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Commit 154b454e authored by Tejun Heo's avatar Tejun Heo Committed by Linus Torvalds
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memcg: don't register hotcpu notifier from ->css_alloc()



Commit 648bb56d ("cgroup: lock cgroup_mutex in cgroup_init_subsys()")
made cgroup_init_subsys() grab cgroup_mutex before invoking
->css_alloc() for the root css.  Because memcg registers hotcpu notifier
from ->css_alloc() for the root css, this introduced circular locking
dependency between cgroup_mutex and cpu hotplug.

Fix it by moving hotcpu notifier registration to a subsys initcall.

  ======================================================
  [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
  3.7.0-rc4-work+ #42 Not tainted
  -------------------------------------------------------
  bash/645 is trying to acquire lock:
   (cgroup_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8110c5b7>] cgroup_lock+0x17/0x20

  but task is already holding lock:
   (cpu_hotplug.lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8109300f>] cpu_hotplug_begin+0x2f/0x60

  which lock already depends on the new lock.

  the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

 -> #1 (cpu_hotplug.lock){+.+.+.}:
         lock_acquire+0x97/0x1e0
         mutex_lock_nested+0x61/0x3b0
         get_online_cpus+0x3c/0x60
         rebuild_sched_domains_locked+0x1b/0x70
         cpuset_write_resmask+0x298/0x2c0
         cgroup_file_write+0x1ef/0x300
         vfs_write+0xa8/0x160
         sys_write+0x52/0xa0
         system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

 -> #0 (cgroup_mutex){+.+.+.}:
         __lock_acquire+0x14ce/0x1d20
         lock_acquire+0x97/0x1e0
         mutex_lock_nested+0x61/0x3b0
         cgroup_lock+0x17/0x20
         cpuset_handle_hotplug+0x1b/0x560
         cpuset_update_active_cpus+0xe/0x10
         cpuset_cpu_inactive+0x47/0x50
         notifier_call_chain+0x66/0x150
         __raw_notifier_call_chain+0xe/0x10
         __cpu_notify+0x20/0x40
         _cpu_down+0x7e/0x2f0
         cpu_down+0x36/0x50
         store_online+0x5d/0xe0
         dev_attr_store+0x18/0x30
         sysfs_write_file+0xe0/0x150
         vfs_write+0xa8/0x160
         sys_write+0x52/0xa0
         system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
  other info that might help us debug this:

   Possible unsafe locking scenario:

         CPU0                    CPU1
         ----                    ----
    lock(cpu_hotplug.lock);
                                 lock(cgroup_mutex);
                                 lock(cpu_hotplug.lock);
    lock(cgroup_mutex);

   *** DEADLOCK ***

  5 locks held by bash/645:
   #0:  (&buffer->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8123bab8>] sysfs_write_file+0x48/0x150
   #1:  (s_active#42){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff8123bb38>] sysfs_write_file+0xc8/0x150
   #2:  (x86_cpu_hotplug_driver_mutex){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff81079277>] cpu_hotplug_driver_lock+0x1
+7/0x20
   #3:  (cpu_add_remove_lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81093157>] cpu_maps_update_begin+0x17/0x20
   #4:  (cpu_hotplug.lock){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8109300f>] cpu_hotplug_begin+0x2f/0x60

  stack backtrace:
  Pid: 645, comm: bash Not tainted 3.7.0-rc4-work+ #42
  Call Trace:
   print_circular_bug+0x28e/0x29f
   __lock_acquire+0x14ce/0x1d20
   lock_acquire+0x97/0x1e0
   mutex_lock_nested+0x61/0x3b0
   cgroup_lock+0x17/0x20
   cpuset_handle_hotplug+0x1b/0x560
   cpuset_update_active_cpus+0xe/0x10
   cpuset_cpu_inactive+0x47/0x50
   notifier_call_chain+0x66/0x150
   __raw_notifier_call_chain+0xe/0x10
   __cpu_notify+0x20/0x40
   _cpu_down+0x7e/0x2f0
   cpu_down+0x36/0x50
   store_online+0x5d/0xe0
   dev_attr_store+0x18/0x30
   sysfs_write_file+0xe0/0x150
   vfs_write+0xa8/0x160
   sys_write+0x52/0xa0
   system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

Signed-off-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: default avatarFengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 495e9d84
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