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Revert "sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem"
authorTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:51:12 +0000 (11:51 -0400)
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Wed, 16 Sep 2015 15:51:12 +0000 (11:51 -0400)
commit26e66ffad28832ba3a2b7fc56cc9194093acee1a
tree78c28e9ff07b67baf4c06f72f92bbaa586452c9a
parent01570d30d43344ab724ab80bd183fa828d295f1a
Revert "sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem"

This reverts commit 6b4b5d4fb0d7428dca776445dfff0c36af81371f.

6b4b5d4fb0d7 ("sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with
a global percpu_rwsem") and feb1a456bcaf ("cgroup: simplify
threadgroup locking") changed how cgroup synchronizes against task
fork and exits so that it uses global percpu_rwsem instead of
per-process rwsem; unfortunately, the write [un]lock paths of
percpu_rwsem always involve synchronize_rcu_expedited() which turned
out to be too expensive.

Improvements for percpu_rwsem are scheduled to be merged in the coming
v4.4-rc1 merge window which alleviates this issue.  For now, revert
the two commits to restore per-process rwsem.  They will be re-applied
for the v4.4-rc1 merge window.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/55F8097A.7000206@de.ibm.com
Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
include/linux/init_task.h
include/linux/sched.h
kernel/cgroup.c
kernel/fork.c