From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wr0-f199.google.com (mail-wr0-f199.google.com [209.85.128.199]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF6906B0005 for ; Thu, 8 Mar 2018 18:41:02 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-wr0-f199.google.com with SMTP id j28so4041018wrd.17 for ; Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:41:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org (mail.linuxfoundation.org. [140.211.169.12]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m200si13578wma.106.2018.03.08.15.41.01 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 08 Mar 2018 15:41:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2018 15:40:58 -0800 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcg: expose mem_cgroup_put API Message-Id: <20180308154058.9158c9c1ff1e4e67990bcce7@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180308024850.39737-1-shakeelb@google.com> References: <20180308024850.39737-1-shakeelb@google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Shakeel Butt Cc: Roman Gushchin , Vladimir Davydov , Michal Hocko , Greg Thelen , Johannes Weiner , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 7 Mar 2018 18:48:50 -0800 Shakeel Butt wrote: > This patch exports mem_cgroup_put API to put the refcnt of the memory > cgroup. Not the best of changelogs :( Why is this patch being added? It's a prerequisite for isn't it?