cpuset: make mm migration asynchronous

If "cpuset.memory_migrate" is set, when a process is moved from one
cpuset to another with a different memory node mask, pages in used by
the process are migrated to the new set of nodes.  This was performed
synchronously in the ->attach() callback, which is synchronized
against process management.  Recently, the synchronization was changed
from per-process rwsem to global percpu rwsem for simplicity and
optimization.

Combined with the synchronous mm migration, this led to deadlocks
because mm migration could schedule a work item which may in turn try
to create a new worker blocking on the process management lock held
from cgroup process migration path.

This heavy an operation shouldn't be performed synchronously from that
deep inside cgroup migration in the first place.  This patch punts the
actual migration to an ordered workqueue and updates cgroup process
migration and cpuset config update paths to flush the workqueue after
all locks are released.  This way, the operations still seem
synchronous to userland without entangling mm migration with process
management synchronization.  CPU hotplug can also invoke mm migration
but there's no reason for it to wait for mm migrations and thus
doesn't synchronize against their completions.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.4+

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index c03a640ef6da..88abd4d076d8 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/delay.h>
 #include <linux/atomic.h>
+#include <linux/cpuset.h>
 #include <net/sock.h>
 
 /*
@@ -2739,6 +2740,7 @@ out_unlock_rcu:
 out_unlock_threadgroup:
 	percpu_up_write(&cgroup_threadgroup_rwsem);
 	cgroup_kn_unlock(of->kn);
+	cpuset_post_attach_flush();
 	return ret ?: nbytes;
 }