Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: memcg: switch to css_tryget() in get_mem_cgroup_from_mm()

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On Wed 06-11-19 14:51:30, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> We've encountered a rcu stall in get_mem_cgroup_from_mm():
> 
>  rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
>  rcu: 33-....: (21000 ticks this GP) idle=6c6/1/0x4000000000000002 softirq=35441/35441 fqs=5017
>  (t=21031 jiffies g=324821 q=95837) NMI backtrace for cpu 33
>  <...>
>  RIP: 0010:get_mem_cgroup_from_mm+0x2f/0x90
>  <...>
>  __memcg_kmem_charge+0x55/0x140
>  __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x267/0x320
>  pipe_write+0x1ad/0x400
>  new_sync_write+0x127/0x1c0
>  __kernel_write+0x4f/0xf0
>  dump_emit+0x91/0xc0
>  writenote+0xa0/0xc0
>  elf_core_dump+0x11af/0x1430
>  do_coredump+0xc65/0xee0
>  ? unix_stream_sendmsg+0x37d/0x3b0
>  get_signal+0x132/0x7c0
>  do_signal+0x36/0x640
>  ? recalc_sigpending+0x17/0x50
>  exit_to_usermode_loop+0x61/0xd0
>  do_syscall_64+0xd4/0x100
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
> 
> The problem is caused by an exiting task which is associated with
> an offline memcg.

Hmm, how can we have a task in an offline memcg? I thought that any
existing task will prevent cgroup removal from proceeding. Is this some
sort of race where the task managed to disassociate from the cgroup
while there is still a binding to a memcg existing? What am I missing?

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs



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