cgroup: Eliminate the need for cgroup_mutex in proc_cgroup_show()

The cgroup root_list is already RCU-safe. Therefore, we can replace the
cgroup_mutex with the RCU read lock in some particular paths. This change
will be particularly beneficial for frequent operations, such as
`cat /proc/self/cgroup`, in a cgroup1-based container environment.

I did stress tests with this change, as outlined below
(with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST enabled):

- Continuously mounting and unmounting named cgroups in some tasks,
  for example:

  cgrp_name=$1
  while true
  do
      mount -t cgroup -o none,name=$cgrp_name none /$cgrp_name
      umount /$cgrp_name
  done

- Continuously triggering proc_cgroup_show() in some tasks concurrently,
  for example:
  while true; do cat /proc/self/cgroup > /dev/null; done

They can ran successfully after implementing this change, with no RCU
warnings in dmesg.

Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
index 19784d44d615..9bb255e41cf2 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
@@ -6285,7 +6285,7 @@ int proc_cgroup_show(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 	if (!buf)
 		goto out;
 
-	cgroup_lock();
+	rcu_read_lock();
 	spin_lock_irq(&css_set_lock);
 
 	for_each_root(root) {
@@ -6296,6 +6296,11 @@ int proc_cgroup_show(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 		if (root == &cgrp_dfl_root && !READ_ONCE(cgrp_dfl_visible))
 			continue;
 
+		cgrp = task_cgroup_from_root(tsk, root);
+		/* The root has already been unmounted. */
+		if (!cgrp)
+			continue;
+
 		seq_printf(m, "%d:", root->hierarchy_id);
 		if (root != &cgrp_dfl_root)
 			for_each_subsys(ss, ssid)
@@ -6306,9 +6311,6 @@ int proc_cgroup_show(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 			seq_printf(m, "%sname=%s", count ? "," : "",
 				   root->name);
 		seq_putc(m, ':');
-
-		cgrp = task_cgroup_from_root(tsk, root);
-
 		/*
 		 * On traditional hierarchies, all zombie tasks show up as
 		 * belonging to the root cgroup.  On the default hierarchy,
@@ -6340,7 +6342,7 @@ int proc_cgroup_show(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 	retval = 0;
 out_unlock:
 	spin_unlock_irq(&css_set_lock);
-	cgroup_unlock();
+	rcu_read_unlock();
 	kfree(buf);
 out:
 	return retval;