Re: [PATCH testsuite] tests/task_setscheduler: add cgroup v2 case for moving proc to root cgroup

From: Ondrej Mosnacek
Date: Mon Jul 29 2024 - 06:29:11 EST


On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 4:55 AM Gong Ruiqi <gongruiqi1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 2024/07/26 21:43, Ondrej Mosnacek wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 2:34 PM Gong Ruiqi <gongruiqi1@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2024/07/18 0:17, Paul Moore wrote:
> >>> ...
> >>>
> >>> Where (what distribution, version, etc.) did you see this problem?
> >>
> >> The problem occurred when I ran the testsuite on Fedora 40 with v6.6
> >> kernel, and it was the only failed testcase.
> >
> > Sorry for the delay... For some reason the test passes for me even
> > with cgroup v2 only and without the patch (also when run from a
> > regular user account with sudo). Do you happen to know what
> > circumstances are needed for it to fail when the cgroup is not
> > switched?
> >
>
> As the comment in the script says, a process need to be in the root
> cgroup in order to switch its scheduler policy to SCHED_{RR,FIFO}. So
> maybe in your case the shell process is already in the root cgroup?
>
> In my case I need to ssh to a Fedora VM, and that makes my shell process
> to be in a sub cgroup called /user.slice/.../XXX.scope (looks like some
> systemd stuff). And since /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/tasks doesn't exit in the
> system with cgroup v2 only, the script skips moving the target process
> to the root cgroup, and therefore the subsequent test fails.

In my case I ssh as root and end up in
/user.slice/user-0.slice/session-1.scope cgroup,
/sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/tasks also doesn't exist, and yet the test passes.
The same also happens when I ssh as a regular user (with cgroup
/user.slice/user-1000.slice/session-3.scope) and run the testsuite
with sudo. So there must be something more to it... maybe some kernel
config or sysctl setting?

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Ondrej Mosnacek
Senior Software Engineer, Linux Security - SELinux kernel
Red Hat, Inc.