From: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Cgroups <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: don't do cleanup manually if mem_cgroup_css_online() fails
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 16:03:57 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <515A90ED.7010208@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <515A8A40.6020406@huawei.com>
On 2013/4/2 15:35, Li Zefan wrote:
> If memcg_init_kmem() returns -errno when a memcg is being created,
> mem_cgroup_css_online() will decrement memcg and its parent's refcnt,
> (but strangely there's no mem_cgroup_put() for mem_cgroup_get() called
> in memcg_propagate_kmem()).
The comment in memcg_propagate_kmem() suggests it knows mem_cgroup_css_free()
will be called in failure, while mem_cgroup_css_online() doesn't know.
>
> But then cgroup core will call mem_cgroup_css_free() to do cleanup...
>
> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
> ---
> mm/memcontrol.c | 11 +----------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 10 deletions(-)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-02 8:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-02 7:35 [PATCH] memcg: don't do cleanup manually if mem_cgroup_css_online() fails Li Zefan
2013-04-02 8:03 ` Li Zefan [this message]
2013-04-02 8:07 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-02 8:34 ` Li Zefan
2013-04-02 8:42 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-02 8:43 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-02 12:16 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-02 12:22 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-02 13:32 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-02 13:36 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-03 3:43 ` Li Zefan
2013-04-02 14:16 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-02 14:20 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-02 14:28 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-02 14:33 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-02 15:04 ` [PATCH -v2] " Michal Hocko
2013-04-03 3:49 ` Li Zefan
2013-04-03 7:43 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-03 7:49 ` Li Zefan
2013-04-03 8:18 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-03 8:30 ` Glauber Costa
2013-04-03 8:37 ` Li Zefan
2013-04-03 8:50 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-03 8:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] Revert "memcg: avoid dangling reference count in creation failure." Michal Hocko
2013-04-03 8:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] memcg, kmem: clean up reference count handling on the error path Michal Hocko
2013-04-03 9:48 ` Michal Hocko
2013-04-03 8:08 ` [PATCH -v2] memcg: don't do cleanup manually if mem_cgroup_css_online() fails Glauber Costa
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