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authorMichal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>2014-01-24 03:53:35 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-01-24 04:36:53 +0400
commitecc736fc3c71c411a9d201d8588c9e7e049e5d8c (patch)
treebc150baf2dbb0a8374c69e7c2c2d53c1d0d36777 /mm
parentd49ad9355420c743c736bfd1dee9eaa5b1a7722a (diff)
downloadlinux-ecc736fc3c71c411a9d201d8588c9e7e049e5d8c.tar.xz
memcg: fix endless loop caused by mem_cgroup_iter
Hugh has reported an endless loop when the hardlimit reclaim sees the same group all the time. This might happen when the reclaim races with the memcg removal. shrink_zone [rmdir root] mem_cgroup_iter(root, NULL, reclaim) // prev = NULL rcu_read_lock() mem_cgroup_iter_load last_visited = iter->last_visited // gets root || NULL css_tryget(last_visited) // failed last_visited = NULL [1] memcg = root = __mem_cgroup_iter_next(root, NULL) mem_cgroup_iter_update iter->last_visited = root; reclaim->generation = iter->generation mem_cgroup_iter(root, root, reclaim) // prev = root rcu_read_lock mem_cgroup_iter_load last_visited = iter->last_visited // gets root css_tryget(last_visited) // failed [1] The issue seemed to be introduced by commit 5f5781619718 ("memcg: relax memcg iter caching") which has replaced unconditional css_get/css_put by css_tryget/css_put for the cached iterator. This patch fixes the issue by skipping css_tryget on the root of the tree walk in mem_cgroup_iter_load and symmetrically doesn't release it in mem_cgroup_iter_update. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reported-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Tested-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.10+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/memcontrol.c17
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index c8336e8f8df0..da07784dde87 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1158,7 +1158,15 @@ mem_cgroup_iter_load(struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_iter *iter,
if (iter->last_dead_count == *sequence) {
smp_rmb();
position = iter->last_visited;
- if (position && !css_tryget(&position->css))
+
+ /*
+ * We cannot take a reference to root because we might race
+ * with root removal and returning NULL would end up in
+ * an endless loop on the iterator user level when root
+ * would be returned all the time.
+ */
+ if (position && position != root &&
+ !css_tryget(&position->css))
position = NULL;
}
return position;
@@ -1167,9 +1175,11 @@ mem_cgroup_iter_load(struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_iter *iter,
static void mem_cgroup_iter_update(struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_iter *iter,
struct mem_cgroup *last_visited,
struct mem_cgroup *new_position,
+ struct mem_cgroup *root,
int sequence)
{
- if (last_visited)
+ /* root reference counting symmetric to mem_cgroup_iter_load */
+ if (last_visited && last_visited != root)
css_put(&last_visited->css);
/*
* We store the sequence count from the time @last_visited was
@@ -1244,7 +1254,8 @@ struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_iter(struct mem_cgroup *root,
memcg = __mem_cgroup_iter_next(root, last_visited);
if (reclaim) {
- mem_cgroup_iter_update(iter, last_visited, memcg, seq);
+ mem_cgroup_iter_update(iter, last_visited, memcg, root,
+ seq);
if (!memcg)
iter->generation++;