The current charge path might race with memcg offlining because holding
css reference doesn't neither prevent from task move to a different
group nor stop css offline. When a charging task is the last one in the
group and it is moved to a different group in the middle of the charge
the old memcg might get offlined. As a result res counter might be
charged after mem_cgroup_reparent_charges (called from memcg css_offline
callback) and so the charge would never be freed. This has been worked
around by 96f1c58d8534 (mm: memcg: fix race condition between memcg
teardown and swapin) which tries to catch such a leaked charges later
during css_free. It is more optimal to heal this race in the long term
though.
In order to make this raceless we have to check that the memcg is online
and res_counter_charge in the same RCU read section. The online check can
be done simply by calling css_tryget & css_put which are now wrapped
into mem_cgroup_is_online helper.
Callers are then updated to retry with a new memcg which is associated
with the current mm. There always has to be a valid memcg encountered
sooner or later because task had to be moved to a valid and online
cgroup.
The only exception is mem_cgroup_do_precharge which should never see
this race because it is called from cgroup {can_}attach callbacks and so
the whole cgroup cannot go away.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.cz>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 70 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 66 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 2fcdee529ad3..d06743a9a765 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2624,8 +2624,31 @@ enum {
CHARGE_RETRY, /* need to retry but retry is not bad */
CHARGE_NOMEM, /* we can't do more. return -ENOMEM */
CHARGE_WOULDBLOCK, /* GFP_WAIT wasn't set and no enough res. */
+ CHARGE_OFFLINE, /* memcg is offline already so no further
+ * charges are allowed
+ */
};
+/*
+ * Checks whether given memcg is still online (css_offline hasn't
+ * been called yet).
+ *
+ * Caller has to hold rcu read lock.
+ */
+static bool mem_cgroup_is_online(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
+{
+ bool online;
+
+ rcu_read_lock_held();
+
+ online = css_tryget(&memcg->css);
+ if (online)
+ css_put(&memcg->css);
+
+ return online;
+
+}
+
static int mem_cgroup_do_charge(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
unsigned int nr_pages, unsigned int min_pages,
bool invoke_oom)
@@ -2636,20 +2659,37 @@ static int mem_cgroup_do_charge(struct mem_cgroup
*memcg, gfp_t gfp_mask,
unsigned long flags = 0;
int ret;
+ /*
+ * Although the holder keeps a css reference for memcg this doesn't
+ * prevent it from being offlined in the meantime. We have to make sure
+ * that res counter is charged before css_offline reparents its pages
+ * otherwise the charge might leak. Therefore both css_tryget has to
+ * happen in the same rcu read section as res_counter charge.
+ */
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ if (unlikely(!mem_cgroup_is_online(memcg))) {
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+ return CHARGE_OFFLINE;
+ }
ret = res_counter_charge(&memcg->res, csize, &fail_res);
-
if (likely(!ret)) {
- if (!do_swap_account)
+ if (!do_swap_account) {
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return CHARGE_OK;
+ }
ret = res_counter_charge(&memcg->memsw, csize, &fail_res);
- if (likely(!ret))
+ if (likely(!ret)) {
+ rcu_read_unlock();
return CHARGE_OK;
+ }
res_counter_uncharge(&memcg->res, csize);
mem_over_limit = mem_cgroup_from_res_counter(fail_res, memsw);
flags |= MEM_CGROUP_RECLAIM_NOSWAP;
} else
mem_over_limit = mem_cgroup_from_res_counter(fail_res, res);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
/*
* Never reclaim on behalf of optional batching, retry with a
* single page instead.
@@ -2756,6 +2796,12 @@ static int mem_cgroup_try_charge_memcg(gfp_t gfp_mask,
goto nomem;
nr_oom_retries--;
break;
+ /*
+ * memcg went offline, the caller should fallback to
+ * a different group.
+ */
+ case CHARGE_OFFLINE:
+ return -EAGAIN;
}
} while (ret != CHARGE_OK);
@@ -2783,6 +2829,7 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_try_charge_mm(struct
mm_struct *mm,
int ret;
VM_BUG_ON(!mm);
+again:
memcg = try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(mm);
if (!memcg)
goto bypass;
@@ -2793,6 +2840,8 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_try_charge_mm(struct
mm_struct *mm,
goto bypass;
else if (ret == -ENOMEM)
memcg = NULL;
+ else if (ret == -EAGAIN)
+ goto again;
return memcg;
bypass:
return root_mem_cgroup;
@@ -3617,6 +3666,7 @@ __memcg_kmem_newpage_charge(gfp_t gfp, struct mem_cgroup
**_memcg, int order)
if (!current->mm || current->memcg_kmem_skip_account)
return true;
+again:
memcg = try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(current->mm);
/*
@@ -3633,10 +3683,12 @@ __memcg_kmem_newpage_charge(gfp_t gfp, struct
mem_cgroup **_memcg, int order)
}
ret = memcg_charge_kmem(memcg, gfp, PAGE_SIZE << order);
+ css_put(&memcg->css);
if (!ret)
*_memcg = memcg;
+ else if (ret == -EAGAIN)
+ goto again;
- css_put(&memcg->css);
return (ret == 0);
}
@@ -3959,6 +4011,8 @@ static int __mem_cgroup_try_charge_swapin(struct
mm_struct *mm,
if (ret == -EINTR) {
*memcgp = root_mem_cgroup;
ret = 0;
+ } else if (ret == -EAGAIN) {
+ goto charge_cur_mm;
}
return ret;
charge_cur_mm:
@@ -6657,6 +6711,14 @@ one_by_one:
cond_resched();
}
ret = mem_cgroup_try_charge_memcg(GFP_KERNEL, 1, memcg, false);
+
+ /*
+ * The target memcg cannot go offline because we are in
+ * move path and cgroup core doesn't allow to offline
+ * such groups.
+ */
+ BUG_ON(ret == -EAGAIN);
+
if (ret)
/* mem_cgroup_clear_mc() will do uncharge later */
return ret;
--
1.9.rc1
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