This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cgroup: use an ordered workqueue for cgroup destruction
to the 3.13-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
cgroup-use-an-ordered-workqueue-for-cgroup-destruction.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.13 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From ab3f5faa6255a0eb4f832675507d9e295ca7e9ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 15:56:01 -0800
Subject: cgroup: use an ordered workqueue for cgroup destruction
From: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit ab3f5faa6255a0eb4f832675507d9e295ca7e9ba upstream.
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.
tj: Committing as the temporary fix until the reverse dependency can
be removed from memcg. Comment updated accordingly.
Fixes: e5fca243abae ("cgroup: use a dedicated workqueue for cgroup destruction")
Suggested-by: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/cgroup.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -5093,12 +5093,16 @@ static int __init cgroup_wq_init(void)
/*
* There isn't much point in executing destruction path in
* parallel. Good chunk is serialized with cgroup_mutex anyway.
- * Use 1 for @max_active.
+ *
+ * XXX: Must be ordered to make sure parent is offlined after
+ * children. The ordering requirement is for memcg where a
+ * parent's offline may wait for a child's leading to deadlock. In
+ * the long term, this should be fixed from memcg side.
*
* We would prefer to do this in cgroup_init() above, but that
* is called before init_workqueues(): so leave this until after.
*/
- cgroup_destroy_wq = alloc_workqueue("cgroup_destroy", 0, 1);
+ cgroup_destroy_wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("cgroup_destroy", 0);
BUG_ON(!cgroup_destroy_wq);
return 0;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from hughd@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.13/cgroup-use-an-ordered-workqueue-for-cgroup-destruction.patch
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