Re: [PATCH v4] proc: Fix a dentry lock race between release_task and lookup

[Zhihao Cheng <chengzhihao1@huawei.com>]

在 2022/6/10 16:09, Zhihao Cheng 写道:
> 在 2022/6/1 14:23, Zhihao Cheng 写道:
ping again.
> friendly ping
>> Commit 7bc3e6e55acf06 ("proc: Use a list of inodes to flush from proc")
>> moved proc_flush_task() behind __exit_signal(). Then, process systemd
>> can take long period high cpu usage during releasing task in following
>> concurrent processes:
>>
>>    systemd                                 ps
>> kernel_waitid                 stat(/proc/tgid)
>>    do_wait                       filename_lookup
>>      wait_consider_task            lookup_fast
>>        release_task
>>          __exit_signal
>>            __unhash_process
>>              detach_pid
>>                __change_pid // remove task->pid_links
>>                                       d_revalidate -> pid_revalidate  
>> // 0
>>                                       d_invalidate(/proc/tgid)
>>                                         shrink_dcache_parent(/proc/tgid)
>>                                           d_walk(/proc/tgid)
>>                                             
>> spin_lock_nested(/proc/tgid/fd)
>>                                             // iterating opened fd
>>          proc_flush_pid                                    |
>>             d_invalidate (/proc/tgid/fd)                   |
>>                shrink_dcache_parent(/proc/tgid/fd)         |
>>                  shrink_dentry_list(subdirs)               ↓
>>                    shrink_lock_dentry(/proc/tgid/fd) --> race on 
>> dentry lock
>>
>> Function d_invalidate() will remove dentry from hash firstly, but why 
>> does
>> proc_flush_pid() process dentry '/proc/tgid/fd' before dentry 
>> '/proc/tgid'?
>> That's because proc_pid_make_inode() adds proc inode in reverse order by
>> invoking hlist_add_head_rcu(). But proc should not add any inodes under
>> '/proc/tgid' except '/proc/tgid/task/pid', fix it by adding inode into
>> 'pid->inodes' only if the inode is /proc/tgid or /proc/tgid/task/pid.
>>
>> Performance regression:
>> Create 200 tasks, each task open one file for 50,000 times. Kill all
>> tasks when opened files exceed 10,000,000 (cat /proc/sys/fs/file-nr).
>>
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