linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] memcg: don't initialize kmem-cache destroying work for root caches

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Date:	Tue, 14 May 2013 18:49:07 +0400
From:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
CC:	Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-mm@...ck.org>, <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Balbir Singh <bsingharora@...il.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: don't initialize kmem-cache destroying work for
 root caches

On 05/14/2013 06:44 PM, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Tue 14-05-13 16:40:31, Michal Hocko wrote:
>> On Tue 14-05-13 16:38:38, Andrey Vagin wrote:
>>> struct memcg_cache_params has a union. Different parts of this union are
>>> used for root and non-root caches. A part with destroying work is used only
>>> for non-root caches.
>>
>> but memcg_update_cache_size is called only for !root caches AFAICS
>> (check memcg_update_all_caches)
> 
> Ohh, I am blind. memcg_update_all_caches skips all !root caches.
> Then the patch looks correct. If Glauber has nothing against then thise
> should be marked for stable (3.9)
> 
This was recently introduced by the commit that moved the initialization
earlier (15cf17d26e08ee9). It basically moved too much, and I didn't
catch it. If that patch is in 3.9, then yes, this needs to go to stable.
Otherwise it is not affected.

However, I do remember Andrey telling me that he hit this bug in both
3.9 and 3.10-rc1, so yes, stable it is.

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