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Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.3-fixes] cgroup, writeback: don't enable cgroup writeback on traditional hierarchies

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On 09/23/2015 03:07 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> inode_cgwb_enabled() gates cgroup writeback support.  If it returns
> true, each inode is attached to the corresponding memory domain which
> gets mapped to io domain.  It currently only tests whether the
> filesystem and bdi support cgroup writeback; however, cgroup writeback
> support doesn't work on traditional hierarchies and thus it should
> also test whether memcg and iocg are on the default hierarchy.
>
> This caused traditional hierarchy setups to hit the cgroup writeback
> path inadvertently and ended up creating separate writeback domains
> for each memcg and mapping them all to the root iocg uncovering a
> couple issues in the cgroup writeback path.
>
> cgroup writeback was never meant to be enabled on traditional
> hierarchies.  Make inode_cgwb_enabled() test whether both memcg and
> iocg are on the default hierarchy.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> Reported-by: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
> Reported-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1443012552.19983.209.camel@gmail.com
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/f30d4a6aa8a546ff88f73021d026a453@SIXPR30MB031.064d.mgd.msft.net
> ---
> Hello,
>
> So, this should make the regression go away.  It doesn't fix the
> underlying bugs but they shouldn't get triggered by people not
> experimenting with cgroup.
>
> I'm gonna keep digging the underlying issues but this should make the
> regressions go away.  If it's okay, I think it'd be better to route
> this through cgroup/for-4.3-fixes as it's gonna cause a conflict with
> for-4.4 branch and handling the merge there is easier.
>
> Thanks.
>
>   include/linux/backing-dev.h |   11 +++++++++--
>   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

I'll ack this since it works around both the corruption issue and the 
performance regression, so we can avoid having to revert parts of this. 
And I know you'll keep hunting and get the real issue fixed in the mean 
time.

Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>

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Jens Axboe

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    Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: implement cgroup writeback support Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2015-09-23 19:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: implement cgroup writeback support Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-23 20:00 +0200
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    Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: implement cgroup writeback support Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> - 2015-09-23 20:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: implement cgroup writeback support Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2015-09-23 20:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: implement cgroup writeback support Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-23 21:50 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: implement cgroup writeback support Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> - 2015-09-23 22:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: implement cgroup writeback support Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-24 10:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: implement cgroup writeback support Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-23 21:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: implement cgroup writeback support Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-23 20:10 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/2] ext4: implement cgroup writeback support Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-23 21:00 +0200
      [PATCH cgroup/for-4.3-fixes] cgroup, writeback: don't enable cgroup  writeback on traditional hierarchies Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-23 23:10 +0200
        Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.3-fixes] cgroup, writeback: don't enable  cgroup writeback on traditional hierarchies Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-24 10:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.3-fixes] cgroup, writeback: don't enable  cgroup writeback on traditional hierarchies Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-24 22:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.3-fixes] cgroup, writeback: don't enable  cgroup writeback on traditional hierarchies Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-28 23:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.3-fixes] cgroup, writeback: don't enable  cgroup writeback on traditional hierarchies Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-24 22:50 +0200
            Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.3-fixes] cgroup, writeback: don't enable  cgroup writeback on traditional hierarchies Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-25 08:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.3-fixes] cgroup, writeback: don't enable  cgroup writeback on traditional hierarchies Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-25 13:00 +0200
                Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.3-fixes] cgroup, writeback: don't enable  cgroup writeback on traditional hierarchies Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-25 17:50 +0200
                Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.3-fixes] cgroup, writeback: don't enable  cgroup writeback on traditional hierarchies Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-27 00:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.3-fixes] cgroup, writeback: don't enable  cgroup writeback on traditional hierarchies Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 13:40 +0200
                Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.3-fixes] cgroup, writeback: don't enable  cgroup writeback on traditional hierarchies Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-29 16:30 +0200
        Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.3-fixes] cgroup, writeback: don't enable  cgroup writeback on traditional hierarchies Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> - 2015-09-24 18:20 +0200
        Re: [PATCH cgroup/for-4.3-fixes] cgroup, writeback: don't enable  cgroup writeback on traditional hierarchies Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> - 2015-09-24 22:50 +0200

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