Re: [PATCH RFC] memcg: fix drain_all_stock crash

[KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki]

On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 12:09:44 +0200
Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue 09-08-11 18:53:13, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 11:45:03 +0200
> > Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue 09-08-11 18:32:16, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 9 Aug 2011 11:31:50 +0200
> > > > Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > What do you think about the half backed patch bellow? I didn't manage to
> > > > > test it yet but I guess it should help. I hate asymmetry of drain_lock
> > > > > locking (it is acquired somewhere else than it is released which is
> > > > > not). I will think about a nicer way how to do it.
> > > > > Maybe I should also split the rcu part in a separate patch.
> > > > > 
> > > > > What do you think?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I'd like to revert 8521fc50 first and consider total design change
> > > > rather than ad-hoc fix.
> > > 
> > > Agreed. Revert should go into 3.0 stable as well. Although the global
> > > mutex is buggy we have that behavior for a long time without any reports.
> > > We should address it but it can wait for 3.2.
> 
> I will send the revert request to Linus.
> 
> > What "buggy" means here ? "problematic" or "cause OOps ?"
> 
> I have described that in an earlier email. Consider pathological case
> when CPU0 wants to async. drain a memcg which has a lot of cached charges while
> CPU1 is already draining so it holds the mutex. CPU0 backs off so it has
> to reclaim although we could prevent from it by getting rid of cached
> charges. This is not critical though.
> 

That problem should be fixed by background reclaim.
I'll do it after fixing numascan. (and dirty-ratio problem...)

Thanks,
-Kame

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