Re: [PATCH] mm,slab,memcg: call memcg kmem put cache with same condition as get

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On Tue, 2019-01-08 at 21:36 -0800, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 8:01 PM Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > There is an imbalance between when slab_pre_alloc_hook calls
> > memcg_kmem_get_cache and when slab_post_alloc_hook calls
> > memcg_kmem_put_cache.
> > 
> 
> Can you explain how there is an imbalance? If the returned kmem cache
> from memcg_kmem_get_cache() is the memcg kmem cache then the refcnt
> of
> memcg is elevated and the memcg_kmem_put_cache() will correctly
> decrement the refcnt of the memcg.

Indeed, you are right. Never mind this patch.

Back to square one on that bug.

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