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| author | KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2009-10-01 15:44:08 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-10-01 16:11:12 -0700 |
| commit | 26251eaf98e26dc2ce2dc26d63bc502700760704 (patch) | |
| tree | f783cab10c5244c170e7d1a92b6a80c574cdf114 /mm | |
| parent | 447e4460a4ef44a275f81d992d227f34673be2a8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-next-26251eaf98e26dc2ce2dc26d63bc502700760704.tar.gz | |
memcg: fix refcnt going negative
__mem_cgroup_largest_soft_limit_node() returns a mem_cgroup_per_zone "mz"
with incremnted mz->mem->css's refcnt. Then, the caller of this function
has to call css_put(mz->mem->css).
But, mz can be !NULL even if "not found" i.e. without css_get(). By
this, css->refcnt will go down to minus.
This may cause various things...one of results will be
initite-loop in css_tryget() as this.
INFO: RCU detected CPU 0 stall (t=10000 jiffies)
sending NMI to all CPUs:
NMI backtrace for cpu 0
CPU 0:
<snip>
<<EOE>> <IRQ> [<ffffffff810884bd>] trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10
[<ffffffff8102a940>] flat_send_IPI_mask+0x90/0xb0
[<ffffffff8102a9c9>] flat_send_IPI_all+0x69/0x70
[<ffffffff81027372>] arch_trigger_all_cpu_backtrace+0x62/0xa0
[<ffffffff810bff8e>] __rcu_pending+0x7e/0x370
[<ffffffff810c02c7>] rcu_check_callbacks+0x47/0x130
[<ffffffff81063a26>] update_process_times+0x46/0x70
[<ffffffff81085930>] tick_sched_timer+0x60/0x160
[<ffffffff810858d0>] ? tick_sched_timer+0x0/0x160
[<ffffffff8107a03a>] __run_hrtimer+0xba/0x150
[<ffffffff8107a325>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xd5/0x1b0
[<ffffffff81426dfe>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x3a/0x3c
[<ffffffff8142cacd>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6d/0x9b
[<ffffffff8100cb33>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20
<EOI> [<ffffffff811317b6>] ? mem_cgroup_walk_tree+0x156/0x180
[<ffffffff811316d3>] ? mem_cgroup_walk_tree+0x73/0x180
[<ffffffff81131692>] ? mem_cgroup_walk_tree+0x32/0x180
[<ffffffff81131a00>] ? mem_cgroup_get_local_stat+0x0/0x110
[<ffffffff81131d5b>] ? mem_control_stat_show+0x14b/0x330
[<ffffffff810a57fd>] ? cgroup_seqfile_show+0x3d/0x60
Above shows CPU0 caught in css_tryget()'s inifinite loop because
of bad refcnt.
This is a fix to set mz=NULL at the top of retry path.
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memcontrol.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index e2b98a6875c0..21a30629ca80 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -447,9 +447,10 @@ static struct mem_cgroup_per_zone * __mem_cgroup_largest_soft_limit_node(struct mem_cgroup_tree_per_zone *mctz) { struct rb_node *rightmost = NULL; - struct mem_cgroup_per_zone *mz = NULL; + struct mem_cgroup_per_zone *mz; retry: + mz = NULL; rightmost = rb_last(&mctz->rb_root); if (!rightmost) goto done; /* Nothing to reclaim from */ |