cgroup: kill CSS_REMOVED
CSS_REMOVED is one of the several contortions which were necessary to
support css reference draining on cgroup removal. All css->refcnts
which need draining should be deactivated and verified to equal zero
atomically w.r.t. css_tryget(). If any one isn't zero, all refcnts
needed to be re-activated and css_tryget() shouldn't fail in the
process.
This was achieved by letting css_tryget() busy-loop until either the
refcnt is reactivated (failed removal attempt) or CSS_REMOVED is set
(committing to removal).
Now that css refcnt draining is no longer used, there's no need for
atomic rollback mechanism. css_tryget() simply can look at the
reference count and fail if it's deactivated - it's never getting
re-activated.
This patch removes CSS_REMOVED and updates __css_tryget() to fail if
the refcnt is deactivated. As deactivation and removal are a single
step now, they no longer need to be protected against css_tryget()
happening from irq context. Remove local_irq_disable/enable() from
cgroup_rmdir().
Note that this removes css_is_removed() whose only user is VM_BUG_ON()
in memcontrol.c. We can replace it with a check on the refcnt but
given that the only use case is a debug assert, I think it's better to
simply unexport it.
v2: Comment updated and explanation on local_irq_disable/enable()
added per Michal Hocko.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 5a1d584..37c35664 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2343,7 +2343,6 @@
again:
if (*ptr) { /* css should be a valid one */
memcg = *ptr;
- VM_BUG_ON(css_is_removed(&memcg->css));
if (mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
goto done;
if (nr_pages == 1 && consume_stock(memcg))
@@ -2483,9 +2482,9 @@
/*
* A helper function to get mem_cgroup from ID. must be called under
- * rcu_read_lock(). The caller must check css_is_removed() or some if
- * it's concern. (dropping refcnt from swap can be called against removed
- * memcg.)
+ * rcu_read_lock(). The caller is responsible for calling css_tryget if
+ * the mem_cgroup is used for charging. (dropping refcnt from swap can be
+ * called against removed memcg.)
*/
static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_lookup(unsigned short id)
{