The patch titled memcg: force_emtpy fix to confirm cgroup has no tasks has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is memcg-new-force_empty-to-free-pages-under-group-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: memcg: force_emtpy fix to confirm cgroup has no tasks From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Now, force_empty can be called and do reclaim pages while there are tasks. fix it. (reclaim occurs but move doesn't occur in this case.) And, we have interface to count # of tasks under cgroup. Using it is better. Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-new-force_empty-to-free-pages-under-group-fix mm/memcontrol.c --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-new-force_empty-to-free-pages-under-group-fix +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -1067,6 +1067,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_force_empty(struct int ret; int node, zid, shrink; int nr_retries = MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_RETRIES; + struct cgroup *cgrp = mem->css.cgroup; css_get(&mem->css); @@ -1077,7 +1078,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_force_empty(struct move_account: while (mem->res.usage > 0) { ret = -EBUSY; - if (atomic_read(&mem->css.cgroup->count) > 0) + if (cgroup_task_count(cgrp) || !list_empty(&cgrp->children)) goto out; ret = -EINTR; if (signal_pending(current)) @@ -1111,8 +1112,10 @@ out: return ret; try_to_free: - /* returns EBUSY if we come here twice. */ - if (shrink) { + /* returns EBUSY if there is a task or if we come here twice. */ + if (cgroup_task_count(cgrp) + || !list_empty(&cgrp->children) + || shrink) { ret = -EBUSY; goto out; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are memcg-memory-hotplug-fix-for-notifier-callback.patch vmscan-evict-streaming-io-first.patch mm-gup-persist-for-write-permission.patch mm-wp-lock-page-before-deciding-cow.patch mm-reuse_swap_page-replaces-can_share_swap_page.patch mm-try_to_free_swap-replaces-remove_exclusive_swap_page.patch mm-try_to_unuse-check-removing-right-swap.patch mm-remove-try_to_munlock-from-vmscan.patch mm-remove-gfp_mask-from-add_to_swap.patch mm-add-add_to_swap-stub.patch mm-optimize-get_scan_ratio-for-no-swap.patch memcg-reclaim-shouldnt-change-zone-recent_rotated-statistics.patch cgroups-make-cgroup-config-a-submenu.patch cgroups-documentation-updates.patch cgroups-remove-some-redundant-null-checks.patch ns_cgroup-remove-unused-spinlock.patch memcg-fix-a-typo-in-kconfig.patch cgroups-add-lock-for-child-cgroups-in-cgroup_post_fork.patch cgroups-fix-cgroup_iter_next-bug.patch cgroups-dont-put-struct-cgroupfs_root-protected-by-rcu.patch cgroups-use-task_lock-for-access-tsk-cgroups-safe-in-cgroup_clone.patch cgroups-call-find_css_set-safely-in-cgroup_attach_task.patch cgroups-remove-rcu_read_lock-in-cgroupstats_build.patch devcgroup-use-list_for_each_entry_rcu.patch memcg-introduce-charge-commit-cancel-style-of-functions.patch memcg-introduce-charge-commit-cancel-style-of-functions-fix.patch memcg-fix-gfp_mask-of-callers-of-charge.patch memcg-simple-migration-handling.patch memcg-do-not-recalculate-section-unnecessarily-in-init_section_page_cgroup.patch memcg-move-all-acccounts-to-parent-at-rmdir.patch memcg-reduce-size-of-mem_cgroup-by-using-nr_cpu_ids.patch memcg-new-force_empty-to-free-pages-under-group.patch memcg-new-force_empty-to-free-pages-under-group-fix.patch memcg-new-force_empty-to-free-pages-under-group-fix-fix.patch memcg-handle-swap-caches.patch memcg-handle-swap-caches-build-fix.patch memcg-memswap-controller-kconfig.patch memcg-swap-cgroup-for-remembering-usage.patch memcg-memswap-controller-core.patch memcg-memswap-controller-core-make-resize-limit-hold-mutex.patch memcg-memswap-controller-core-swapcache-fixes.patch memcg-synchronized-lru.patch memcg-add-mem_cgroup_disabled.patch memcg-add-mem_cgroup_disabled-fix.patch memory-cgroup-hierarchy-documentation-v4.patch memory-cgroup-resource-counters-for-hierarchy-v4.patch memory-cgroup-resource-counters-for-hierarchy-v4-checkpatch-fixes.patch memory-cgroup-hierarchical-reclaim-v4.patch memory-cgroup-hierarchical-reclaim-v4-checkpatch-fixes.patch memory-cgroup-hierarchical-reclaim-v4-fix-for-hierarchical-reclaim.patch memory-cgroup-hierarchy-feature-selector-v4.patch memory-cgroup-hierarchy-feature-selector-v4-fix.patch memcontrol-rcu_read_lock-to-protect-mm_match_cgroup.patch memcg-avoid-unnecessary-system-wide-oom-killer.patch memcg-avoid-unnecessary-system-wide-oom-killer-fix.patch memcg-fix-reclaim-result-checks.patch cpuset-rcu_read_lock-to-protect-task_cs.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html