Commit c1e2ee2dc436 "memcg: replace ss->id_lock with a rwlock" has now been seen to cause the unfair behavior we should have expected from converting a spinlock to an rwlock: softlockup in cgroup_mkdir(), whose get_new_cssid() is waiting for the wlock, while there are 19 tasks using the rlock in css_get_next() to get on with their memcg workload (in an artificial test, admittedly). Yet lib/idr.c was made suitable for RCU way back: revert that commit, restoring ss->id_lock to a spinlock. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/cgroup.h | 2 +- kernel/cgroup.c | 18 +++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- 3.2.0+.orig/include/linux/cgroup.h 2012-01-14 13:01:57.000000000 -0800 +++ 3.2.0+/include/linux/cgroup.h 2012-01-19 12:14:47.420233522 -0800 @@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ struct cgroup_subsys { struct list_head sibling; /* used when use_id == true */ struct idr idr; - rwlock_t id_lock; + spinlock_t id_lock; /* should be defined only by modular subsystems */ struct module *module; --- 3.2.0+.orig/kernel/cgroup.c 2012-01-14 13:01:57.000000000 -0800 +++ 3.2.0+/kernel/cgroup.c 2012-01-19 12:16:04.132235263 -0800 @@ -4939,9 +4939,9 @@ void free_css_id(struct cgroup_subsys *s rcu_assign_pointer(id->css, NULL); rcu_assign_pointer(css->id, NULL); - write_lock(&ss->id_lock); + spin_lock(&ss->id_lock); idr_remove(&ss->idr, id->id); - write_unlock(&ss->id_lock); + spin_unlock(&ss->id_lock); kfree_rcu(id, rcu_head); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(free_css_id); @@ -4967,10 +4967,10 @@ static struct css_id *get_new_cssid(stru error = -ENOMEM; goto err_out; } - write_lock(&ss->id_lock); + spin_lock(&ss->id_lock); /* Don't use 0. allocates an ID of 1-65535 */ error = idr_get_new_above(&ss->idr, newid, 1, &myid); - write_unlock(&ss->id_lock); + spin_unlock(&ss->id_lock); /* Returns error when there are no free spaces for new ID.*/ if (error) { @@ -4985,9 +4985,9 @@ static struct css_id *get_new_cssid(stru return newid; remove_idr: error = -ENOSPC; - write_lock(&ss->id_lock); + spin_lock(&ss->id_lock); idr_remove(&ss->idr, myid); - write_unlock(&ss->id_lock); + spin_unlock(&ss->id_lock); err_out: kfree(newid); return ERR_PTR(error); @@ -4999,7 +4999,7 @@ static int __init_or_module cgroup_init_ { struct css_id *newid; - rwlock_init(&ss->id_lock); + spin_lock_init(&ss->id_lock); idr_init(&ss->idr); newid = get_new_cssid(ss, 0); @@ -5094,9 +5094,9 @@ css_get_next(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, i * scan next entry from bitmap(tree), tmpid is updated after * idr_get_next(). */ - read_lock(&ss->id_lock); + spin_lock(&ss->id_lock); tmp = idr_get_next(&ss->idr, &tmpid); - read_unlock(&ss->id_lock); + spin_unlock(&ss->id_lock); if (!tmp) break; -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>