On Thu 10-01-19 12:42:02, Kirill Tkhai wrote: [...] > In general, I think a some time useful design is not a Bible, that nobody > is allowed to change. We should not limit us in something, in case of this > has a sense and may be useful. This is just a note in general. But any semantic exported to the userspace and real application depending on it is carved in stone for ever. And this is the case here I am afraid. So if we really need some sort of soft unmapping or reparenting a memory from a memcg then we really need to find a different way. I do not see a straightforward way right now TBH. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs