Re: [RFC PATCH 1/7] cgroup: rstat: only disable interrupts for the percpu lock

[Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 6:36 AM Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com> wrote:
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> > >
> > > > 2. Are we really calling rstat flush in irq context?
> > >
> > > I think it is possible through the charge/uncharge path:
> > > memcg_check_events()->mem_cgroup_threshold()->mem_cgroup_usage(). I
> > > added the protection against flushing in an interrupt context for
> > > future callers as well, as it may cause a deadlock if we don't disable
> > > interrupts when acquiring cgroup_rstat_lock.
> > >
> > > > 3. The mem_cgroup_flush_stats() call in mem_cgroup_usage() is only
> > > > done for root memcg. Why is mem_cgroup_threshold() interested in root
> > > > memcg usage? Why not ignore root memcg in mem_cgroup_threshold() ?
> > >
> > > I am not sure, but the code looks like event notifications may be set
> > > up on root memcg, which is why we need to check thresholds.
> >
> > This is something we should deprecate as root memcg's usage is ill defined.
>
> Right, but I think this would be orthogonal to this patch series.
>

I don't think we can make cgroup_rstat_lock a non-irq-disabling lock
without either breaking a link between mem_cgroup_threshold and
cgroup_rstat_lock or make mem_cgroup_threshold work without disabling
irqs.

So, this patch can not be applied before either of those two tasks are
done (and we may find more such scenarios).