linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/12][V3] memcg: make memcg's life cycle the same as cgroup

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Message-ID: <5195D5F8.7000609@huawei.com>
Date:	Fri, 17 May 2013 15:02:16 +0800
From:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Cgroups <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/12][V3] memcg: make memcg's life cycle the same as cgroup

Hi Andrew,

All the patches in this patchset has been acked by Michal and Kamezawa-san, and
it's ready to be merged into -mm.

Changes since v2:

- rebased to 3.10-rc1
- collected some acks
- the two memcg bug fixes has been merged into mainline
- the cgroup core patch has been merged into mainline

Changes since v1:

- wrote better changelog and added acked-by and reviewed-by tags
- revised some comments as suggested by Michal
- added a wmb() in kmem_cgroup_css_offline(), pointed out by Michal
- fixed a bug which causes a css_put() never be called

Now memcg has its own refcnt, so when a cgroup is destroyed, the memcg can
still be alive. This patchset converts memcg to always use css_get/put, so
memcg will have the same life cycle as its corresponding cgroup.

The historical reason that memcg didn't use css_get in some cases, is that
cgroup couldn't be removed if there're still css refs. The situation has
changed so that rmdir a cgroup will succeed regardless css refs, but won't
be freed until css refs goes down to 0.

Since the introduction of kmemcg, the memcg refcnt handling grows even more
complicated. This patchset greately simplifies memcg's life cycle management.

Also, after those changes, we can convert memcg to use cgroup->id, and then
we can kill css_id.

The first 2 patches are bug fixes that can go into 3.10, and the rest are
for 3.10.

Li Zefan (7):
      memcg: use css_get() in sock_update_memcg()
      memcg: don't use mem_cgroup_get() when creating a kmemcg cache
      memcg: use css_get/put when charging/uncharging kmem
      memcg: use css_get/put for swap memcg
      memcg: don't need to get a reference to the parent
      memcg: kill memcg refcnt
      memcg: don't need to free memcg via RCU or workqueue

Michal Hocko (2):
      Revert "memcg: avoid dangling reference count in creation failure."
      memcg, kmem: fix reference count handling on the error path

---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 204 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)
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