3.13-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 4fb1a86fb5e4209a7d4426d4e586c58e9edc74ac 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(). 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> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 15 ++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -6360,11 +6360,24 @@ static void mem_cgroup_invalidate_reclai static void mem_cgroup_css_offline(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css) { struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css); + struct cgroup_subsys_state *iter; 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. + */ + rcu_read_lock(); + css_for_each_descendant_post(iter, css) { + rcu_read_unlock(); + mem_cgroup_reparent_charges(mem_cgroup_from_css(iter)); + rcu_read_lock(); + } + rcu_read_unlock(); + mem_cgroup_destroy_all_caches(memcg); vmpressure_cleanup(&memcg->vmpressure); } -- 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