Re: [RFC PATCH 1/7] cgroup: rstat: only disable interrupts for the percpu lock

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On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 8:46 AM Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 8:43 AM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 8:40 AM Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 6:36 AM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > [...]
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > 2. Are we really calling rstat flush in irq context?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I think it is possible through the charge/uncharge path:
> > > > > > memcg_check_events()->mem_cgroup_threshold()->mem_cgroup_usage(). I
> > > > > > added the protection against flushing in an interrupt context for
> > > > > > future callers as well, as it may cause a deadlock if we don't disable
> > > > > > interrupts when acquiring cgroup_rstat_lock.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > 3. The mem_cgroup_flush_stats() call in mem_cgroup_usage() is only
> > > > > > > done for root memcg. Why is mem_cgroup_threshold() interested in root
> > > > > > > memcg usage? Why not ignore root memcg in mem_cgroup_threshold() ?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I am not sure, but the code looks like event notifications may be set
> > > > > > up on root memcg, which is why we need to check thresholds.
> > > > >
> > > > > This is something we should deprecate as root memcg's usage is ill defined.
> > > >
> > > > Right, but I think this would be orthogonal to this patch series.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I don't think we can make cgroup_rstat_lock a non-irq-disabling lock
> > > without either breaking a link between mem_cgroup_threshold and
> > > cgroup_rstat_lock or make mem_cgroup_threshold work without disabling
> > > irqs.
> > >
> > > So, this patch can not be applied before either of those two tasks are
> > > done (and we may find more such scenarios).
> >
> >
> > Could you elaborate why?
> >
> > My understanding is that with an in_task() check to make sure we only
> > acquire cgroup_rstat_lock from non-irq context it should be fine to
> > acquire cgroup_rstat_lock without disabling interrupts.
>
> From mem_cgroup_threshold() code path, cgroup_rstat_lock will be taken
> with irq disabled while other code paths will take cgroup_rstat_lock
> with irq enabled. This is a potential deadlock hazard unless
> cgroup_rstat_lock is always taken with irq disabled.

Oh you are making sure it is not taken in the irq context through
should_skip_flush(). Hmm seems like a hack. Normally it is recommended
to actually remove all such users instead of silently
ignoring/bypassing the functionality.

So, how about removing mem_cgroup_flush_stats() from
mem_cgroup_usage(). It will break the known chain which is taking
cgroup_rstat_lock with irq disabled and you can add
WARN_ON_ONCE(!in_task()).




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