memcg: avoid deadlock caused by race between oom and cpuset_attach

mpol_rebind_mm(), which can be called from cpuset_attach(), does
down_write(mm->mmap_sem).  This means down_write(mm->mmap_sem) can be
called under cgroup_mutex.

OTOH, page fault path does down_read(mm->mmap_sem) and calls
mem_cgroup_try_charge_xxx(), which may eventually calls
mem_cgroup_out_of_memory().  And mem_cgroup_out_of_memory() calls
cgroup_lock().  This means cgroup_lock() can be called under
down_read(mm->mmap_sem).

If those two paths race, deadlock can happen.

This patch avoid this deadlock by:
  - remove cgroup_lock() from mem_cgroup_out_of_memory().
  - define new mutex (memcg_tasklist) and serialize mem_cgroup_move_task()
    (->attach handler of memory cgroup) and mem_cgroup_out_of_memory.

Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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