From: Roman Penyaev <roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] kthread: allocate kthread structure using kmalloc
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2016 18:08:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJrWOzArjn5-byFx1y9VLT9phnQBTQpWAhX96RVigRsF0h2pOQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161025154301.GA12015@redhat.com>
On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 10/25, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>>
>> On 10/25, Roman Pen wrote:
>> >
>> > This patch avoids allocation of kthread structure on a stack, and simply
>> > uses kmalloc.
>>
>> Oh. I didn't even read this patch, but I have to admit I personally do not
>> like it. I can be wrong, but imo this is the step to the wrong direction.
>
> And after I tried to actually read it I dislike it even more, sorry Roman.
> Starting from the fact it moves kthread_create_info into struct kthread.
that can be changed, of course, as I told, I wanted to keep allocations/
deallocations simpler.
>> struct kthread is already bloated, we should not bloat it more. Instead
>> we should kill it. And to_kthread() too, at least in its current form.
>
> Yes, but even if we can't or do not want to do this, even if we want to
> kmalloc struct kthread, I really think it should not be refcounted
> separately from task_struct.
it is already like that, we have to get/put references on a task stack.
>
> something like the patch in http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=146715459127804
the key function in that patch is:
free_kthread_struct(tsk);
so if we teach the generic free_task() to deal with kthreads, that of course
solves these kind of problems. I did not consider that variant.
>
> Either way to_live_kthread() must go away. Currently we can't avoid it
> because we abuse vfork_done, but as I already said we no longer need this.
There is something which I do not understand. You still need to have a
connection (a pointer) between task_struct and private data (kthread AND
private data, whatever), which is passed by the user of kthread API.
You still need to find a victim in a task_struct and abuse it :)
So in particular I do not understand this comment from the patch above
where you abuse 'current->set_child_tid':
* This is the ugly but simple hack we will hopefully remove soon.
how you are going to avoid this abuse of set_child_tid? or vfork_done?
because vfork_done is not only for waking up (yes, I totally agree, we
can reuse task_work), it is also for getting a private data (like
workqueue uses it): task_struct->vfork_done->kthread->data.
--
Roman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-25 16:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-25 11:05 [PATCH v3 1/1] kthread: allocate kthread structure using kmalloc Roman Pen
2016-10-25 14:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-25 15:43 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-25 16:08 ` Roman Penyaev [this message]
2016-10-25 16:17 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-25 16:52 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-26 14:14 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-26 14:57 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-26 15:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-26 18:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-28 16:11 ` [PATCH 0/2] kthread: make struct kthread kmalloc'ed Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-28 16:11 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-28 18:48 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-28 16:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] Revert "kthread: Pin the stack via try_get_task_stack()/put_task_stack() in to_live_kthread() function" Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-28 18:49 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-28 18:44 ` [PATCH 0/2] kthread: make struct kthread kmalloc'ed Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-31 20:07 ` [PATCH 0/2] kthread: kill to_live_kthread() Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-31 20:07 ` [PATCH 1/2] kthread: don't use to_live_kthread() in kthread_stop() Oleg Nesterov
2016-11-09 7:58 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-10-31 20:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] kthread: don't use to_live_kthread() in kthread_park() and kthread_unpark() Oleg Nesterov
2016-11-09 8:45 ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-11-09 17:27 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-11-10 17:19 ` [PATCH 0/1] kthread: don't abuse kthread_create_on_cpu() in __kthread_create_worker() Oleg Nesterov
2016-11-10 17:20 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Oleg Nesterov
2016-11-14 11:12 ` Petr Mladek
2016-11-14 11:09 ` [PATCH 0/1] " Petr Mladek
2016-11-07 18:23 ` [PATCH 0/2] kthread: kill to_live_kthread() Andy Lutomirski
2016-10-26 16:13 ` [PATCH v3 1/1] kthread: allocate kthread structure using kmalloc Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-27 2:56 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2016-10-27 13:10 ` Oleg Nesterov
2016-10-25 15:46 ` Roman Penyaev
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