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memcg: fix refcnt going negative

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__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>
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 2009-10-01 15:44:08 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 447e4460a4
commit 26251eaf98
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@ -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 */