Hello, Michal. On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 03:30:46PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > Now that mem_cgroup_pre_destroy callback doesn't fail finally we can > safely move on and forbit all the callbacks to fail. The last missing > piece is moving cgroup_call_pre_destroy after cgroup_clear_css_refs so > that css_tryget fails so no new charges for the memcg can happen. > The callbacks are also called from within cgroup_lock to guarantee that > no new tasks show up. We could theoretically call them outside of the > lock but then we have to move after CGRP_REMOVED flag is set. > > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> So, the plan is to do something like the following once memcg is ready. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.containers/22559/focus=75251 Note that the patch is broken in a couple places but it does show the general direction. I'd prefer if patch #3 simply makes pre_destroy() return 0 and drop __DEPRECATED_clear_css_refs from mem_cgroup_subsys. Then, I can pull the branch in and drop all the unnecessary cruft. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>