

On 09/06/2017 07:48 AM, Prateek Sood wrote:
> Remove circular dependency deadlock in a scenario where hotplug of CPU is
> being done while there is updation in cgroup and cpuset triggered from
> userspace.
>
> Example scenario:
> kworker/0:0 => kthreadd => init:729 => init:1 => kworker/0:0
>
> kworker/0:0 - lock(cpuhotplug.mutex)  [held]
>               flush(work)   [no high prio workqueue available on CPU]
>               wait_for_completion()
>
> kthreadd    - percpu_down_read(cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem)  [waiting]
>
> init:729    - percpu_down_write(cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem)   [held]
>               lock(cpuset_mutex)   [waiting]
>
> init:1      - lock(cpuset_mutex)   [held]
>               lock(cpuhotplug.mutex)   [waiting]
>
> Eliminate this dependecy by reordering locking of cpuset_mutex
> and cpuhotplug.mutex in following order
> 1. Acquire cpuhotplug.mutex
> 2. Acquire cpuset_mutex
>
> Signed-off-by: Prateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org>

Is this patch for the latest upstream kernel or 4.4? There is no
cpuhotplug.mutex anymore in upstream kernel. It is a per-cpu rwsem
cpu_hotplug_lock.

Cheers,
Longman