Re: [patch v2] mm: memcontrol: do not iterate uninitialized memcgs

Johannes Weiner
2014-09-25T13:54:50Z

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 01:43:39PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 24-09-14 22:40:55, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > Argh, buggy css_put() against the root. Hand grenades, everywhere.
> > Update:
> >
> > ---
> > From 9b0b4d72d71cd8acd7aaa58d2006c751decc8739 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Johannes Weiner <hannes-druUgvl0LCNAfugRpC6u6w@public.gmane.org>
> > Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 22:00:20 -0400
> > Subject: [patch] mm: memcontrol: do not iterate uninitialized memcgs
> >
> > The cgroup iterators yield css objects that have not yet gone through
> > css_online(), but they are not complete memcgs at this point and so
> > the memcg iterators should not return them. d8ad30559715 ("mm/memcg:
> > iteration skip memcgs not yet fully initialized") set out to implement
> > exactly this, but it uses CSS_ONLINE, a cgroup-internal flag that does
> > not meet the ordering requirements for memcg, and so we still may see
> > partially initialized memcgs from the iterators.
>
> I do not see how would this happen. CSS_ONLINE is set after css_online
> callback returns and mem_cgroup_css_online ends the core initialization
> with mutex_unlock which should provide sufficient memory ordering
> requirements

But the iterators do not use the mutex? We are missing the matching
acquire for the proper ordering.