Re: WARNING bisected (was Re: [PATCH v7 08/10] mm: rework non-root kmem_cache lifecycle management)

[Roman Gushchin]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 05:28:46PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> On 21.11.19 19:45, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > I see. Do you know, which kmem_cache it is? If not, can you, please,
> > figure it out?
> 
> The release function for that ref is kmemcg_cache_shutdown. 
> 

Hi Christian!

Can you, please, test if the following patch resolves the problem?

diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index 8afa188f6e20..628e5f0ee19e 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -888,6 +888,8 @@ static int shutdown_memcg_caches(struct kmem_cache *s)
 
 static void flush_memcg_workqueue(struct kmem_cache *s)
 {
+	bool wait_for_children;
+
 	spin_lock_irq(&memcg_kmem_wq_lock);
 	s->memcg_params.dying = true;
 	spin_unlock_irq(&memcg_kmem_wq_lock);
@@ -904,6 +906,13 @@ static void flush_memcg_workqueue(struct kmem_cache *s)
 	 * previous workitems on workqueue are processed.
 	 */
 	flush_workqueue(memcg_kmem_cache_wq);
+
+	mutex_lock(&slab_mutex);
+	wait_for_children = !list_empty(&s->memcg_params.children);
+	mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
+
+	if (wait_for_children)
+		rcu_barrier();
 }
 #else
 static inline int shutdown_memcg_caches(struct kmem_cache *s)

--

Thanks!