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Message-ID: <CALWz4iyiM-CFgVaHiE1Lgd1ZwJzHwY3tx9XX6HeDPUV_wVPAtQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:28:31 -0700
From:	Ying Han <yinghan@...gle.com>
To:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"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>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	kamezawa.hiroyuki@...il.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 9/9 v2] memcg: never return error at pre_destroy()

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:06 PM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
<kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> When force_empty() called by ->pre_destroy(), no memory reclaim happens
> and it doesn't take very long time which requires signal_pending() check.
> And if we return -EINTR from pre_destroy(), cgroup.c show warning.
>
> This patch removes signal check in force_empty(). By this, ->pre_destroy()
> returns success always.
>
> Note: check for 'cgroup is empty' remains for force_empty interface.
>
> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  mm/hugetlb.c    |   10 +---------
>  mm/memcontrol.c |   14 +++++---------
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 4dd6b39..770f1642 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -1922,20 +1922,12 @@ int hugetlb_force_memcg_empty(struct cgroup *cgroup)
>        int ret = 0, idx = 0;
>
>        do {
> +               /* see memcontrol.c::mem_cgroup_force_empty() */
>                if (cgroup_task_count(cgroup)
>                        || !list_empty(&cgroup->children)) {
>                        ret = -EBUSY;
>                        goto out;
>                }
> -               /*
> -                * If the task doing the cgroup_rmdir got a signal
> -                * we don't really need to loop till the hugetlb resource
> -                * usage become zero.
> -                */
> -               if (signal_pending(current)) {
> -                       ret = -EINTR;
> -                       goto out;
> -               }
>                for_each_hstate(h) {
>                        spin_lock(&hugetlb_lock);
>                        list_for_each_entry(page, &h->hugepage_activelist, lru) {
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 2715223..ee350c5 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -3852,8 +3852,6 @@ static int mem_cgroup_force_empty_list(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>                pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
>
>                ret = mem_cgroup_move_parent(page, pc, memcg, GFP_KERNEL);
> -               if (ret == -ENOMEM || ret == -EINTR)
> -                       break;
>
>                if (ret == -EBUSY || ret == -EINVAL) {
>                        /* found lock contention or "pc" is obsolete. */
> @@ -3863,7 +3861,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_force_empty_list(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
>                        busy = NULL;
>        }
>
> -       if (!ret && !list_empty(list))
> +       if (!loop)

This looks a bit strange to me... why we make the change ?

--Ying

>                return -EBUSY;
>        return ret;
>  }
> @@ -3893,11 +3891,12 @@ static int mem_cgroup_force_empty(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, bool free_all)
>  move_account:
>        do {
>                ret = -EBUSY;
> +               /*
> +                * This never happens when this is called by ->pre_destroy().
> +                * But we need to take care of force_empty interface.
> +                */
>                if (cgroup_task_count(cgrp) || !list_empty(&cgrp->children))
>                        goto out;
> -               ret = -EINTR;
> -               if (signal_pending(current))
> -                       goto out;
>                /* This is for making all *used* pages to be on LRU. */
>                lru_add_drain_all();
>                drain_all_stock_sync(memcg);
> @@ -3918,9 +3917,6 @@ move_account:
>                }
>                mem_cgroup_end_move(memcg);
>                memcg_oom_recover(memcg);
> -               /* it seems parent cgroup doesn't have enough mem */
> -               if (ret == -ENOMEM)
> -                       goto try_to_free;
>                cond_resched();
>        /* "ret" should also be checked to ensure all lists are empty. */
>        } while (res_counter_read_u64(&memcg->res, RES_USAGE) > 0 || ret);
> --
> 1.7.4.1
>
>
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