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Date:	Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:33:51 +0900
From:	Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
CC:	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"cgroups@...r.kernel.org" <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Han Ying <yinghan@...gle.com>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3][0/6] memcg: prevent -ENOMEM in pre_destroy()

(2012/06/28 2:58), Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, KAME.
>
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 08:27:25AM +0900, Kamezawa Hiroyuki wrote:
>> Remaining 20% of work is based on a modification to cgroup layer
>>
>> How do you think this patch ? (This patch is not tested yet...so
>> may have troubles...) I think callers of pre_destory() is not so many...
>>
>> ==
>>  From a28db946f91f3509d25779e8c5db249506cc4b07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
>> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 08:38:38 +0900
>> Subject: [PATCH] cgroup: keep cgroup_mutex() while calling ->pre_destroy()
>>
>> In past, memcg's pre_destroy() was verrry slow because of the possibility
>> of page reclaiming in it. So, cgroup_mutex() was released before calling
>> pre_destroy() callbacks. Now, it's enough fast. memcg just scans the list
>> and move pages to other cgroup, no memory reclaim happens.
>> Then, we can keep cgroup_mutex() there.
>>
>> By holding looks, we can avoid following cases
>>     1. new task is attached while rmdir().
>>     2. new child cgroup is created while rmdir()
>>     3. new task is attached to cgroup and removed from cgroup before
>>        checking css's count. So, ->destroy() will be called even if
>>        some trashes by the task remains
>>
>> (3. is terrible case...even if I think it will not happen in real world..)
>
> Ooh, once memcg drops the __DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs, cgroup_rmdir()
> will mark the cgroup dead before start calling pre_destroy() and none
> of the above will happen.
>

Hm, threads which touches memcg should hold memcg's reference count rather than css.
Right ? IIUC, one of reason is a reference from kswapd etc...hm. I'll check it.

Thanks,
-Kame










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