Re: [PATCH for-4.6-fixes] memcg: remove lru_add_drain_all() invocation from mem_cgroup_move_charge()

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Wed Apr 20 2016 - 23:27:20 EST


On Wed 20-04-16 17:29:22, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello, Michal.
>
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 08:07:48AM -0400, Michal Hocko wrote:
[...]
> > I liked your proposal when mem_cgroup_move_charge would be called from a
> > context which doesn't hold the problematic rwsem much more. Would that
> > be too intrusive for the stable backport?
>
> Yeah, I'm working on the fix but let's plug this one first as it seems
> really easy to trigger. I got a couple off-list reports (in and
> outside fb) of this triggering.

Sure, I think we can use this for an immediate workaround. Nevertheless
we want to have a full fix and do not rely on this being the only
problem. I would eventually like to reintroduce the draining later when
we have a better fix because even though this is not a correctness
problem I think we should try hard to not leave anything behind.

That being said:
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs