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Daisuke Nishimura committed dfe076b0971
memcg: fix deadlock between cpuset and memcg
Commit b1dd693e ("memcg: avoid deadlock between move charge and
try_charge()") can cause another deadlock about mmap_sem on task migration
if cpuset and memcg are mounted onto the same mount point.
After the commit, cgroup_attach_task() has sequence like:
cgroup_attach_task()
ss->can_attach()
cpuset_can_attach()
mem_cgroup_can_attach()
down_read(&mmap_sem) (1)
ss->attach()
cpuset_attach()
mpol_rebind_mm()
down_write(&mmap_sem) (2)
up_write(&mmap_sem)
cpuset_migrate_mm()
do_migrate_pages()
down_read(&mmap_sem)
up_read(&mmap_sem)
mem_cgroup_move_task()
mem_cgroup_clear_mc()
up_read(&mmap_sem)
We can cause deadlock at (2) because we've already aquire the mmap_sem at (1).
But the commit itself is necessary to fix deadlocks which have existed
before the commit like:
Ex.1)
move charge | try charge
--------------------------------------+------------------------------
mem_cgroup_can_attach() | down_write(&mmap_sem)
mc.moving_task = current | ..
mem_cgroup_precharge_mc() | __mem_cgroup_try_charge()
mem_cgroup_count_precharge() | prepare_to_wait()
down_read(&mmap_sem) | if (mc.moving_task)
-> cannot aquire the lock | -> true
| schedule()
| -> move charge should wake it up
Ex.2)
move charge | try charge
--------------------------------------+------------------------------
mem_cgroup_can_attach() |
mc.moving_task = current |
mem_cgroup_precharge_mc() |
mem_cgroup_count_precharge() |
down_read(&mmap_sem) |
.. |
up_read(&mmap_sem) |
| down_write(&mmap_sem)
mem_cgroup_move_task() | ..
mem_cgroup_move_charge() | __mem_cgroup_try_charge()
down_read(&mmap_sem) | prepare_to_wait()
-> cannot aquire the lock | if (mc.moving_task)
| -> true
| schedule()
| -> move charge should wake it up
This patch fixes all of these problems by:
1. revert the commit.
2. To fix the Ex.1, we set mc.moving_task after mem_cgroup_count_precharge()
has released the mmap_sem.
3. To fix the Ex.2, we use down_read_trylock() instead of down_read() in
mem_cgroup_move_charge() and, if it has failed to aquire the lock, cancel
all extra charges, wake up all waiters, and retry trylock.
Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Reported-by: Ben Blum <bblum@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: Miao Xie <miaox@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Hiroyuki Kamezawa <kamezawa.hiroyuki@gmail.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>