Re: [PATCH v11 8/8] vhost: use vhost_tasks for worker threads

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

[CCing the regression list]

On 06.05.23 00:37, Mike Christie wrote:
> On 5/5/23 1:22 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 6:40 AM Nicolas Dichtel
>> <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is this an intended behavior?
>>> This breaks some of our scripts.

Jumping in here, as I found another problem with that patch: it broke
s2idle on my laptop when a qemu-kvm VM is running, as freezing user
space processes now fails for me:

```
 [  195.442949] PM: suspend entry (s2idle)
 [  195.641271] Filesystems sync: 0.198 seconds
 [  195.833828] Freezing user space processes
 [  215.841084] Freezing user space processes failed after 20.007
seconds (1 tasks refusing to freeze, wq_busy=0):
 [  215.841255] task:vhost-3221      state:R stack:0     pid:3250
ppid:3221   flags:0x00004006
 [  215.841264] Call Trace:
 [  215.841266]  <TASK>
 [  215.841270]  ? update_rq_clock+0x39/0x270
 [  215.841283]  ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x19/0x40
 [  215.841290]  ? __schedule+0x3f/0x1510
 [  215.841296]  ? sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xaf/0xd0
 [  215.841306]  ? schedule+0x61/0xe0
 [  215.841313]  ? vhost_worker+0x87/0xb0 [vhost]
 [  215.841329]  ? vhost_task_fn+0x1a/0x30
 [  215.841336]  ? __pfx_vhost_task_fn+0x10/0x10
 [  215.841341]  ? ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
 [  215.841352]  </TASK>
 [  215.841936] OOM killer enabled.
 [  215.841938] Restarting tasks ... done.
 [  215.844204] random: crng reseeded on system resumption
 [  215.957095] PM: suspend exit
 [  215.957185] PM: suspend entry (s2idle)
 [  215.967646] Filesystems sync: 0.010 seconds
 [  215.971326] Freezing user space processes
 [  235.974400] Freezing user space processes failed after 20.003
seconds (1 tasks refusing to freeze, wq_busy=0):
 [  235.974574] task:vhost-3221      state:R stack:0     pid:3250
ppid:3221   flags:0x00004806
 [  235.974583] Call Trace:
 [  235.974586]  <TASK>
 [  235.974593]  ? __schedule+0x184/0x1510
 [  235.974605]  ? sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xaf/0xd0
 [  235.974616]  ? schedule+0x61/0xe0
 [  235.974624]  ? vhost_worker+0x87/0xb0 [vhost]
 [  235.974648]  ? vhost_task_fn+0x1a/0x30
 [  235.974656]  ? __pfx_vhost_task_fn+0x10/0x10
 [  235.974662]  ? ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
 [  235.974673]  </TASK>
 [  235.975190] OOM killer enabled.
 [  235.975192] Restarting tasks ... done.
 [  235.978131] random: crng reseeded on system resumption
 [  236.091219] PM: suspend exit
```

After running into the problem I booted 6.3.1-rc1 again and there s2idle
still worked. Didn't do a bisection, just looked at the vhost commits
during the latest merge window; 6e890c5d502 ("vhost: use vhost_tasks for
worker threads") looked suspicious, so I reverted it on top of latest
mainline and then things work again. Through a search on lore I arrived
in this thread and found below patch from Mike. Gave it a try on top of
latest mainline, but it didn't help.

Ciao, Thorsten

> [...]
> If it's ok to change the behavior of "ps -u root", then we can do this patch:
> (Nicolas, I confirmed it fixes the 'ps a' case, but couldn't replicate the 'ps'
> case. If you could test the ps only case or give me info on what /usr/bin/example
> was doing I can replicate and test here):
> 
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
> index ed4e01daccaa..eb9ffc58e211 100644
> --- a/kernel/fork.c
> +++ b/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -2269,8 +2269,14 @@ __latent_entropy struct task_struct *copy_process(
>  	/*
>  	 * Thread groups must share signals as well, and detached threads
>  	 * can only be started up within the thread group.
> +	 *
> +	 * A userworker's parent thread will normally have a signal handler
> +	 * that performs management operations, but the worker will not
> +	 * because the parent will handle the signal then user a worker
> +	 * specific interface to manage the thread and related resources.
>  	 */
> -	if ((clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) && !(clone_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND))
> +	if ((clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD) && !(clone_flags & CLONE_SIGHAND) &&
> +	    !args->user_worker && !args->ignore_signals)
>  		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
>  
>  	/*
> diff --git a/kernel/vhost_task.c b/kernel/vhost_task.c
> index b7cbd66f889e..3700c21ea39d 100644
> --- a/kernel/vhost_task.c
> +++ b/kernel/vhost_task.c
> @@ -75,7 +78,8 @@ struct vhost_task *vhost_task_create(int (*fn)(void *), void *arg,
>  				     const char *name)
>  {
>  	struct kernel_clone_args args = {
> -		.flags		= CLONE_FS | CLONE_UNTRACED | CLONE_VM,
> +		.flags		= CLONE_FS | CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_VM |
> +				  CLONE_UNTRACED,
>  		.exit_signal	= 0,
>  		.fn		= vhost_task_fn,
>  		.name		= name