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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups/freezer-subsystem.txt | 63 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/cgroup_freezer.c | 161 |
2 files changed, 165 insertions, 59 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/freezer-subsystem.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/freezer-subsystem.txt index 7e62de1e59ff..c96a72cbb30a 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups/freezer-subsystem.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups/freezer-subsystem.txt @@ -49,13 +49,49 @@ prevent the freeze/unfreeze cycle from becoming visible to the tasks being frozen. This allows the bash example above and gdb to run as expected. -The freezer subsystem in the container filesystem defines a file named -freezer.state. Writing "FROZEN" to the state file will freeze all tasks in the -cgroup. Subsequently writing "THAWED" will unfreeze the tasks in the cgroup. -Reading will return the current state. +The cgroup freezer is hierarchical. Freezing a cgroup freezes all +tasks beloning to the cgroup and all its descendant cgroups. Each +cgroup has its own state (self-state) and the state inherited from the +parent (parent-state). Iff both states are THAWED, the cgroup is +THAWED. -Note freezer.state doesn't exist in root cgroup, which means root cgroup -is non-freezable. +The following cgroupfs files are created by cgroup freezer. + +* freezer.state: Read-write. + + When read, returns the effective state of the cgroup - "THAWED", + "FREEZING" or "FROZEN". This is the combined self and parent-states. + If any is freezing, the cgroup is freezing (FREEZING or FROZEN). + + FREEZING cgroup transitions into FROZEN state when all tasks + belonging to the cgroup and its descendants become frozen. Note that + a cgroup reverts to FREEZING from FROZEN after a new task is added + to the cgroup or one of its descendant cgroups until the new task is + frozen. + + When written, sets the self-state of the cgroup. Two values are + allowed - "FROZEN" and "THAWED". If FROZEN is written, the cgroup, + if not already freezing, enters FREEZING state along with all its + descendant cgroups. + + If THAWED is written, the self-state of the cgroup is changed to + THAWED. Note that the effective state may not change to THAWED if + the parent-state is still freezing. If a cgroup's effective state + becomes THAWED, all its descendants which are freezing because of + the cgroup also leave the freezing state. + +* freezer.self_freezing: Read only. + + Shows the self-state. 0 if the self-state is THAWED; otherwise, 1. + This value is 1 iff the last write to freezer.state was "FROZEN". + +* freezer.parent_freezing: Read only. + + Shows the parent-state. 0 if none of the cgroup's ancestors is + frozen; otherwise, 1. + +The root cgroup is non-freezable and the above interface files don't +exist. * Examples of usage : @@ -85,18 +121,3 @@ to unfreeze all tasks in the container : This is the basic mechanism which should do the right thing for user space task in a simple scenario. - -It's important to note that freezing can be incomplete. In that case we return -EBUSY. This means that some tasks in the cgroup are busy doing something that -prevents us from completely freezing the cgroup at this time. After EBUSY, -the cgroup will remain partially frozen -- reflected by freezer.state reporting -"FREEZING" when read. The state will remain "FREEZING" until one of these -things happens: - - 1) Userspace cancels the freezing operation by writing "THAWED" to - the freezer.state file - 2) Userspace retries the freezing operation by writing "FROZEN" to - the freezer.state file (writing "FREEZING" is not legal - and returns EINVAL) - 3) The tasks that blocked the cgroup from entering the "FROZEN" - state disappear from the cgroup's set of tasks. diff --git a/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c b/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c index 4f12d317c4c3..670a4af7dc94 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c @@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ #include <linux/freezer.h> #include <linux/seq_file.h> +/* + * A cgroup is freezing if any FREEZING flags are set. FREEZING_SELF is + * set if "FROZEN" is written to freezer.state cgroupfs file, and cleared + * for "THAWED". FREEZING_PARENT is set if the parent freezer is FREEZING + * for whatever reason. IOW, a cgroup has FREEZING_PARENT set if one of + * its ancestors has FREEZING_SELF set. + */ enum freezer_state_flags { CGROUP_FREEZER_ONLINE = (1 << 0), /* freezer is fully online */ CGROUP_FREEZING_SELF = (1 << 1), /* this freezer is freezing */ @@ -50,6 +57,15 @@ static inline struct freezer *task_freezer(struct task_struct *task) struct freezer, css); } +static struct freezer *parent_freezer(struct freezer *freezer) +{ + struct cgroup *pcg = freezer->css.cgroup->parent; + + if (pcg) + return cgroup_freezer(pcg); + return NULL; +} + bool cgroup_freezing(struct task_struct *task) { bool ret; @@ -74,17 +90,6 @@ static const char *freezer_state_strs(unsigned int state) return "THAWED"; }; -/* - * State diagram - * Transitions are caused by userspace writes to the freezer.state file. - * The values in parenthesis are state labels. The rest are edge labels. - * - * (THAWED) --FROZEN--> (FREEZING) --FROZEN--> (FROZEN) - * ^ ^ | | - * | \_______THAWED_______/ | - * \__________________________THAWED____________/ - */ - struct cgroup_subsys freezer_subsys; static struct cgroup_subsys_state *freezer_create(struct cgroup *cgroup) @@ -103,15 +108,34 @@ static struct cgroup_subsys_state *freezer_create(struct cgroup *cgroup) * freezer_post_create - commit creation of a freezer cgroup * @cgroup: cgroup being created * - * We're committing to creation of @cgroup. Mark it online. + * We're committing to creation of @cgroup. Mark it online and inherit + * parent's freezing state while holding both parent's and our + * freezer->lock. */ static void freezer_post_create(struct cgroup *cgroup) { struct freezer *freezer = cgroup_freezer(cgroup); + struct freezer *parent = parent_freezer(freezer); + + /* + * The following double locking and freezing state inheritance + * guarantee that @cgroup can never escape ancestors' freezing + * states. See cgroup_for_each_descendant_pre() for details. + */ + if (parent) + spin_lock_irq(&parent->lock); + spin_lock_nested(&freezer->lock, SINGLE_DEPTH_NESTING); - spin_lock_irq(&freezer->lock); freezer->state |= CGROUP_FREEZER_ONLINE; - spin_unlock_irq(&freezer->lock); + + if (parent && (parent->state & CGROUP_FREEZING)) { + freezer->state |= CGROUP_FREEZING_PARENT | CGROUP_FROZEN; + atomic_inc(&system_freezing_cnt); + } + + spin_unlock(&freezer->lock); + if (parent) + spin_unlock_irq(&parent->lock); } /** @@ -153,6 +177,7 @@ static void freezer_attach(struct cgroup *new_cgrp, struct cgroup_taskset *tset) { struct freezer *freezer = cgroup_freezer(new_cgrp); struct task_struct *task; + bool clear_frozen = false; spin_lock_irq(&freezer->lock); @@ -172,10 +197,25 @@ static void freezer_attach(struct cgroup *new_cgrp, struct cgroup_taskset *tset) } else { freeze_task(task); freezer->state &= ~CGROUP_FROZEN; + clear_frozen = true; } } spin_unlock_irq(&freezer->lock); + + /* + * Propagate FROZEN clearing upwards. We may race with + * update_if_frozen(), but as long as both work bottom-up, either + * update_if_frozen() sees child's FROZEN cleared or we clear the + * parent's FROZEN later. No parent w/ !FROZEN children can be + * left FROZEN. + */ + while (clear_frozen && (freezer = parent_freezer(freezer))) { + spin_lock_irq(&freezer->lock); + freezer->state &= ~CGROUP_FROZEN; + clear_frozen = freezer->state & CGROUP_FREEZING; + spin_unlock_irq(&freezer->lock); + } } static void freezer_fork(struct task_struct *task) @@ -200,24 +240,47 @@ out: rcu_read_unlock(); } -/* - * We change from FREEZING to FROZEN lazily if the cgroup was only - * partially frozen when we exitted write. Caller must hold freezer->lock. +/** + * update_if_frozen - update whether a cgroup finished freezing + * @cgroup: cgroup of interest + * + * Once FREEZING is initiated, transition to FROZEN