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From: Glauber Costa <glommer@parallels.com>
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.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 18:20:56 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <515AE948.1000704@parallels.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130402141646.GQ24345@dhcp22.suse.cz>

On 04/02/2013 06:16 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
>  mem_cgroup_css_online
>       memcg_init_kmem
>         mem_cgroup_get		# refcnt = 2
>           memcg_update_all_caches
>             memcg_update_cache_size	# fails with ENOMEM

Here is the thing: this one in kmem only happens for kmem enabled
memcgs. For those, we tend to do a get once, and put only when the last
kmem reference is gone.

For non-kmem memcgs, refcnt will be 1 here, and will be balanced out by
the mem_cgroup_put() in css_free.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-04-02 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-04-02  7:35 Li Zefan
2013-04-02  8:03 ` Li Zefan
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 [this message]
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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