Re: [PATCH 13/12] memcg: don't need memcg->memcg_name

[Li Zefan <lizefan-hv44wF8Li93QT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

>> @@ -5188,12 +5154,28 @@ static int mem_cgroup_dangling_read(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft,
>>   					struct seq_file *m)
>>   {
>>   	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
>> +	char *memcg_name;
>> +	int ret;
>> +
>> +	/*
>> +	 * cgroup.c will do page-sized allocations most of the time,
>> +	 * so we'll just follow the pattern. Also, __get_free_pages
>> +	 * is a better interface than kmalloc for us here, because
>> +	 * we'd like this memory to be always billed to the root cgroup,
>> +	 * not to the process removing the memcg. While kmalloc would
>> +	 * require us to wrap it into memcg_stop/resume_kmem_account,
>> +	 * with __get_free_pages we just don't pass the memcg flag.
>> +	 */
>> +	memcg_name = (char *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
>> +	if (!memcg_name)
>> +		return -ENOMEM;
>>   
>>   	mutex_lock(&dangling_memcgs_mutex);
>>   
>>   	list_for_each_entry(memcg, &dangling_memcgs, dead) {
>> -		if (memcg->memcg_name)
>> -			seq_printf(m, "%s:\n", memcg->memcg_name);
>> +		ret = cgroup_path(memcg->css.cgroup, memcg_name, PAGE_SIZE);
>> +		if (!ret)
>> +			seq_printf(m, "%s:\n", memcg_name);
>>   		else
>>   			seq_printf(m, "%p (name lost):\n", memcg);
>>   
> 
> I'm sorry for dawm question ...when this error happens ?
> We may get ENAMETOOLONG even with PAGE_SIZE(>=4096bytes) buffer ?
> 

It does no harm to check the return value, and we don't have to
worry about if cgroup_path() will be changed to return some other
errno like ENOMEM in the future.