cgroup/cpuset: remove circular dependency deadlock
Remove circular dependency deadlock in a scenario where hotplug of CPU is being done while there is updation in cgroup and cpuset triggered from userspace. Process A => kthreadd => Process B => Process C => Process A Process A cpu_subsys_offline(); cpu_down(); _cpu_down(); percpu_down_write(&cpu_hotplug_lock); //held cpuhp_invoke_callback(); workqueue_offline_cpu(); queue_work_on(); // unbind_work on system_highpri_wq __queue_work(); insert_work(); wake_up_worker(); flush_work(); wait_for_completion(); worker_thread(); manage_workers(); create_worker(); kthread_create_on_node(); wake_up_process(kthreadd_task); kthreadd kthreadd(); kernel_thread(); do_fork(); copy_process(); percpu_down_read(&cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem); __rwsem_down_read_failed_common(); //waiting Process B kernfs_fop_write(); cgroup_file_write(); cgroup_procs_write(); percpu_down_write(&cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem); //held cgroup_attach_task(); cgroup_migrate(); cgroup_migrate_execute(); cpuset_can_attach(); mutex_lock(&cpuset_mutex); //waiting Process C kernfs_fop_write(); cgroup_file_write(); cpuset_write_resmask(); mutex_lock(&cpuset_mutex); //held update_cpumask(); update_cpumasks_hier(); rebuild_sched_domains_locked(); get_online_cpus(); percpu_down_read(&cpu_hotplug_lock); //waiting Eliminating deadlock by reversing the locking order for cpuset_mutex and cpu_hotplug_lock. Signed-off-by: Prateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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