Re: [PATCH] cgroup: disable controllers at parse time

[Yang Shi]

On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 11:13 AM Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 1:19 PM Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > This patch effectively reverts the commit a3e72739b7a7 ("cgroup: fix
> > too early usage of static_branch_disable()"). The commit 6041186a3258
> > ("init: initialize jump labels before command line option parsing") has
> > moved the jump_label_init() before parse_args() which has made the
> > commit a3e72739b7a7 unnecessary. On the other hand there are
> > consequences of disabling the controllers later as there are subsystems
> > doing the controller checks for different decisions. One such incident
> > is reported [1] regarding the memory controller and its impact on memory
> > reclaim code.
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/921e53f3-4b13-aab8-4a9e-e83ff15371e4@xxxxxxx
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-by: NOMURA JUNICHI(野村　淳一) <junichi.nomura@xxxxxxx>
>
> Nomura, I think you have already tested this patch, so, can you please
> add your tested-by tag?
>
> Tejun, any comments or concerns?
>
> Yang, do you think we should add Fixes tag to make sure this patch
> lands in 5.13 where your shrinker patches landed?

Yes, I think we should, please do that.

>
> > ---
> >  kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 13 +++++--------
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
> > index e049edd66776..e7a9a2998245 100644
> > --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
> > +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
> > @@ -5634,8 +5634,6 @@ int __init cgroup_init_early(void)
> >         return 0;
> >  }
> >
> > -static u16 cgroup_disable_mask __initdata;
> > -
> >  /**
> >   * cgroup_init - cgroup initialization
> >   *
> > @@ -5694,12 +5692,8 @@ int __init cgroup_init(void)
> >                  * disabled flag and cftype registration needs kmalloc,
> >                  * both of which aren't available during early_init.
> >                  */
> > -               if (cgroup_disable_mask & (1 << ssid)) {
> > -                       static_branch_disable(cgroup_subsys_enabled_key[ssid]);
> > -                       printk(KERN_INFO "Disabling %s control group subsystem\n",
> > -                              ss->name);
> > +               if (!cgroup_ssid_enabled(ssid))
> >                         continue;
> > -               }
> >
> >                 if (cgroup1_ssid_disabled(ssid))
> >                         printk(KERN_INFO "Disabling %s control group subsystem in v1 mounts\n",
> > @@ -6214,7 +6208,10 @@ static int __init cgroup_disable(char *str)
> >                         if (strcmp(token, ss->name) &&
> >                             strcmp(token, ss->legacy_name))
> >                                 continue;
> > -                       cgroup_disable_mask |= 1 << i;
> > +
> > +                       static_branch_disable(cgroup_subsys_enabled_key[i]);
> > +                       pr_info("Disabling %s control group subsystem\n",
> > +                               ss->name);
> >                 }
> >         }
> >         return 1;
> > --
> > 2.31.1.607.g51e8a6a459-goog
> >