This is for 3.12. smp_store_release() and smp_load_acquire() were
introduced only later, so this backport uses basic r/w barriers:
---
>From 3c2bc304874d63d2c35924a66b0985f623eac8fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 16:16:57 -0700
Subject: [patch] mm: memcontrol: do not iterate uninitialized memcgs
commit 2f7dd7a4100ad4affcb141605bef178ab98ccb18 upstream.
The cgroup iterators yield css objects that have not yet gone through
css_online(), but they are not complete memcgs at this point and so the
memcg iterators should not return them. Commit d8ad30559715 ("mm/memcg:
iteration skip memcgs not yet fully initialized") set out to implement
exactly this, but it uses CSS_ONLINE, a cgroup-internal flag that does
not meet the ordering requirements for memcg, and so the iterator may
skip over initialized groups, or return partially initialized memcgs.
The cgroup core can not reasonably provide a clear answer on whether the
object around the css has been fully initialized, as that depends on
controller-specific locking and lifetime rules. Thus, introduce a
memcg-specific flag that is set after the memcg has been initialized in
css_online(), and read before mem_cgroup_iter() callers access the memcg
members.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [3.12+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 4e705ed74b81..ff648969e402 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -250,6 +250,9 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
/* vmpressure notifications */
struct vmpressure vmpressure;
+ /* css_online() has been completed */
+ int initialized;
+
/*
* the counter to account for mem+swap usage.
*/
@@ -1089,9 +1092,23 @@ skip_node:
* skipping css reference should be safe.
*/
if (next_css) {
- if ((next_css == &root->css) ||
- ((next_css->flags & CSS_ONLINE) && css_tryget(next_css)))
- return mem_cgroup_from_css(next_css);
+ struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(next_css);
+
+ if (next_css == &root->css)
+ return memcg;
+
+ if (css_tryget(next_css)) {
+ if (memcg->initialized) {
+ /*
+ * Make sure the memcg is initialized:
+ * mem_cgroup_css_online() orders the the
+ * initialization against setting the flag.
+ */
+ smp_rmb();
+ return memcg;
+ }
+ css_put(next_css);
+ }
prev_css = next_css;
goto skip_node;
@@ -6331,6 +6348,16 @@ mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
error = memcg_init_kmem(memcg, &mem_cgroup_subsys);
mutex_unlock(&memcg_create_mutex);
+
+ if (!error) {
+ /*
+ * Make sure the memcg is initialized: mem_cgroup_iter()
+ * orders reading memcg->initialized against its callers
+ * reading the memcg members.
+ */
+ smp_wmb();
+ memcg->initialized = 1;
+ }
return error;
}
--
2.1.2
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