Revision fb59e9f1e9786635ea12e12bf6adbb132e10f979 authored by Hugh Dickins on 04 March 2008, 22:29:16 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 05 March 2008, 00:35:15 UTC
While testing force_empty, during an exit_mmap, __mem_cgroup_remove_list called from mem_cgroup_uncharge_page oopsed on a NULL pointer in the lru list. I couldn't see what racing tasks on other cpus were doing, but surmise that another must have been in mem_cgroup_charge_common on the same page, between its unlock_page_cgroup and spin_lock_irqsave near done (thanks to that kzalloc which I'd almost changed to a kmalloc). Normally such a race cannot happen, the ref_cnt prevents it, the final uncharge cannot race with the initial charge. But force_empty buggers the ref_cnt, that's what it's all about; and thereafter forced pages are vulnerable to races such as this (just think of a shared page also mapped into an mm of another mem_cgroup than that just emptied). And remain vulnerable until they're freed indefinitely later. This patch just fixes the oops by moving the unlock_page_cgroups down below adding to and removing from the list (only possible given the previous patch); and while we're at it, we might as well make it an invariant that page->page_cgroup is always set while pc is on lru. But this behaviour of force_empty seems highly unsatisfactory to me: why have a ref_cnt if we always have to cope with it being violated (as in the earlier page migration patch). We may prefer force_empty to move pages to an orphan mem_cgroup (could be the root, but better not), from which other cgroups could recover them; we might need to reverse the locking again; but no time now for such concerns. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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cgroup_debug.c
/*
* kernel/ccontainer_debug.c - Example cgroup subsystem that
* exposes debug info
*
* Copyright (C) Google Inc, 2007
*
* Developed by Paul Menage (menage@google.com)
*
*/
#include <linux/cgroup.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <asm/atomic.h>
static struct cgroup_subsys_state *debug_create(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
struct cgroup *cont)
{
struct cgroup_subsys_state *css = kzalloc(sizeof(*css), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!css)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
return css;
}
static void debug_destroy(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cont)
{
kfree(cont->subsys[debug_subsys_id]);
}
static u64 cgroup_refcount_read(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft)
{
return atomic_read(&cont->count);
}
static u64 taskcount_read(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft)
{
u64 count;
cgroup_lock();
count = cgroup_task_count(cont);
cgroup_unlock();
return count;
}
static u64 current_css_set_read(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft)
{
return (u64)(long)current->cgroups;
}
static u64 current_css_set_refcount_read(struct cgroup *cont,
struct cftype *cft)
{
u64 count;
rcu_read_lock();
count = atomic_read(¤t->cgroups->ref.refcount);
rcu_read_unlock();
return count;
}
static struct cftype files[] = {
{
.name = "cgroup_refcount",
.read_uint = cgroup_refcount_read,
},
{
.name = "taskcount",
.read_uint = taskcount_read,
},
{
.name = "current_css_set",
.read_uint = current_css_set_read,
},
{
.name = "current_css_set_refcount",
.read_uint = current_css_set_refcount_read,
},
};
static int debug_populate(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct cgroup *cont)
{
return cgroup_add_files(cont, ss, files, ARRAY_SIZE(files));
}
struct cgroup_subsys debug_subsys = {
.name = "debug",
.create = debug_create,
.destroy = debug_destroy,
.populate = debug_populate,
.subsys_id = debug_subsys_id,
};
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