Commit 4fb1a86f authored by Filipe Brandenburger's avatar Filipe Brandenburger Committed by Linus Torvalds

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: e5fca243 ("cgroup: use a dedicated workqueue for cgroup destruction")
Signed-off-by: default avatarFilipe Brandenburger <filbranden@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[v3.10+]
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent ce48225f
......@@ -6595,6 +6595,7 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_offline(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
{
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(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
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);
}
......
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