Hi, David Thank you for taking look at this and adding the missing patch description. WRT your patch, please see the comment inline. On 01/31/2014 02:39 AM, David Rientjes wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Andrew Morton wrote: > >>> It always was. >> eh? kmem_cache_create_memcg()'s kstrdup() will allocate the minimum >> needed amount of memory. >> > Ah, good point. We could this incrementally on my patch: > > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c > @@ -637,6 +637,9 @@ int memcg_limited_groups_array_size; > * better kept as an internal representation in cgroup.c. In any case, the > * cgrp_id space is not getting any smaller, and we don't have to necessarily > * increase ours as well if it increases. > + * > + * Updates to MAX_SIZE should update the space for the memcg name in > + * memcg_create_kmem_cache(). > */ > #define MEMCG_CACHES_MIN_SIZE 4 > #define MEMCG_CACHES_MAX_SIZE MEM_CGROUP_ID_MAX > @@ -3400,8 +3403,10 @@ void mem_cgroup_destroy_cache(struct kmem_cache *cachep) > static struct kmem_cache *memcg_create_kmem_cache(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, > struct kmem_cache *s) > { > - char *name = NULL; > struct kmem_cache *new; > + const char *cgrp_name; > + char *name = NULL; > + size_t len; > > BUG_ON(!memcg_can_account_kmem(memcg)); > > @@ -3409,9 +3414,22 @@ static struct kmem_cache *memcg_create_kmem_cache(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, > if (unlikely(!name)) > return NULL; > > + /* > + * Format of a memcg's kmem cache name: > + * <cache-name>(<memcg-id>:<cgroup-name>) > + */ > + len = strlen(s->name); > + /* Space for parentheses, colon, terminator */ > + len += 4; > + /* MEMCG_CACHES_MAX_SIZE is USHRT_MAX */ > + len += 5; > + BUILD_BUG_ON(MEMCG_CACHES_MAX_SIZE > USHRT_MAX); > + This looks cumbersome, IMO. Let's leave it as is for now. AFAIK, cgroup_name() will be reworked soon so that it won't require RCU-context (https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/1/28/530). Therefore, it will be possible to get rid of this pointless tmp_name allocation by making kmem_cache_create_memcg() take not just name, but printf-like format + vargs. Thanks. -- 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>