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From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	"Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>,
	"Roman Gushchin" <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
	"Kuniyuki Iwashima" <kuniyu@google.com>,
	"Daniel Sedlak" <daniel.sedlak@cdn77.com>,
	"Meta kernel team" <kernel-team@meta.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] cgroup: reduce cgroup_file_kn_lock hold time in cgroup_file_notify()
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2026 06:20:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260228142018.3178529-2-shakeel.butt@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260228142018.3178529-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev>

cgroup_file_notify() calls kernfs_notify() while holding the global
cgroup_file_kn_lock.  kernfs_notify() does non-trivial work including
wake_up_interruptible() and acquisition of a second global spinlock
(kernfs_notify_lock), inflating the hold time.

Take a kernfs_get() reference under the lock and call kernfs_notify()
after dropping it, following the pattern from cgroup_file_show().

Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reported-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
index be1d71dda317..33282c7d71e4 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c
@@ -4687,6 +4687,7 @@ int cgroup_add_legacy_cftypes(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cftype *cfts)
 void cgroup_file_notify(struct cgroup_file *cfile)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
+	struct kernfs_node *kn = NULL;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&cgroup_file_kn_lock, flags);
 	if (cfile->kn) {
@@ -4696,11 +4697,17 @@ void cgroup_file_notify(struct cgroup_file *cfile)
 		if (time_in_range(jiffies, last, next)) {
 			timer_reduce(&cfile->notify_timer, next);
 		} else {
-			kernfs_notify(cfile->kn);
+			kn = cfile->kn;
+			kernfs_get(kn);
 			cfile->notified_at = jiffies;
 		}
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cgroup_file_kn_lock, flags);
+
+	if (kn) {
+		kernfs_notify(kn);
+		kernfs_put(kn);
+	}
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cgroup_file_notify);
 
-- 
2.47.3



  reply	other threads:[~2026-02-28 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-28 14:20 [PATCH 0/3] cgroup: improve cgroup_file_notify() scalability Shakeel Butt
2026-02-28 14:20 ` Shakeel Butt [this message]
2026-02-28 14:20 ` [PATCH 2/3] cgroup: add lockless fast-path checks to cgroup_file_notify() Shakeel Butt
2026-02-28 14:20 ` [PATCH 3/3] cgroup: replace global cgroup_file_kn_lock with per-cgroup_file lock Shakeel Butt

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