cpuset: PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB should be atomic flags
When we change cpuset.memory_spread_{page,slab}, cpuset will flip
PF_SPREAD_{PAGE,SLAB} bit of tsk->flags for each task in that cpuset.
This should be done using atomic bitops, but currently we don't,
which is broken.
Tetsuo reported a hard-to-reproduce kernel crash on RHEL6, which happened
when one thread tried to clear PF_USED_MATH while at the same time another
thread tried to flip PF_SPREAD_PAGE/PF_SPREAD_SLAB. They both operate on
the same task.
Here's the full report:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/19/230
To fix this, we make PF_SPREAD_PAGE and PF_SPREAD_SLAB atomic flags.
v4:
- updated mm/slab.c. (Fengguang Wu)
- updated Documentation.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Fixes: 950592f7b991 ("cpusets: update tasks' page/slab spread flags in time")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 2.6.31+
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 5630763..7b1cafe 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -1903,8 +1903,6 @@
#define PF_KTHREAD 0x00200000 /* I am a kernel thread */
#define PF_RANDOMIZE 0x00400000 /* randomize virtual address space */
#define PF_SWAPWRITE 0x00800000 /* Allowed to write to swap */
-#define PF_SPREAD_PAGE 0x01000000 /* Spread page cache over cpuset */
-#define PF_SPREAD_SLAB 0x02000000 /* Spread some slab caches over cpuset */
#define PF_NO_SETAFFINITY 0x04000000 /* Userland is not allowed to meddle with cpus_allowed */
#define PF_MCE_EARLY 0x08000000 /* Early kill for mce process policy */
#define PF_MUTEX_TESTER 0x20000000 /* Thread belongs to the rt mutex tester */
@@ -1958,6 +1956,9 @@
/* Per-process atomic flags. */
#define PFA_NO_NEW_PRIVS 0 /* May not gain new privileges. */
+#define PFA_SPREAD_PAGE 1 /* Spread page cache over cpuset */
+#define PFA_SPREAD_SLAB 2 /* Spread some slab caches over cpuset */
+
#define TASK_PFA_TEST(name, func) \
static inline bool task_##func(struct task_struct *p) \
@@ -1972,6 +1973,14 @@
TASK_PFA_TEST(NO_NEW_PRIVS, no_new_privs)
TASK_PFA_SET(NO_NEW_PRIVS, no_new_privs)
+TASK_PFA_TEST(SPREAD_PAGE, spread_page)
+TASK_PFA_SET(SPREAD_PAGE, spread_page)
+TASK_PFA_CLEAR(SPREAD_PAGE, spread_page)
+
+TASK_PFA_TEST(SPREAD_SLAB, spread_slab)
+TASK_PFA_SET(SPREAD_SLAB, spread_slab)
+TASK_PFA_CLEAR(SPREAD_SLAB, spread_slab)
+
/*
* task->jobctl flags
*/