[lustre-devel] [PATCH 27/32] lustre: don't call unshare_fs_struct()

[NeilBrown]

On Wed, Apr 03 2019, Andreas Dilger wrote:

> On Mar 13, 2019, at 18:11, NeilBrown <neilb at suse.com> wrote:
>> 
>> A kthread runs with the same fs_struct as init.
>> It is only helpful to unshare this if the thread
>> will change one of the fields in the fs_struct:
>> root directory
>> current working directory
>> umask.
>> 
>> No lustre kthread changes any of these, so there is
>> no need to call unshare_fs_struct().
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb at suse.com>
>
> I recall one of the issues ages ago is that when the kthreads are
> started in the context of "mount" that they would use the same
> CWD as the mount process, which may be undesirable (e.g. it will
> prevent unmounting that filesystem).
>
> It is entirely possible that things have changed since this was
> written, but worthwhile to mention.

That sounds familiar .....
We used to have a function "daemonize()" which would disconnect a kernel
thread from anything it had inherited.  That was dropped in 3.8.
New kthreads are always forked from kthreadd, which is pid 2 (on my
desktop).  They cannot inherit anything from the thread that requested
them except what is explicitly passed.

So yes, it used to be as you say (though there were "kthreads" back
then), but it hasn't been that way for a while.

Thanks,
NeilBrown

>
>> ---
>> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/llog.c  |    3 ---
>> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/import.c  |    3 ---
>> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/ptlrpcd.c |    2 --
>> drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/service.c |    4 ----
>> 4 files changed, 12 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/llog.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/llog.c
>> index a34b1a7108b7..ebb6c03ef038 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/llog.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/llog.c
>> @@ -45,7 +45,6 @@
>> #define DEBUG_SUBSYSTEM S_LOG
>> 
>> #include <linux/kthread.h>
>> -#include <linux/fs_struct.h>
>> #include <llog_swab.h>
>> #include <lustre_log.h>
>> #include <obd_class.h>
>> @@ -399,8 +398,6 @@ static int llog_process_thread_daemonize(void *arg)
>> 	struct lu_env env;
>> 	int rc;
>> 
>> -	unshare_fs_struct();
>> -
>> 	/* client env has no keys, tags is just 0 */
>> 	rc = lu_env_init(&env, LCT_LOCAL | LCT_MG_THREAD);
>> 	if (rc)
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/import.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/import.c
>> index 26a976865fbd..b2a57d2bdde7 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/import.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/import.c
>> @@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
>> #define DEBUG_SUBSYSTEM S_RPC
>> 
>> #include <linux/kthread.h>
>> -#include <linux/fs_struct.h>
>> #include <obd_support.h>
>> #include <lustre_ha.h>
>> #include <lustre_net.h>
>> @@ -1328,8 +1327,6 @@ static int ptlrpc_invalidate_import_thread(void *data)
>> {
>> 	struct obd_import *imp = data;
>> 
>> -	unshare_fs_struct();
>> -
>> 	CDEBUG(D_HA, "thread invalidate import %s to %s@%s\n",
>> 	       imp->imp_obd->obd_name, obd2cli_tgt(imp->imp_obd),
>> 	       imp->imp_connection->c_remote_uuid.uuid);
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/ptlrpcd.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/ptlrpcd.c
>> index c295e9943bf7..b02e6c50bae1 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/ptlrpcd.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/ptlrpcd.c
>> @@ -53,7 +53,6 @@
>> #define DEBUG_SUBSYSTEM S_RPC
>> 
>> #include <linux/kthread.h>
>> -#include <linux/fs_struct.h>
>> #include <linux/libcfs/libcfs.h>
>> #include <linux/libcfs/libcfs_cpu.h>
>> #include <linux/libcfs/libcfs_string.h>
>> @@ -389,7 +388,6 @@ static int ptlrpcd(void *arg)
>> 	int rc = 0;
>> 	int exit = 0;
>> 
>> -	unshare_fs_struct();
>> 	if (cfs_cpt_bind(cfs_cpt_tab, pc->pc_cpt) != 0)
>> 		CWARN("Failed to bind %s on CPT %d\n", pc->pc_name, pc->pc_cpt);
>> 
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/service.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/service.c
>> index c6b95c721167..571f0455e7b0 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/service.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/ptlrpc/service.c
>> @@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
>> #define DEBUG_SUBSYSTEM S_RPC
>> 
>> #include <linux/kthread.h>
>> -#include <linux/fs_struct.h>
>> #include <obd_support.h>
>> #include <obd_class.h>
>> #include <lustre_net.h>
>> @@ -2029,7 +2028,6 @@ static int ptlrpc_main(void *arg)
>> 	int counter = 0, rc = 0;
>> 
>> 	thread->t_pid = current->pid;
>> -	unshare_fs_struct();
>> 
>> 	/* NB: we will call cfs_cpt_bind() for all threads, because we
>> 	 * might want to run lustre server only on a subset of system CPUs,
>> @@ -2230,8 +2228,6 @@ static int ptlrpc_hr_main(void *arg)
>> 	LIST_HEAD(replies);
>> 	int rc;
>> 
>> -	unshare_fs_struct();
>> -
>> 	rc = cfs_cpt_bind(ptlrpc_hr.hr_cpt_table, hrp->hrp_cpt);
>> 	if (rc != 0) {
>> 		char threadname[20];
>> 
>> 
>
> Cheers, Andreas
> ---
> Andreas Dilger
> CTO Whamcloud
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