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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] mm, memcg: Don't put offlined memcg into local stock
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To:     Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
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On 1/31/22 12:19, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 12:15:19PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
>> On 1/31/22 12:09, Waiman Long wrote:
>>> On 1/31/22 12:01, Roman Gushchin wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 10:55:56PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
>>>>> On 10/1/21 19:51, Roman Gushchin wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 03:09:36PM -0400, Waiman Long wrote:
>>>>>>> When freeing a page associated with an offlined memcg, refill_stock()
>>>>>>> will put it into local stock delaying its demise until another memcg
>>>>>>> comes in to take its place in the stock. To avoid that, we now check
>>>>>>> for offlined memcg and go directly in this case to the slowpath for
>>>>>>> the uncharge via the repurposed cancel_charge() function.
>>>>>> Hi Waiman!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm afraid it can make a cleanup of a dying cgroup slower: for every
>>>>>> released page we'll potentially traverse the whole cgroup tree and
>>>>>> decrease atomic page counters.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not sure I understand the benefits we get from this change which
>>>>>> do justify the slowdown on the cleanup path.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>> I was notified of a lockdep splat that this patch may help to prevent.
>>>> Would you mind to test this patch:
>>>> https://www.spinics.net/lists/cgroups/msg31244.html  ?
>>>>
>>>> It should address this dependency.
>>> Thanks for the pointer. I believe that your patch should be able to
>>> address this circular locking dependency.
>>>
>>> Feel free to add my
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
>> BTW, have you posted it to lkml? If not, would you mind doing so?
> Not yet.
>
> I was waiting for Alexander to confirm that it resolves the originally reported
> issue. I just pinged him, will wait for tomorrow and post the patch in any case.
>
> Thanks!

I see. This is not a problem that is easily reproducible. You need to 
hit the right timing for the lockdep splat to appear.

Regards,
Longman