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kvm_vm_create_worker_thread() is meant to be used for kthreads that can consume significant amounts of CPU time on behalf of a VM or in response to how the VM behaves (for example how it accesses its memory). Therefore it wants to charge the CPU time consumed by that work to the VM's container. However, because of these threads, cgroups which have kvm instances inside never complete freezing. This can be trivially reproduced: root@test ~# mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test root@test ~# echo $$ > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.procs root@test ~# qemu-system-x86_64 -nographic -enable-kvm and in another terminal: root@test ~# echo 1 > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.freeze root@test ~# cat /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.events populated 1 frozen 0 The cgroup freezing happens in the signal delivery path but kvm_nx_huge_page_recovery_worker, while joining non-root cgroups, never calls into the signal delivery path and thus never gets frozen. Because the cgroup freezer determines whether a given cgroup is frozen by comparing the number of frozen threads to the total number of threads in the cgroup, the cgroup never becomes frozen and users waiting for the state transition may hang indefinitely. Since the worker kthread is tied to a user process, it's better if it behaves similarly to user tasks as much as possible, including being able to send SIGSTOP and SIGCONT. In fact, vhost_task is all that kvm_vm_create_worker_thread() wanted to be and more: not only it inherits the userspace process's cgroups, it has other niceties like being parented properly in the process tree. Use it instead of the homegrown alternative. Incidentally, the new code is also better behaved when you flip recovery back and forth to disabled and back to enabled. If your recovery period is 1 minute, it will run the next recovery after 1 minute independent of how many times you flipped the parameter. (Commit message based on emails from Tejun). Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Tested-by: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> |
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README
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.