[PATCH] Revert "cgroup: use an ordered workqueue for cgroup destruction"

Tejun Heo
2014-02-13T00:09:46Z

>From 1a11533fbd71792e8c5d36f6763fbce8df0d231d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 19:06:19 -0500

This reverts commit ab3f5faa6255a0eb4f832675507d9e295ca7e9ba.
Explanation from Hugh:

It's because more thorough testing, by others here, found that it
wasn't always solving the problem: so I asked Tejun privately to
hold off from sending it in, until we'd worked out why not.

Most of our testing being on a v3,11-based kernel, it was perfectly
possible that the problem was merely our own e.g. missing Tejun's
8a2b75384444 ("workqueue: fix ordered workqueues in NUMA setups").

But that turned out not to be enough to fix it either. Then Filipe
pointed out how percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm() uses call_rcu_sched()
before we ever get to put the offline on to the workqueue: by the
time we get to the workqueue, the ordering has already been lost.

So, thanks for the Acks, but I'm afraid that this ordered workqueue
solution is just not good enough: we should simply forget that patch
and provide a different answer."

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
---
Queued to cgroup/for-3.14-fixes.

Thanks.

kernel/cgroup.c | 8 ++------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index 52719ce..68d8710 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -4844,16 +4844,12 @@ static int __init cgroup_wq_init(void)
/*
* There isn't much point in executing destruction path in
* parallel. Good chunk is serialized with cgroup_mutex anyway.
- *
- * XXX: Must be ordered to make sure parent is offlined after
- * children. The ordering requirement is for memcg where a
- * parent's offline may wait for a child's leading to deadlock. In
- * the long term, this should be fixed from memcg side.
+ * Use 1 for @max_active.
*
* We would prefer to do this in cgroup_init() above, but that
* is called before init_workqueues(): so leave this until after.
*/
- cgroup_destroy_wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("cgroup_destroy", 0);
+ cgroup_destroy_wq = alloc_workqueue("cgroup_destroy", 0, 1);
BUG_ON(!cgroup_destroy_wq);

/*
--
1.8.5.3