linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH -mmotm 1/4] memcg: don't trigger oom at page migration

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Message-ID: <56250.10.75.179.61.1228483365.squirrel@webmail-b.css.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Fri, 5 Dec 2008 22:22:45 +0900 (JST)
From:	"KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"Daisuke Nishimura" <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>
Cc:	"LKML" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-mm" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"Balbir Singh" <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki" <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Pavel Emelyanov" <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	"Li Zefan" <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
	"Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com>, nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mmotm 1/4] memcg: don't trigger oom at page 
     migration

Daisuke Nishimura said:
> I think triggering OOM at mem_cgroup_prepare_migration would be just a bit
> overkill.
> Returning -ENOMEM would be enough for mem_cgroup_prepare_migration.
> The caller would handle the case anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@....nes.nec.co.jp>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>


> ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 4dbce1d..50ee1be 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -1330,7 +1330,7 @@ int mem_cgroup_prepare_migration(struct page *page,
> struct mem_cgroup **ptr)
>  	unlock_page_cgroup(pc);
>
>  	if (mem) {
> -		ret = mem_cgroup_try_charge(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, &mem);
> +		ret = __mem_cgroup_try_charge(NULL, GFP_KERNEL, &mem, false);
>  		css_put(&mem->css);
>  	}
>  	*ptr = mem;
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