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author | KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> | 2008-11-19 18:36:34 -0500 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-11-19 21:49:58 -0500 |
commit | 3fa59dfbc3b223f02c26593be69ce6fc9a940405 (patch) | |
tree | d3d9df521342b49abc636e1ee465b704858b3e0d /kernel/mutex-debug.c | |
parent | 0ae15132a4f5c758a6ffcde74495641dc3f62ba1 (diff) |
cgroup: fix potential deadlock in pre_destroy
As Balbir pointed out, memcg's pre_destroy handler has potential deadlock.
It has following lock sequence.
cgroup_mutex (cgroup_rmdir)
-> pre_destroy -> mem_cgroup_pre_destroy-> force_empty
-> cpu_hotplug.lock. (lru_add_drain_all->
schedule_work->
get_online_cpus)
But, cpuset has following.
cpu_hotplug.lock (call notifier)
-> cgroup_mutex. (within notifier)
Then, this lock sequence should be fixed.
Considering how pre_destroy works, it's not necessary to holding
cgroup_mutex() while calling it.
As a side effect, we don't have to wait at this mutex while memcg's
force_empty works.(it can be long when there are tons of pages.)
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.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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