Re: [PATCH v2] locks: Filter /proc/locks output on proc pid ns

[Nikolay Borisov]

On 08/03/2016 04:46 PM, Jeff Layton wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-08-03 at 10:35 +0300, Nikolay Borisov wrote:
>> On busy container servers reading /proc/locks shows all the locks
>> created by all clients. This can cause large latency spikes. In my
>> case I observed lsof taking up to 5-10 seconds while processing around
>> 50k locks. Fix this by limiting the locks shown only to those created
>> in the same pidns as the one the proc was mounted in. When reading
>> /proc/locks from the init_pid_ns show everything.
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <kernel@xxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  fs/locks.c | 6 ++++++
>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
>> index ee1b15f6fc13..751673d7f7fc 100644
>> --- a/fs/locks.c
>> +++ b/fs/locks.c
>> @@ -2648,9 +2648,15 @@ static int locks_show(struct seq_file *f, void *v)
>>  {
>>>  	struct locks_iterator *iter = f->private;
>>>  	struct file_lock *fl, *bfl;
>>> +	struct pid_namespace *proc_pidns = file_inode(f->file)->i_sb->s_fs_info;
>>> +	struct pid_namespace *current_pidns = task_active_pid_ns(current);
>>  
>>>  	fl = hlist_entry(v, struct file_lock, fl_link);
>>  
>>>> +	if ((current_pidns != &init_pid_ns) && fl->fl_nspid
> 
> Ok, so when you read from a process that's in the init_pid_ns
> namespace, then you'll get the whole pile of locks, even when reading
> this from a filesystem that was mounted in a different pid_ns?
> 
> That seems odd to me if so. Any reason not to just uniformly use the
> proc_pidns here?

[CCing some people from openvz/CRIU]

My train of thought was "we should have means which would be the one
universal truth about everything and this would be a process in the
init_pid_ns". I don't have strong preference as long as I'm not breaking
userspace. As I said before - I think the CRIU guys might be using that
interface.

> 
>>>> +	    && (proc_pidns != ns_of_pid(fl->fl_nspid)))
>>> +		return 0;
>> +
>>>  	lock_get_status(f, fl, iter->li_pos, "");
>>  
>>>  	list_for_each_entry(bfl, &fl->fl_block, fl_block)
>