Re: [cgroup or VFS ?] WARNING: at fs/namespace.c:636 mntput_no_expire+0xac/0xf2()

From: Li Zefan
Date: Thu Feb 12 2009 - 01:55:39 EST


Li Zefan wrote:
>>>>> How cute... Same mountpoint in both, so these mount(2) will sometimes
>>>>> fail (cgroup picks the same sb on the same options, AFAICS) and fail
>>>>> silently due to these redirects...
>>>>>
>>>>> That's a lovely way to stress-test a large part of ro-bind stuff *and*
>>>>> umount()-related code. Could you do C equivalent of the above (just
>>>>> the same syscalls in loop, nothing fancier) and do time-stamped strace?
>>>>>
>>>> Sure, I'll write a C version and try to reproduce the warning.
>>>>
>>> Unfortunately, the C equivalent can't reproduce the warning, I've run the
>>> test for the whole night. :( While using the script, often I can trigger
>>> the warning in several mins.
>> Ho-hum... I wonder if we are hitting cgroup_clone() in all that fun...
>
> I don't think so, I think cgroup_clone() will be called only if namespace is
> used, like clone(CLONE_NEWNS). Even if cgroup_clone() gets called, it will
> return before doing any vfs work unless the ns_cgroup subsystem is mounted.
>

But the following testcase can also trigger the warning:

thread 1:
for ((; ;))
{
mount -t cgroup -o ns xxx cgroup/ > /dev/null 2>&1
# remove the dirs generated by cgroup_clone()
rmdir cgroup/[1-9]* > /dev/null 2>&1
umount cgroup/ > /dev/null 2>&1
}


thread 2:

int foo(void *arg)
{ return 0; }

char *stack[4096];

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int usec = DEFAULT_USEC;
while (1) {
usleep(usec);
# cgroup_clone() will be called
clone(foo, stack+4096, CLONE_NEWNS, NULL);
}

return 0;
}

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