On Tue 02-04-13 18:20:56, Glauber Costa wrote: > 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. So we need this, right? --- diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index f608546..2ef875d 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -5306,6 +5306,8 @@ static int memcg_propagate_kmem(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) ret = memcg_update_cache_sizes(memcg); mutex_unlock(&set_limit_mutex); out: + if (ret) + mem_cgroup_put(memcg); return ret; } #endif /* CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM */ @@ -6417,16 +6419,6 @@ mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup *cont) error = memcg_init_kmem(memcg, &mem_cgroup_subsys); mutex_unlock(&memcg_create_mutex); - if (error) { - /* - * We call put now because our (and parent's) refcnts - * are already in place. mem_cgroup_put() will internally - * call __mem_cgroup_free, so return directly - */ - mem_cgroup_put(memcg); - if (parent->use_hierarchy) - mem_cgroup_put(parent); - } return error; } -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- 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>