linux-kernel - Re: [patch v2] mm: memcontrol: do not iterate uninitialized memcgs

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Message-ID: <20140925135450.GA1822@cmpxchg.org>
Date:	Thu, 25 Sep 2014 09:54:50 -0400
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch v2] mm: memcontrol: do not iterate uninitialized memcgs

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 01:43:39PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 24-09-14 22:40:55, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > Argh, buggy css_put() against the root.  Hand grenades, everywhere.
> > Update:
> > 
> > ---
> > From 9b0b4d72d71cd8acd7aaa58d2006c751decc8739 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
> > Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 22:00:20 -0400
> > Subject: [patch] mm: memcontrol: do not iterate uninitialized memcgs
> > 
> > The cgroup iterators yield css objects that have not yet gone through
> > css_online(), but they are not complete memcgs at this point and so
> > the memcg iterators should not return them.  d8ad30559715 ("mm/memcg:
> > iteration skip memcgs not yet fully initialized") set out to implement
> > exactly this, but it uses CSS_ONLINE, a cgroup-internal flag that does
> > not meet the ordering requirements for memcg, and so we still may see
> > partially initialized memcgs from the iterators.
> 
> I do not see how would this happen. CSS_ONLINE is set after css_online
> callback returns and mem_cgroup_css_online ends the core initialization
> with mutex_unlock which should provide sufficient memory ordering
> requirements

But the iterators do not use the mutex?  We are missing the matching
acquire for the proper ordering.
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