The patch titled Subject: memcg: notify about global mem_cgroup_id space depletion has been added to the -mm mm-unstable branch. Its filename is memcg-notify-about-global-mem_cgroup_id-space-depletion.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/memcg-notify-about-global-mem_cgroup_id-space-depletion.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: memcg: notify about global mem_cgroup_id space depletion Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 05:11:26 +0300 Currently, the host owner is not informed about the exhaustion of the global mem_cgroup_id space. When this happens, systemd cannot start a new service and receives a unique -ENOSPC error code. However, this can happen inside this container, persist in the log file of the local container, and may not be noticed by the host owner if he did not try to start any new services. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/97bed1fd-f230-c2ea-1cb6-8230825a9a64@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@xxxxxxx> Cc: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-notify-about-global-mem_cgroup_id-space-depletion +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -5286,6 +5286,8 @@ static struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_all 1, MEM_CGROUP_ID_MAX + 1, GFP_KERNEL); if (memcg->id.id < 0) { error = memcg->id.id; + if (error == -ENOSPC) + pr_notice_ratelimited("mem_cgroup_id space is exhausted\n"); goto fail; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from vvs@xxxxxxxxxx are memcg-notify-about-global-mem_cgroup_id-space-depletion.patch