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| author | Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com> | 2022-01-06 12:20:41 -0500 |
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| committer | Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> | 2022-03-08 14:33:36 -0600 |
| commit | 18c91bb2d87268d23868bf13508f5bc9cf04e89a (patch) | |
| tree | e081820aafeec498f7d81513d6ec7411972ab1f9 /kernel/sys.c | |
| parent | c57bef0287dd5deeabaea5727950559fb9037cd9 (diff) | |
prlimit: do not grab the tasklist_lock
Unnecessarily grabbing the tasklist_lock can be a scalability bottleneck
for workloads that also must grab the tasklist_lock for waiting,
killing, and cloning.
The tasklist_lock was grabbed to protect tsk->sighand from disappearing
(becoming NULL). tsk->signal was already protected by holding a
reference to tsk.
update_rlimit_cpu() assumed tsk->sighand != NULL. With this commit, it
attempts to lock_task_sighand(). However, this means that
update_rlimit_cpu() can fail. This only happens when a task is exiting.
Note that during exec, sighand may *change*, but it will not be NULL.
Prior to this commit, the do_prlimit() ensured that update_rlimit_cpu()
would not fail by read locking the tasklist_lock and checking tsk->sighand
!= NULL.
If update_rlimit_cpu() fails, there may be other tasks that are not
exiting that share tsk->signal. However, the group_leader is the last
task to be released, so if we cannot update_rlimit_cpu(group_leader),
then the entire process is exiting.
The only other caller of update_rlimit_cpu() is
selinux_bprm_committing_creds(). It has tsk == current, so
update_rlimit_cpu() cannot fail (current->sighand cannot disappear
until current exits).
This change resulted in a 14% speedup on a microbenchmark where parents
kill and wait on their children, and children getpriority, setpriority,
and getrlimit.
Signed-off-by: Barret Rhoden <brho@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220106172041.522167-4-brho@google.com
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/sys.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/sys.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index d37d1f882b7d..374f83e95239 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -1441,13 +1441,7 @@ static int do_prlimit(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int resource, return -EPERM; } - /* protect tsk->signal and tsk->sighand from disappearing */ - read_lock(&tasklist_lock); - if (!tsk->sighand) { - retval = -ESRCH; - goto out; - } - + /* Holding a refcount on tsk protects tsk->signal from disappearing. */ rlim = tsk->signal->rlim + resource; task_lock(tsk->group_leader); if (new_rlim) { @@ -1476,10 +1470,19 @@ static int do_prlimit(struct task_struct *tsk, unsigned int resource, */ if (!retval && new_rlim && resource == RLIMIT_CPU && new_rlim->rlim_cur != RLIM_INFINITY && - IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS)) - update_rlimit_cpu(tsk, new_rlim->rlim_cur); -out: - read_unlock(&tasklist_lock); + IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS)) { + /* + * update_rlimit_cpu can fail if the task is exiting, but there + * may be other tasks in the thread group that are not exiting, + * and they need their cpu timers adjusted. + * + * The group_leader is the last task to be released, so if we + * cannot update_rlimit_cpu on it, then the entire process is + * exiting and we do not need to update at all. + */ + update_rlimit_cpu(tsk->group_leader, new_rlim->rlim_cur); + } + return retval; } |