mm: memcontrol: use special workqueue for creating per-memcg caches
Creating a lot of cgroups at the same time might stall all worker threads with kmem cache creation works, because kmem cache creation is done with the slab_mutex held. The problem was amplified by commits 801faf0d ("mm/slab: lockless decision to grow cache") in case of SLAB and 81ae6d03 ("mm/slub.c: replace kick_all_cpus_sync() with synchronize_sched() in kmem_cache_shrink()") in case of SLUB, which increased the maximal time the slab_mutex can be held. To prevent that from happening, let's use a special ordered single threaded workqueue for kmem cache creation. This shouldn't introduce any functional changes regarding how kmem caches are created, as the work function holds the global slab_mutex during its whole runtime anyway, making it impossible to run more than one work at a time. By using a single threaded workqueue, we just avoid creating a thread per each work. Ordering is required to avoid a situation when a cgroup's work is put off indefinitely because there are other cgroups to serve, in other words to guarantee fairness. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172981 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161004131417.GC1862@esperanza Signed-off-by:Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Reported-by:
Doug Smythies <dsmythies@telus.net> Acked-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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