Re: [PATCH 4/6] cgroups: forbid pre_destroy callback to fail

[Michal Hocko]

On Fri 19-10-12 17:33:18, Li Zefan wrote:
> On 2012/10/17 21:30, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > Now that mem_cgroup_pre_destroy callback doesn't fail finally we can
> > safely move on and forbit all the callbacks to fail. The last missing
> > piece is moving cgroup_call_pre_destroy after cgroup_clear_css_refs so
> > that css_tryget fails so no new charges for the memcg can happen.
> 
> > The callbacks are also called from within cgroup_lock to guarantee that
> > no new tasks show up. 
> 
> I'm afraid this won't work. See commit 3fa59dfbc3b223f02c26593be69ce6fc9a940405
> ("cgroup: fix potential deadlock in pre_destroy")

Very good point. Thanks for poiting this out. So we should call
pre_destroy at the very end? What about the following?
Or should be rather drop the lock after check_for_release(parent) or
sooner but after CGRP_REMOVED is set?
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