From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
To: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: Remove memcg_cgroup::id from IDR on mem_cgroup_css_alloc() failure
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2018 11:31:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180730153113.GB4567@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180729192621.py4znecoinw5mqcp@esperanza>
On Sun, Jul 29, 2018 at 10:26:21PM +0300, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 03:31:34PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > That said, the lifetime of the root reference on the ID is the online
> > state, we put that in css_offline. Is there a reason we need to have
> > the ID ready and the memcg in the IDR before onlining it?
>
> I fail to see any reason for this in the code.
Me neither, thanks for double checking.
The patch also survives stress testing cgroup creation and destruction
with the script from 73f576c04b94 ("mm: memcontrol: fix cgroup
creation failure after many small jobs").
> > Can we do something like this and not mess with the alloc/free
> > sequence at all?
>
> I guess so, and this definitely looks better to me.
Cool, then I think we should merge Kirill's patch as the fix and mine
as a follow-up cleanup.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-30 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-12 14:52 Kirill Tkhai
2018-04-13 8:55 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-13 9:35 ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-04-13 11:02 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-13 11:06 ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-04-13 11:20 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-13 11:29 ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-04-13 11:38 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-13 11:49 ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-04-13 11:54 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-13 12:07 ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-04-13 12:14 ` Michal Hocko
2018-04-13 12:51 ` Michal Hocko
2018-07-26 23:25 ` Andrew Morton
2018-07-27 19:31 ` Johannes Weiner
2018-07-29 19:26 ` Vladimir Davydov
2018-07-30 15:31 ` Johannes Weiner [this message]
2018-07-31 23:39 ` Andrew Morton
2018-08-01 15:55 ` Johannes Weiner
2018-08-01 16:22 ` Vladimir Davydov
2018-08-02 8:03 ` Kirill Tkhai
2018-08-02 8:13 ` [PATCH] memcg: Add comment to mem_cgroup_css_online() Kirill Tkhai
2018-08-01 16:16 ` [PATCH] memcg: Remove memcg_cgroup::id from IDR on mem_cgroup_css_alloc() failure Vladimir Davydov
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