linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/11] memcg: kmem controller infrastructure

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Message-ID: <4FE9D568.4050802@parallels.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:29:44 +0400
From:	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	<cgroups@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>, <devel@...nvz.org>,
	<kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/11] memcg: kmem controller infrastructure

On 06/26/2012 03:17 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> +	if (ret == -EINTR)  {
>> >+		nofail = true;
>> >+		/*
>> >+		 * __mem_cgroup_try_charge() chose to bypass to root due
>> >+		 * to OOM kill or fatal signal.
> Is "bypass" correct?  Maybe "fall back"?
>

Heh, forgot this one, sorry =(

__mem_cgroup_try_charge does "goto bypass", so I believe the term
"bypass" is better to allow whoever is following this code to follow it.

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