Re: [PATCH] sched/fair: Prevent dead task groups from regaining cfs_rq's

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, Nov 05, 2021 at 05:29:14PM +0100, Mathias Krause wrote:
> > Looks like it needs to be the kfree_rcu() one in this case. I'll prepare
> > a patch.
> 
> Testing the below patch right now. Looking good so far. Will prepare a
> proper patch later, if we all can agree that this covers all cases.
> 
> But the basic idea is to defer the kfree()'s to after the next RCU GP,
> which also means we need to free the tg object itself later. Slightly
> ugly. :/

How's this then?

---
diff --git a/kernel/sched/autogroup.c b/kernel/sched/autogroup.c
index 2067080bb235..8629b37d118e 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/autogroup.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/autogroup.c
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ static inline void autogroup_destroy(struct kref *kref)
 	ag->tg->rt_se = NULL;
 	ag->tg->rt_rq = NULL;
 #endif
-	sched_offline_group(ag->tg);
+	sched_release_group(ag->tg);
 	sched_destroy_group(ag->tg);
 }
 
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 9cb81ef8acc8..22528bd61ba5 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -9715,6 +9715,21 @@ static void sched_free_group(struct task_group *tg)
 	kmem_cache_free(task_group_cache, tg);
 }
 
+static void sched_free_group_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu)
+{
+	sched_free_group(container_of(rcu, struct task_group, rcu_head));
+}
+
+static void sched_unregister_group(struct task_group *tg)
+{
+	unregister_fair_sched_group(tg);
+	/*
+	 * We have to wait for yet another RCU grace period to expire, as
+	 * print_cfs_stats() might run concurrently.
+	 */
+	call_rcu(&tg->rcu, sched_free_group_rcu);
+}
+
 /* allocate runqueue etc for a new task group */
 struct task_group *sched_create_group(struct task_group *parent)
 {
@@ -9735,7 +9750,7 @@ struct task_group *sched_create_group(struct task_group *parent)
 	return tg;
 
 err:
-	sched_free_group(tg);
+	sched_unregister_group(tg);
 	return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 }
 
@@ -9758,25 +9773,35 @@ void sched_online_group(struct task_group *tg, struct task_group *parent)
 }
 
 /* rcu callback to free various structures associated with a task group */
-static void sched_free_group_rcu(struct rcu_head *rhp)
+static void sched_unregister_group_rcu(struct rcu_head *rhp)
 {
 	/* Now it should be safe to free those cfs_rqs: */
-	sched_free_group(container_of(rhp, struct task_group, rcu));
+	sched_unregister_group(container_of(rhp, struct task_group, rcu));
 }
 
 void sched_destroy_group(struct task_group *tg)
 {
 	/* Wait for possible concurrent references to cfs_rqs complete: */
-	call_rcu(&tg->rcu, sched_free_group_rcu);
+	call_rcu(&tg->rcu, sched_unregister_group_rcu);
 }
 
-void sched_offline_group(struct task_group *tg)
+void sched_release_group(struct task_group *tg)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
 
-	/* End participation in shares distribution: */
-	unregister_fair_sched_group(tg);
-
+	/*
+	 * Unlink first, to avoid walk_tg_tree_from() from finding us (via
+	 * sched_cfs_period_timer()).
+	 *
+	 * For this to be effective, we have to wait for all pending users of
+	 * this task group to leave their RCU critical section to ensure no new
+	 * user will see our dying task group any more. Specifically ensure
+	 * that tg_unthrottle_up() won't add decayed cfs_rq's to it.
+	 *
+	 * We therefore defer calling unregister_fair_sched_group() to
+	 * sched_unregister_group() which is guarantied to get called only after the
+	 * current RCU grace period has expired.
+	 */
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&task_group_lock, flags);
 	list_del_rcu(&tg->list);
 	list_del_rcu(&tg->siblings);
@@ -9895,7 +9920,7 @@ static void cpu_cgroup_css_released(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 {
 	struct task_group *tg = css_tg(css);
 
-	sched_offline_group(tg);
+	sched_release_group(tg);
 }
 
 static void cpu_cgroup_css_free(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
@@ -9905,7 +9930,7 @@ static void cpu_cgroup_css_free(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
 	/*
 	 * Relies on the RCU grace period between css_released() and this.
 	 */
-	sched_free_group(tg);
+	sched_unregister_group(tg);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h
index f0b249ec581d..20038274c57b 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/sched.h
+++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h
@@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ extern struct task_group *sched_create_group(struct task_group *parent);
 extern void sched_online_group(struct task_group *tg,
 			       struct task_group *parent);
 extern void sched_destroy_group(struct task_group *tg);
-extern void sched_offline_group(struct task_group *tg);
+extern void sched_release_group(struct task_group *tg);
 
 extern void sched_move_task(struct task_struct *tsk);