Re: [PATCH v6 4/7] cgroup: cgroup v2 freezer

From: Roman Gushchin
Date: Thu Feb 14 2019 - 11:41:31 EST


On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 05:26:13PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 02/11, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 05:52:01PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > >
> > > Worse, this looks just wrong. In the latter case, cgroup becomes CGRP_FROZEN
> > > right after a 2nd task migrates to this cgroup, before this new task calls
> > > do_freezer_trap() or cgroup_enter_stopped().
> >
> > You're right. So, it looks like the problem is in the equation
> > nr_tasks_frozen + nr_tasks_stopped == nr_tasks_to_freeze ,
> > because a task can be frozen and stopped simultaneously.
> >
> > So, basically it has to be
> > nr_tasks_frozen + nr_tasks_stopped >= nr_tasks_to_freeze instead.
>
> It seems you didn't read the paragraph above, or I missed something...
>
> How can "frozen + stopped >= to_freeze" fix the problem with the falsely true
> CGRP_FROZEN ?

It helps with the problem when cgroup is mistakenly reported as non-frozen,
and adding a task makes it frozen due to increased nr_tasks_to_freeze.

But you're right, it's not correct. I have to think more how to make
the accounting work correctly with stopped tasks.

Roman