linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/7] memcg: use css_get/put when charging/uncharging kmem

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Message-ID: <515EA532.4050706@parallels.com>
Date:	Fri, 5 Apr 2013 14:19:30 +0400
From:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
CC:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 3/7] memcg: use css_get/put when charging/uncharging
 kmem


> 	 * __mem_cgroup_free will issue static_key_slow_dec because this
> 	 * memcg is active already. If the later initialization fails
> 	 * then the cgroup core triggers the cleanup so we do not have
> 	 * to do it here.
> 	 */
>> -	mem_cgroup_get(memcg);
>>  	static_key_slow_inc(&memcg_kmem_enabled_key);
>>  
>>  	mutex_lock(&set_limit_mutex);
>> @@ -5823,23 +5814,33 @@ static int memcg_init_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct cgroup_subsys *ss)
>>  	return mem_cgroup_sockets_init(memcg, ss);
>>  };
>>  
>> -static void kmem_cgroup_destroy(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
>> +static void kmem_cgroup_css_offline(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
>>  {
>> -	mem_cgroup_sockets_destroy(memcg);
>> +	/*
>> +	 * kmem charges can outlive the cgroup. In the case of slab
>> +	 * pages, for instance, a page contain objects from various
>> +	 * processes, so it is unfeasible to migrate them away. We
>> +	 * need to reference count the memcg because of that.
>> +	 */
> 
> I would prefer if we could merge all three comments in this function
> into a single one. What about something like the following?
> 	/*
> 	 * kmem charges can outlive the cgroup. In the case of slab
> 	 * pages, for instance, a page contain objects from various
> 	 * processes. As we prevent from taking a reference for every
> 	 * such allocation we have to be careful when doing uncharge
> 	 * (see memcg_uncharge_kmem) and here during offlining.
> 	 * The idea is that that only the _last_ uncharge which sees
> 	 * the dead memcg will drop the last reference. An additional
> 	 * reference is taken here before the group is marked dead
> 	 * which is then paired with css_put during uncharge resp. here.
> 	 * Although this might sound strange as this path is called when
> 	 * the reference has already dropped down to 0 and shouldn't be
> 	 * incremented anymore (css_tryget would fail) we do not have
> 	 * other options because of the kmem allocations lifetime.
> 	 */
>> +	css_get(&memcg->css);
> 
> I think that you need a write memory barrier here because css_get
> nor memcg_kmem_mark_dead implies it. memcg_uncharge_kmem uses
> memcg_kmem_test_and_clear_dead which imply a full memory barrier but it
> should see the elevated reference count. No?
> 

We don't use barriers for any other kind of reference counting. What is
different here?

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