memcg: reparent charges of children before processing parent
commit 4fb1a86f upstream. Sometimes the cleanup after memcg hierarchy testing gets stuck in mem_cgroup_reparent_charges(), unable to bring non-kmem usage down to 0. There may turn out to be several causes, but a major cause is this: the workitem to offline parent can get run before workitem to offline child; parent's mem_cgroup_reparent_charges() circles around waiting for the child's pages to be reparented to its lrus, but it's holding cgroup_mutex which prevents the child from reaching its mem_cgroup_reparent_charges(). Further testing showed that an ordered workqueue for cgroup_destroy_wq is not always good enough: percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm's call_rcu_sched stage on the way can mess up the order before reaching the workqueue. Instead, when offlining a memcg, call mem_cgroup_reparent_charges() on all its children (and grandchildren, in the correct order) to have their charges reparented first. [The version for 3.10.34 (or perhaps now 3.10.35) is this below. Yes, more differences, and the old mem_cgroup_reparent_charges line is intentionally left in for 3.10 whereas it was removed for 3.12+: that's because the css/cgroup iterator changed in between, it used not to supply the root of the subtree, but nowadays it does - Hugh] Fixes: e5fca243 ("cgroup: use a dedicated workqueue for cgroup destruction") Signed-off-by: Filipe Brandenburger <filbranden@google.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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