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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html