Re: [4.2] commit d59cfc09c32 (sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem) causes regression for libvirt/kvm

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 05:26:22PM -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 11:11:45PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> > > In fact, I would say that any userspace-controlled call to *_expedited()
> > > is a bug waiting to happen and a bad idea---because userspace can, with
> > > little effort, end up calling it in a loop.
> > 
> > Right. This also implies that we should fix this for 4.2 - I guess.
> 
> Are the percpu_rwsem changes enough?  If so, we can try to backport
> those.  If those are too risky, we can revert the patches which
> switched threadgroup lock to percpu_rwsem.

I did take a shot at adding the rcu_sync stuff during this past merge
window, but it did not converge quickly enough to make it.  It looks
quite good for the next merge window.  There have been changes in most
of the relevant areas, so probably best to just try them and see which
works best.

							Thanx, Paul

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