Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: memcg: switch to css_tryget() in get_mem_cgroup_from_mm()

Michal Hocko
2019-11-22T08:20:07Z

On Thu 21-11-19 16:28:47, Michal Koutny wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 05:08:29PM +0000, Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> wrote:
> > The thing here is that css_tryget_online() cannot pin the online state,
> > so even if returned true, the cgroup can be offline at the return from
> > the function.
> Adding this for the record.
>
> The actual offlining happens only from css_killed_ref_fn, which is
> percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm confirmation callback. That is only called
> after RCU grace period. So, css_tryget_online will pin the online state
> _inside_ rcu_read_{,un}lock section.

Thanks for the confirmation. Maybe we should start with a trivial patch
and document this first. We can go and cleanup bogus users on top.
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs