On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 05:28:46PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > On 21.11.19 19:45, Roman Gushchin wrote: > > I see. Do you know, which kmem_cache it is? If not, can you, please, > > figure it out? > > The release function for that ref is kmemcg_cache_shutdown. > Hi Christian! Can you, please, test if the following patch resolves the problem? diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c index 8afa188f6e20..628e5f0ee19e 100644 --- a/mm/slab_common.c +++ b/mm/slab_common.c @@ -888,6 +888,8 @@ static int shutdown_memcg_caches(struct kmem_cache *s) static void flush_memcg_workqueue(struct kmem_cache *s) { + bool wait_for_children; + spin_lock_irq(&memcg_kmem_wq_lock); s->memcg_params.dying = true; spin_unlock_irq(&memcg_kmem_wq_lock); @@ -904,6 +906,13 @@ static void flush_memcg_workqueue(struct kmem_cache *s) * previous workitems on workqueue are processed. */ flush_workqueue(memcg_kmem_cache_wq); + + mutex_lock(&slab_mutex); + wait_for_children = !list_empty(&s->memcg_params.children); + mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex); + + if (wait_for_children) + rcu_barrier(); } #else static inline int shutdown_memcg_caches(struct kmem_cache *s) -- Thanks!