cgroup: skip refcnting on normal root csses and cgrp_dfl_root self css
9395a450 ("cgroup: enable refcnting for root csses") enabled reference counting for root csses (cgroup_subsys_states) so that cgroup's self csses can be used to manage the lifetime of the containing cgroups. Unfortunately, this change was incorrect. During early init, cgrp_dfl_root self css refcnt is used. percpu_ref can't initialized during early init and its initialization is deferred till cgroup_init() time. This means that cpu was using percpu_ref which wasn't properly initialized. Due to the way percpu variables are laid out on x86, this didn't blow up immediately on x86 but ended up incrementing and decrementing the percpu variable at offset zero, whatever it may be; however, on other archs, this caused fault and early boot failure. As cgroup self csses for root cgroups of non-dfl hierarchies need working refcounting, we can't revert 9395a450. This patch adds CSS_NO_REF which explicitly inhibits reference counting on the css and sets it on all normal (non-self) csses and cgroup_dfl_root self css. v2: cgrp_dfl_root.self is the offending one. Set the flag on it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reported-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> Fixes: 9395a450 ("cgroup: enable refcnting for root csses")
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