linux-kernel - Re: memory-cgroup bug

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Message-Id: <20121126013855.AF118F5E@pobox.sk>
Date:	Mon, 26 Nov 2012 01:38:55 +0100
From:	"azurIt" <azurit@...ox.sk>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc:	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	cgroups mailinglist <cgroups@...r.kernel.org>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: memory-cgroup bug

>This is hackish but it should help you in this case. Kamezawa, what do
>you think about that? Should we generalize this and prepare something
>like mem_cgroup_cache_charge_locked which would add __GFP_NORETRY
>automatically and use the function whenever we are in a locked context?
>To be honest I do not like this very much but nothing more sensible
>(without touching non-memcg paths) comes to my mind.


I installed kernel with this patch, will report back if problem occurs again OR in few weeks if everything will be ok. Thank you!

Btw, will this patch be backported to 3.2?

azur
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