From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx188.postini.com [74.125.245.188]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5443C6B0002 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2013 11:24:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 17:24:42 +0100 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] memcg: remove memcg from the reclaim iterators Message-ID: <20130212162442.GJ4863@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <20130211151649.GD19922@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20130211175619.GC13218@cmpxchg.org> <20130211192929.GB29000@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20130211195824.GB15951@cmpxchg.org> <20130211212756.GC29000@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20130211223943.GC15951@cmpxchg.org> <20130212095419.GB4863@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20130212151002.GD15951@cmpxchg.org> <20130212154330.GG4863@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20130212161332.GI4863@dhcp22.suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130212161332.GI4863@dhcp22.suse.cz> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Johannes Weiner Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , Ying Han , Tejun Heo , Glauber Costa , Li Zefan On Tue 12-02-13 17:13:32, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Tue 12-02-13 16:43:30, Michal Hocko wrote: > [...] > The example was not complete: > > > Wait a moment. But what prevents from the following race? > > > > rcu_read_lock() > > cgroup_next_descendant_pre > css_tryget(css); > memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(css) atomic_add(CSS_DEACT_BIAS, &css->refcnt) > > > mem_cgroup_css_offline(memcg) > > We should be safe if we did synchronize_rcu() before root->dead_count++, > no? > Because then we would have a guarantee that if css_tryget(memcg) > suceeded then we wouldn't race with dead_count++ it triggered. > > > root->dead_count++ > > iter->last_dead_count = root->dead_count > > iter->last_visited = memcg > > // final > > css_put(memcg); > > // last_visited is still valid > > rcu_read_unlock() > > [...] > > // next iteration > > rcu_read_lock() > > iter->last_dead_count == root->dead_count > > // KABOOM Ohh I have missed that we took a reference on the current memcg which will be stored into last_visited. And then later, during the next iteration it will be still alive until we are done because previous patch moved css_put to the very end. So this race is not possible. I still need to think about parallel iteration and a race with removal. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org