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

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Date:	Tue, 14 May 2013 16:52:52 +0200
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
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 Tue 14-05-13 18:49:07, Glauber Costa wrote:
> 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.

git describe tells it was merged in v3.9-rc2~7

> 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.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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