RE: kernel warning percpu ref in obj_cgroup_release

From: Christian Borntraeger
Date: Wed Mar 31 2021 - 02:23:45 EST




On 30.03.21 18:25, Muchun Song wrote:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 11:10 PM Christian Borntraeger
<borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On 30.03.21 15:49, Muchun Song wrote:
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:27 PM Christian Borntraeger
<borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So bisect shows this for belows warning:

Thanks for your effort on this. Can you share your config?

attached (but its s390x) for next-20210330

Thanks. Can you apply the following patch and help me test?
Very Thanks.

diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 7fdc92e1983e..579408e4d46f 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -793,6 +793,12 @@ static inline void obj_cgroup_get(struct obj_cgroup *objcg)
percpu_ref_get(&objcg->refcnt);
}

+static inline void obj_cgroup_get_many(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
+ unsigned long nr)
+{
+ percpu_ref_get_many(&objcg->refcnt, nr);
+}
+
static inline void obj_cgroup_put(struct obj_cgroup *objcg)
{
percpu_ref_put(&objcg->refcnt);
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index c0b83a396299..1634dba1044c 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3133,7 +3133,10 @@ void split_page_memcg(struct page *head, unsigned int nr)

for (i = 1; i < nr; i++)
head[i].memcg_data = head->memcg_data;
- css_get_many(&memcg->css, nr - 1);
+ if (PageMemcgKmem(head))
+ obj_cgroup_get_many(__page_objcg(head), nr - 1);
+ else
+ css_get_many(&memcg->css, nr - 1);
}

#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP


This one seems to do the trick, I can no longer see the warning.