linux-kernel - Re: 3.13-rc breaks MEMCG

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Message-ID: <20131216163530.GH32509@htj.dyndns.org>
Date:	Mon, 16 Dec 2013 11:35:30 -0500
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.13-rc breaks MEMCG_SWAP

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:40:42AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > How would this work? The task which pushed the memory to the swap is
> > still alive (living in a different group) and the swap will be there
> > after the last reference to css as well.
> 
> Or did you mean to get css reference in swap_cgroup_record and release
> it in __mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin?
> 
> That would prevent the warning (assuming idr_remove would move to
> css_free[1]) but I am not sure this is the right thing to do. memsw charges
> will be accounted to the parent already (assuming there is one) without
> anybody to uncharge them because all uncharges would fallback to the
> root memcg after css_offline.
> 
> Hugh's approach seems much better.

Hmmm... I think it's reasonable for css's to expect cgrp->id to not be
recycled before all css refs are gone.  If Hugh's patches are
something desriable independent of cgrp->id issues, great, but, if
not, let's first try to get it right from cgroup core.  Is it enough
for css_from_id() to return NULL after offline until all refs are
gone?  That should be an easy fix.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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