cgroup: make sure a parent css isn't offlined before its children
There are three subsystem callbacks in css shutdown path -
css_offline(), css_released() and css_free(). Except for
css_released(), cgroup core didn't guarantee the order of invocation.
css_offline() or css_free() could be called on a parent css before its
children. This behavior is unexpected and led to bugs in cpu and
memory controller.
This patch updates offline path so that a parent css is never offlined
before its children. Each css keeps online_cnt which reaches zero iff
itself and all its children are offline and offline_css() is invoked
only after online_cnt reaches zero.
This fixes the memory controller bug and allows the fix for cpu
controller.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Brian Christiansen <brian.o.christiansen@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/5698A023.9070703@de.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/CAKB58ikDkzc8REt31WBkD99+hxNzjK4+FBmhkgS+NVrC9vjMSg@mail.gmail.com
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
index 7f540f7..789471d 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup-defs.h
@@ -127,6 +127,12 @@
*/
u64 serial_nr;
+ /*
+ * Incremented by online self and children. Used to guarantee that
+ * parents are not offlined before their children.
+ */
+ atomic_t online_cnt;
+
/* percpu_ref killing and RCU release */
struct rcu_head rcu_head;
struct work_struct destroy_work;