linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] cgroup-memcg fix frequent EBUSY at rmdir

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Message-Id: <20090114120044.2ecf13db.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:00:44 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com>
Cc:	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com" <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp" <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>,
	"lizf@...fujitsu.com" <lizf@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/4] cgroup-memcg fix frequent EBUSY at rmdir

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:48:43 -0800
Paul Menage <menage@...gle.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 1:35 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
> <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > +       if (ret == -EAGAIN) { /* subsys asks us to retry later */
> > +               mutex_unlock(&cgroup_mutex);
> > +               cond_resched();
> > +               goto retry;
> > +       }
> 
> This spinning worries me a bit. It might be better to do an
> interruptible sleep until the relevant CSS's refcount goes down to
> zero. 

Hmm, add wait_queue to css and wake it up at css_put() ?

like this ?
==
__css_put()
{
	if (atomi_dec_return(&css->refcnt) == 1) {
		if (notify_on_release(cgrp) {
			.....
		}
		if (someone_waiting_rmdir(css)) {
			wake_up_him().
		}
	}
}
==

> And is there no way that the memory controller can hang on to a
> reference indefinitely, if the cgroup still has some pages charged to
> it?
> 
pre_destroy() is for that.  Now, If there are still references from "page"
after pre_destroy(), it's bug.
swap-in after pre_destory() may add new refs from pages.
(I implemented reference from "swap" to be memcg internal refcnt not to css.)

Allowing Ctrl-C/alarm() here by signal_pending() will be better, anyway.

Thanks,
-Kame

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