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Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2015 18:33:34 +0200
From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] memcg: get rid of mem_cgroup_from_task
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On Thu 09-07-15 17:32:47, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2015 at 04:13:21PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > On Wed 08-07-15 20:43:31, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 02:27:52PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > @@ -1091,12 +1079,14 @@ bool task_in_mem_cgroup(struct task_struct *task, struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> > > >  		task_unlock(p);
> > > >  	} else {
> > > >  		/*
> > > > -		 * All threads may have already detached their mm's, but the oom
> > > > -		 * killer still needs to detect if they have already been oom
> > > > -		 * killed to prevent needlessly killing additional tasks.
> > > > +		 * All threads have already detached their mm's but we should
> > > > +		 * still be able to at least guess the original memcg from the
> > > > +		 * task_css. These two will match most of the time but there are
> > > > +		 * corner cases where task->mm and task_css refer to a different
> > > > +		 * cgroups.
> > > >  		 */
> > > >  		rcu_read_lock();
> > > > -		task_memcg = mem_cgroup_from_task(task);
> > > > +		task_memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(task_css(task, memory_cgrp_id));
> > > >  		css_get(&task_memcg->css);
> > > 
> > > I wonder why it's safe to call css_get here.
> > 
> > What do you mean by safe? Memcg cannot go away because we are under rcu
> > lock.
> 
> No, it can't, but css->refcnt can reach zero while we are here, can't
> it? If it happens, css->refcnt.release will be called twice, which will
> have very bad consequences. I think it's OK to call css_tryget{_online}
> from an RCU read-side section, but not css_get. Am I missing something?

OK, now I see what you mean. This is a good question indeed. This code has been
like that for quite a while and I took it for granted. I have to think
about it some more. Anyway the patch doesn't change the behavior here.
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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