linux-kernel - Re: 3.13-rc breaks MEMCG

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Date:	Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:48:07 +0100
From:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
To:	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>
Cc:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 3.13-rc breaks MEMCG_SWAP

On Tue 17-12-13 11:13:39, Li Zefan wrote:
> On 2013/12/17 9:41, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Dec 2013, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 06:19:37PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> >>> I have to think about it some more (the brain is not working anymore
> >>> today). But what we really need is that nobody gets the same id while
> >>> the css is alive.
> 
> That's what I meant to do in my last reply.
> 
> But I'm confused by
> 
> "How would this work? .. the swap will be there
> after the last reference to css as well."

Sorry about the confusion. Johannes correctly pointed out that a css
reference is taken when we record memcg id and released after the record
is removed.

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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