Subject: + memcg-reparent-charges-of-children-before-processing-parent.patch added to -mm tree To: filbranden@xxxxxxxxxx,hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx,hughd@xxxxxxxxxx,mhocko@xxxxxxx,stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,tj@xxxxxxxxxx From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:58:00 -0800 The patch titled Subject: memcg: reparent charges of children before processing parent has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is memcg-reparent-charges-of-children-before-processing-parent.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/memcg-reparent-charges-of-children-before-processing-parent.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/memcg-reparent-charges-of-children-before-processing-parent.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 *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: memcg: reparent charges of children before processing parent 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(). Further testing showed that an ordered workqueue for cgroup_destroy_wq is not always good enough: percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm's call_rcu_sched stage on the way can mess up the order before reaching the workqueue. Instead, when offlining a memcg, call mem_cgroup_reparent_charges() on all its children (and grandchildren, in the correct order) to have their charges reparented first. Fixes: e5fca243abae ("cgroup: use a dedicated workqueue for cgroup destruction") Signed-off-by: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [v3.10+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-reparent-charges-of-children-before-processing-parent mm/memcontrol.c --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-reparent-charges-of-children-before-processing-parent +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -6595,6 +6595,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_offline(struc { struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css); struct mem_cgroup_event *event, *tmp; + struct cgroup_subsys_state *iter; /* * Unregister events and notify userspace. @@ -6611,7 +6612,14 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_offline(struc kmem_cgroup_css_offline(memcg); mem_cgroup_invalidate_reclaim_iterators(memcg); - mem_cgroup_reparent_charges(memcg); + + /* + * This requires that offlining is serialized. Right now that is + * guaranteed because css_killed_work_fn() holds the cgroup_mutex. + */ + css_for_each_descendant_post(iter, css) + mem_cgroup_reparent_charges(mem_cgroup_from_css(iter)); + mem_cgroup_destroy_all_caches(memcg); vmpressure_cleanup(&memcg->vmpressure); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from filbranden@xxxxxxxxxx are memcg-reparent-charges-of-children-before-processing-parent.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html