linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] cgroup: fix permanent wait in rmdir

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Message-Id: <20090623134420.9103eac5.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:44:20 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>
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>,
	"menage@...gle.com" <menage@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] cgroup: fix permanent wait in rmdir

On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:13:33 +0900
Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:22:23 +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:37:07 +0900
> > KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > previous discussion was this => http://marc.info/?t=124478543600001&r=1&w=2
> > > 
> > > I think this is a minimum fix (in code size and behavior) and because
> > > we can take a BIG LOCK, this kind of check is necessary, anyway.
> > > Any comments are welcome.
> > 
> > I'll split this into 2 patches...and I found I should check page-migration, too.
> I'll wait a new version, but can you explain in advance this page-migration case ?
> 

Not far from swap-in case.

Assume cgroup "A" which includes file caches. A task in other group mmap file caches
and do page migration and rmdir against "A" is called at the same time.

In mem_cgroup_prepare_migration(), following check is used.

==
	lock_page_cgroup(pc);
	if (PageCgroupUsed(pc)) {
		mem = pc->mem_cgroup;
		css_get(&mem->css);
	}
	unlock_page_cgroup(pc);
	<======================================(*)
	if (mem) {
		<==============================(**)
		try_charge();
		...
	}
==

At (*), we grab css refcnt which can be under pre_destroy() and
At (**), pre_destroy may returns 0 but charge may be done after the end of pre_destroy().


> > > +static int mem_cgroup_retry_rmdir(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
> > > +				  struct cgroup *cont)
> > > +{
> > > +	struct mem_cgroup *mem = mem_cgroup_from_cont(cont);
> > > +
> > > +	if (res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->res, RES_USAGE))
> It should be &mem->res.
> 
yes.
too many typos in my patches in these days..

Thanks,
-Kame

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