From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] cgroup: use cgroup->self.refcnt for cgroup refcnting Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 13:07:14 -0600 Message-ID: <53751062.2050401@wwwdotorg.org> References: <1399670015-23463-1-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> <1399670015-23463-10-git-send-email-tj@kernel.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1399670015-23463-10-git-send-email-tj-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-tegra-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Tejun Heo , lizefan-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org Cc: cgroups-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, "linux-tegra-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , ARM kernel mailing list On 05/09/2014 03:13 PM, Tejun Heo wrote: > Currently cgroup implements refcnting separately using atomic_t > cgroup->refcnt. The destruction paths of cgroup and css are rather > complex and bear a lot of similiarities including the use of RCU and > bouncing to a work item. > > This patch makes cgroup use the refcnt of self css for refcnting > instead of using its own. This makes cgroup refcnting use css's > percpu refcnt and share the destruction mechanism. >... In next-20150515, this patch causes silent boot failures on NVIDIA Tegra ARM systems. There isn't even any earlyprintk. Reverting this one patch solves this. I was a bit surprised that cgroups would cause such an issue, but looking at a normal kernel boot, I guess cgroup does get initialized very early: Uncompressing Linux... done, booting the kernel. [ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0 [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpu [ 0.000000] Initializing cgroup subsys cpuacct Anyway, I'll try to track down what the problem is, but if someone familiar with this patch could give it a look, that'd be very useful, since I'm not at all familiar with this code or feature.