On Tue 17-12-13 11:13:39, Li Zefan wrote:
[...]
> From: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:45:09 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] cgroup: don't recycle cgroup id until all csses' have been destroyed
>
> Hugh reported this bug:
>
> > CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP is broken in 3.13-rc. Try something like this:
> >
> > mkdir -p /tmp/tmpfs /tmp/memcg
> > mount -t tmpfs -o size=1G tmpfs /tmp/tmpfs
> > mount -t cgroup -o memory memcg /tmp/memcg
> > mkdir /tmp/memcg/old
> > echo 512M >/tmp/memcg/old/memory.limit_in_bytes
> > echo $$ >/tmp/memcg/old/tasks
> > cp /dev/zero /tmp/tmpfs/zero 2>/dev/null
> > echo $$ >/tmp/memcg/tasks
> > rmdir /tmp/memcg/old
> > sleep 1 # let rmdir work complete
> > mkdir /tmp/memcg/new
> > umount /tmp/tmpfs
> > dmesg | grep WARNING
> > rmdir /tmp/memcg/new
> > umount /tmp/memcg
> >
> > Shows lots of WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 1006 at kernel/res_counter.c:91
> > res_counter_uncharge_locked+0x1f/0x2f()
> >
> > Breakage comes from 34c00c319ce7 ("memcg: convert to use cgroup id").
> >
> > The lifetime of a cgroup id is different from the lifetime of the
> > css id it replaced: memsw's css_get()s do nothing to hold on to the
> > old cgroup id, it soon gets recycled to a new cgroup, which then
> > mysteriously inherits the old's swap, without any charge for it.
>
> Instead of removing cgroup id right after all the csses have been
> offlined, we should do that after csses have been destroyed.
>
> To make sure an invalid css pointer won't be returned after the css
> is destroyed, make sure css_from_id() returns NULL in this case.
OK, so this will postpone idr_remove to css_free and until then
mem_cgroup_lookup finds a correct memcg. This will work as well.
It is basically the same thing we had with css_id AFAIR.
Originally I thought this wouldn't be possible because of the comment
above idr_remove for some reason.
> Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/cgroup.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
> index c36d906..769b5bb 100644
> --- a/kernel/cgroup.c
> +++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
> @@ -868,6 +868,15 @@ static void cgroup_diput(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode)
> struct cgroup *cgrp = dentry->d_fsdata;
>
> BUG_ON(!(cgroup_is_dead(cgrp)));
> +
> + /*
> + * We should remove the cgroup object from idr before its
> + * grace period starts, so we won't be looking up a cgroup
> + * while the cgroup is being freed.
> + */
> + idr_remove(&cgrp->root->cgroup_idr, cgrp->id);
> + cgrp->id = -1;
> +
> call_rcu(&cgrp->rcu_head, cgroup_free_rcu);
> } else {
> struct cfent *cfe = __d_cfe(dentry);
> @@ -4104,6 +4113,7 @@ static void css_release(struct percpu_ref *ref)
> struct cgroup_subsys_state *css =
> container_of(ref, struct cgroup_subsys_state, refcnt);
>
> + rcu_assign_pointer(css->cgroup->subsys[css->ss->subsys_id], NULL);
> call_rcu(&css->rcu_head, css_free_rcu_fn);
> }
>
> @@ -4545,14 +4555,6 @@ static void cgroup_destroy_css_killed(struct cgroup *cgrp)
> /* delete this cgroup from parent->children */
> list_del_rcu(&cgrp->sibling);
>
> - /*
> - * We should remove the cgroup object from idr before its grace
> - * period starts, so we won't be looking up a cgroup while the
> - * cgroup is being freed.
> - */
> - idr_remove(&cgrp->root->cgroup_idr, cgrp->id);
> - cgrp->id = -1;
> -
> dput(d);
>
> set_bit(CGRP_RELEASABLE, &parent->flags);
> --
> 1.8.0.2
>
>
>
>
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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