Commit 9ab322ca authored Dec 15, 2009 by Daisuke Nishimura Committed by Linus Torvalds Dec 16, 2009

memcg: remove memcg_tasklist

memcg_tasklist was introduced at commit 7f4d454d(memcg: avoid deadlock
caused by race between oom and cpuset_attach) instead of cgroup_mutex to
fix a deadlock problem. The cgroup_mutex, which was removed by the
commit, in mem_cgroup_out_of_memory() was originally introduced at commit
c7ba5c9e (Memory controller: OOM handling).

IIUC, the intention of this cgroup_mutex was to prevent task move during
select_bad_process() so that situations like below can be avoided.

Assume cgroup "foo" has exceeded its limit and is about to trigger oom.
1. Process A, which has been in cgroup "baa" and uses large memory, is just
moved to cgroup "foo". Process A can be the candidates for being killed.
2. Process B, which has been in cgroup "foo" and uses large memory, is just
moved from cgroup "foo". Process B can be excluded from the candidates for
being killed.

But these race window exists anyway even if we hold a lock, because
__mem_cgroup_try_charge() decides wether it should trigger oom or not
outside of the lock. So the original cgroup_mutex in
mem_cgroup_out_of_memory and thus current memcg_tasklist has no use. And
IMHO, those races are not so critical for users.

This patch removes it and make codes simpler.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent d31f56db

mm/memcontrol.c

+0 −5

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ static int really_do_swap_account __initdata = 1; /* for remember boot option*/
		#define do_swap_account (0)
		#endif

		static DEFINE_MUTEX(memcg_tasklist); /* can be hold under cgroup_mutex */
		#define SOFTLIMIT_EVENTS_THRESH (1000)

		/*
		@@ -1481,9 +1480,7 @@ static int __mem_cgroup_try_charge(struct mm_struct *mm,

		if (!nr_retries--) {
		if (oom) {
		mutex_lock(&memcg_tasklist);
		mem_cgroup_out_of_memory(mem_over_limit, gfp_mask);
		mutex_unlock(&memcg_tasklist);
		record_last_oom(mem_over_limit);
		}
		goto nomem;
		@@ -3393,12 +3390,10 @@ static void mem_cgroup_move_task(struct cgroup_subsys *ss,
		struct task_struct *p,
		bool threadgroup)
		{
		mutex_lock(&memcg_tasklist);
		/*
		* FIXME: It's better to move charges of this process from old
		* memcg to new memcg. But it's just on TODO-List now.
		*/
		mutex_unlock(&memcg_tasklist);
		}

		struct cgroup_subsys mem_cgroup_subsys = {

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