linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/8] cgroup: kill cgroup_subsys->__DEPRECATED_clear_css

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Date:	Fri, 02 Nov 2012 19:01:45 +0900
From:	Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
CC:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, lizefan@...wei.com,
	hannes@...xchg.org, bsingharora@...il.com,
	containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] cgroup: kill cgroup_subsys->__DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs

(2012/11/01 5:24), Tejun Heo wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 09:14:16PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> On Wed 31-10-12 13:11:02, Tejun Heo wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz> wrote:
>>>> local_irq_disable doesn't guarantee atomicity, because other CPUs will
>>>
>>> Maybe it should say atomicity on the local CPU.
>>
>> That would be more clear but being more verbose doesn't hurt either :P
>>
>>>> see the change in steps so this is a bit misleading. The real reason
>>>> AFAICS is that we do not want to hang in css_tryget from IRQ context
>>>> (does this really happen btw.?) which would interrupt cgroup_rmdir
>>>> between we add CSS_DEACT_BIAS and the group is marked CGRP_REMOVED.
>>>> Or am I still missing the point?
>>>
>>> Yeah, that's the correct one. We don't want tryget happening between
>>> DEACT_BIAS and REMOVED as it can hang forever there.
>
> Here's the updated description.  git branch updated accordingly.
>
> Thanks.
>
> From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Subject: cgroup: kill cgroup_subsys->__DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs
>
> 2ef37d3fe4 ("memcg: Simplify mem_cgroup_force_empty_list error
> handling") removed the last user of __DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs.  This
> patch removes __DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs and mechanisms to support
> it.
>
> * Conditionals dependent on __DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs removed.
>
> * cgroup_clear_css_refs() can no longer fail.  All that needs to be
>    done are deactivating refcnts, setting CSS_REMOVED and putting the
>    base reference on each css.  Remove cgroup_clear_css_refs() and the
>    failure path, and open-code the loops into cgroup_rmdir().
>
> This patch keeps the two for_each_subsys() loops separate while open
> coding them.  They can be merged now but there are scheduled changes
> which need them to be separate, so keep them separate to reduce the
> amount of churn.
>
> local_irq_save/restore() from cgroup_clear_css_refs() are replaced
> with local_irq_disable/enable() for simplicity.  This is safe as
> cgroup_rmdir() is always called with IRQ enabled.  Note that this IRQ
> switching is necessary to ensure that css_tryget() isn't called from
> IRQ context on the same CPU while lower context is between CSS
> deactivation and setting CSS_REMOVED as css_tryget() would hang
> forever in such cases waiting for CSS to be re-activated or
> CSS_REMOVED set.  This will go away soon.
>
> v2: cgroup_call_pre_destroy() removal dropped per Michal.  Commit
>      message updated to explain local_irq_disable/enable() conversion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>

I should see this v2 thread 1st...

Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>



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