On 2013/4/8 22:25, Michal Hocko wrote: > On Mon 08-04-13 14:36:52, Li Zefan wrote: > [...] >> @@ -5188,12 +5154,28 @@ static int mem_cgroup_dangling_read(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft, >> struct seq_file *m) >> { >> struct mem_cgroup *memcg; >> + char *memcg_name; >> + int ret; > > The interface is only for debugging, all right, but that doesn't mean we > should allocate a buffer for each read. Why cannot we simply use > cgroup_path for seq_printf directly? Can we still race with the group > rename? because cgroup_path() requires the caller pass a buffer to it. > >> + >> + /* >> + * cgroup.c will do page-sized allocations most of the time, >> + * so we'll just follow the pattern. Also, __get_free_pages >> + * is a better interface than kmalloc for us here, because >> + * we'd like this memory to be always billed to the root cgroup, >> + * not to the process removing the memcg. While kmalloc would >> + * require us to wrap it into memcg_stop/resume_kmem_account, >> + * with __get_free_pages we just don't pass the memcg flag. >> + */ >> + memcg_name = (char *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 0); >> + if (!memcg_name) >> + return -ENOMEM; >> >> mutex_lock(&dangling_memcgs_mutex); >> >> list_for_each_entry(memcg, &dangling_memcgs, dead) { >> - if (memcg->memcg_name) >> - seq_printf(m, "%s:\n", memcg->memcg_name); >> + ret = cgroup_path(memcg->css.cgroup, memcg_name, PAGE_SIZE); >> + if (!ret) >> + seq_printf(m, "%s:\n", memcg_name); >> else >> seq_printf(m, "%p (name lost):\n", memcg); >> >> @@ -5203,6 +5185,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_dangling_read(struct cgroup *cont, struct cftype *cft, >> } >> >> mutex_unlock(&dangling_memcgs_mutex); >> + free_pages((unsigned long)memcg_name, 0); >> return 0; >> } >> #endif -- 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