On Fri 15-04-16 15:17:19, Tejun Heo wrote:
> mem_cgroup_move_charge() invokes lru_add_drain_all() so that the pvec
> pages can be moved too. lru_add_drain_all() schedules and flushes
> work items on system_wq which depends on being able to create new
> kworkers to make forward progress. Since 1ed1328792ff ("sched,
> cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global
> percpu_rwsem"), a new task can't be created while in the cgroup
> migration path and the described lru_add_drain_all() invocation can
> easily lead to a deadlock.
>
> Charge moving is best-effort and whether the pvec pages are migrated
> or not doesn't really matter. Don't call it during charge moving.
> Eventually, we want to move the actual charge moving outside the
> migration path.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <t...@kernel.org>
> Reported-by: Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org>
I guess
Debugged-by: Petr Mladek <pmla...@suse.com>
Reported-by: Cyril Hrubis <chru...@suse.cz>
would be due
> Suggested-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@kernel.org>
> Fixes: 1ed1328792ff ("sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with
> a global percpu_rwsem")
> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org
> ---
> Hello,
>
> So, this deadlock seems pretty easy to trigger. We'll make the charge
> moving asynchronous eventually but let's not hold off fixing an
> immediate problem.
Although this looks rather straightforward and it fixes the immediate
problem I am little bit nervous about it. As already pointed out in
other email mem_cgroup_move_charge still depends on mmap_sem for
read and we might hit an even more subtle lockup if the current holder
of the mmap_sem for write depends on the task creation (e.g. some of the
direct reclaim path uses WQ which is really hard to rule out and I even
think that some shrinkers do this).
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?
> Thanks.
>
> mm/memcontrol.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 36db05f..56060c7 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -4859,7 +4859,6 @@ static void mem_cgroup_move_charge(struct mm_struct *mm)
> .mm = mm,
> };
>
> - lru_add_drain_all();
> /*
> * Signal lock_page_memcg() to take the memcg's move_lock
> * while we're moving its pages to another memcg. Then wait
--
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
