On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 03:56:01PM -0800, Hugh Dickins wrote: > Sometimes the cleanup after memcg hierarchy testing gets stuck in > mem_cgroup_reparent_charges(), unable to bring non-kmem usage down to 0. > > There may turn out to be several causes, but a major cause is this: the > workitem to offline parent can get run before workitem to offline child; > parent's mem_cgroup_reparent_charges() circles around waiting for the > child's pages to be reparented to its lrus, but it's holding cgroup_mutex > which prevents the child from reaching its mem_cgroup_reparent_charges(). > > Just use an ordered workqueue for cgroup_destroy_wq. > > Fixes: e5fca243abae ("cgroup: use a dedicated workqueue for cgroup destruction") > Suggested-by: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 3.10+ Applied to cgroup/for-3.14-fixes with comment updated to indicate that this is temporary. Thanks. -- tejun -- 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/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx"> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>