- During v6.19, cgroup task unlink was moved from do_exit() to after the
final task switch to satisfy a controller invariant. That left the kernel
seeing tasks past exit_signals() longer than userspace expected, and
several v7.0 follow-ups tried to bridge the gap by making rmdir wait for
the kernel side. None held up. The latest is an A-A deadlock when rmdir
is invoked by the reaper of zombies whose pidns teardown the rmdir itself
is waiting on, which points at the synchronizing approach being
fundamentally wrong:
- Take a different approach: drop the wait, leave rmdir's user-visible
side returning as soon as cgroup.procs is empty, and defer the css
percpu_ref kill that drives ->css_offline() until the cgroup is fully
depopulated.
- Tagged for stable. Somewhat invasive but contained. The hope is that
fixing forward sticks. If not, the fallback is to revert the entire
chain and rework on the development branch.
- Doesn't plug a pre-existing analogous race in
cgroup_apply_control_disable() (controller disable via subtree_control).
Not a regression. The development branch will do the more invasive
restructuring needed for that.
- Documentation update for cgroup-v1 charge-commit section that still
referenced functions removed when the memcg hugetlb try-commit-cancel
protocol was retired.
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Merge tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
- During v6.19, cgroup task unlink was moved from do_exit() to after the
final task switch to satisfy a controller invariant. That left the kernel
seeing tasks past exit_signals() longer than userspace expected, and
several v7.0 follow-ups tried to bridge the gap by making rmdir wait for
the kernel side. None held up.
The latest is an A-A deadlock when rmdir is invoked by the reaper of
zombies whose pidns teardown the rmdir itself is waiting on, which
points at the synchronizing approach being fundamentally wrong.
Take a different approach: drop the wait, leave rmdir's user-visible
side returning as soon as cgroup.procs is empty, and defer the css
percpu_ref kill that drives ->css_offline() until the cgroup is fully
depopulated.
Tagged for stable. Somewhat invasive but contained. The hope is that
fixing forward sticks. If not, the fallback is to revert the entire
chain and rework on the development branch.
Note that this doesn't plug a pre-existing analogous race in
cgroup_apply_control_disable() (controller disable via
subtree_control). Not a regression. The development branch will do
the more invasive restructuring needed for that.
- Documentation update for cgroup-v1 charge-commit section that still
referenced functions removed when the memcg hugetlb try-commit-cancel
protocol was retired.
* tag 'cgroup-for-7.1-rc2-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
docs: cgroup-v1: Update charge-commit section
cgroup: Defer css percpu_ref kill on rmdir until cgroup is depopulated
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