Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] mm: ignore memory.min of abandoned memory cgroups

[Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>]

On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 01:38:35PM -0400, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Thu, May 03, 2018 at 12:43:58PM +0100, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > If a cgroup has no associated tasks, invoking the OOM killer
> > won't help release any memory, so respecting the memory.min
> > can lead to an infinite OOM loop or system stall.
> > 
> > Let's ignore memory.min of unpopulated cgroups.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
> > Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> > Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
> > Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
> 
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> 
> I wouldn't mind merging this into the previous patch. It's fairly
> small, and there is no reason to introduce an infinite OOM loop
> scenario into the tree, even if it's just for one commit.

OK, makes sense.
Here is an updated version: I've merged two commits into one,
added a small note about empty cgroups to docs and rebased to mm.

Andrew, can you, please, pull this one?
Thank you!

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