is lazily updated by + * calling this function. If the current state is FREEZING but not FROZEN, + * this function checks whether all tasks of this cgroup and the descendant + * cgroups finished freezing and, if so, sets FROZEN. + * + * The caller is responsible for grabbing RCU read lock and calling + * update_if_frozen() on all descendants prior to invoking this function. * * Task states and freezer state might disagree while tasks are being * migrated into or out of @cgroup, so we can't verify task states against * @freezer state here. See freezer_attach() for details. */ -static void update_if_frozen(struct freezer *freezer) +static void update_if_frozen(struct cgroup *cgroup) { - struct cgroup *cgroup = freezer->css.cgroup; + struct freezer *freezer = cgroup_freezer(cgroup); + struct cgroup *pos; struct cgroup_iter it; struct task_struct *task; + WARN_ON_ONCE(!rcu_read_lock_held()); + + spin_lock_irq(&freezer->lock); + if (!(freezer->state & CGROUP_FREEZING) || (freezer->state & CGROUP_FROZEN)) - return; + goto out_unlock; + + /* are all (live) children frozen? */ + cgroup_for_each_child(pos, cgroup) { + struct freezer *child = cgroup_freezer(pos); + if ((child->state & CGROUP_FREEZER_ONLINE) && + !(child->state & CGROUP_FROZEN)) + goto out_unlock; + } + + /* are all tasks frozen? */ cgroup_iter_start(cgroup, &it); while ((task = cgroup_iter_next(cgroup, &it))) { @@ -229,27 +292,32 @@ static void update_if_frozen(struct freezer *freezer) * the usual frozen condition. */ if (!frozen(task) && !freezer_should_skip(task)) - goto notyet; + goto out_iter_end; } } freezer->state |= CGROUP_FROZEN; -notyet: +out_iter_end: cgroup_iter_end(cgroup, &it); +out_unlock: + spin_unlock_irq(&freezer->lock); } static int freezer_read(struct cgroup *cgroup, struct cftype *cft, struct seq_file *m) { - struct freezer *freezer = cgroup_freezer(cgroup); - unsigned int state; + struct cgroup *pos; - spin_lock_irq(&freezer->lock); - update_if_frozen(freezer); - state = freezer->state; - spin_unlock_irq(&freezer->lock); + rcu_read_lock(); - seq_puts(m, freezer_state_strs(state)); + /* update states bottom-up */ + cgroup_for_each_descendant_post(pos, cgroup) + update_if_frozen(pos); + update_if_frozen(cgroup); + + rcu_read_unlock(); + + seq_puts(m, freezer_state_strs(cgroup_freezer(cgroup)->state)); seq_putc(m, '\n'); return 0; } @@ -320,14 +388,39 @@ static void freezer_apply_state(struct freezer *freezer, bool freeze, * @freezer: freezer of interest * @freeze: whether to freeze or thaw * - * Freeze or thaw @cgroup according to @freeze. + * Freeze or thaw @freezer according to @freeze. The operations are + * recursive - all descendants of @freezer will be affected. */ static void freezer_change_state(struct freezer *freezer, bool freeze) { + struct cgroup *pos; + /* update @freezer */ spin_lock_irq(&freezer->lock); freezer_apply_state(freezer, freeze, CGROUP_FREEZING_SELF); spin_unlock_irq(&freezer->lock); + + /* + * Update all its descendants in pre-order traversal. Each + * descendant will try to inherit its parent's FREEZING state as + * CGROUP_FREEZING_PARENT. + */ + rcu_read_lock(); + cgroup_for_each_descendant_pre(pos, freezer->css.cgroup) { + struct freezer *pos_f = cgroup_freezer(pos); + struct freezer *parent = parent_freezer(pos_f); + + /* + * Our update to @parent->state is already visible which is + * all we need. No need to lock @parent. For more info on + * synchronization, see freezer_post_create(). + */ + spin_lock_irq(&pos_f->lock); + freezer_apply_state(pos_f, parent->state & CGROUP_FREEZING, + CGROUP_FREEZING_PARENT); + spin_unlock_irq(&pos_f->lock); + } + rcu_read_unlock(); } static int freezer_write(struct cgroup *cgroup, struct cftype *cft, @@ -390,12 +483,4 @@ struct cgroup_subsys freezer_subsys = { .attach = freezer_attach, .fork = freezer_fork, .base_cftypes = files, - - /* - * freezer subsys doesn't handle hierarchy at all. Frozen state - * should be inherited through the hierarchy - if a parent is - * frozen, all its children should be frozen. Fix it and remove - * the following. - */ - .broken_hierarchy = true, }; |