sched_ext: Decouple locks in scx_ops_enable()
The enable path uses three big locks - scx_fork_rwsem, scx_cgroup_rwsem and cpus_read_lock. Currently, the locks are grabbed together which is prone to locking order problems. For example, currently, there is a possible deadlock involving scx_fork_rwsem and cpus_read_lock. cpus_read_lock has to nest inside scx_fork_rwsem due to locking order existing in other subsystems. However, there exists a dependency in the other direction during hotplug if hotplug needs to fork a new task, which happens in some cases. This leads to the following deadlock: scx_ops_enable() hotplug percpu_down_write(&cpu_hotplug_lock) percpu_down_write(&scx_fork_rwsem) block on cpu_hotplug_lock kthread_create() waits for kthreadd kthreadd blocks on scx_fork_rwsem Note that this doesn't trigger lockdep because the hotplug side dependency bounces through kthreadd. With the preceding scx_cgroup_enabled change, this can be solved by decoupling cpus_read_lock, which is needed for static_key manipulations, from the other two locks. - Move the first block of static_key manipulations outside of scx_fork_rwsem and scx_cgroup_rwsem. This is now safe with the preceding scx_cgroup_enabled change. - Drop scx_cgroup_rwsem and scx_fork_rwsem between the two task iteration blocks so that __scx_ops_enabled static_key enabling is outside the two rwsems. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-and-tested-by: Aboorva Devarajan <aboorvad@linux.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8cd0ec0c4c7c1bc0119e61fbef0bee9d5e24022d.camel@linux.ibm.com
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