linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] memcg: fix memcg_cache_name() to use cgroup

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Message-ID: <20130327153226.GF29052@cmpxchg.org>
Date:	Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:32:26 -0400
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizefan@...wei.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: fix memcg_cache_name() to use cgroup_name()

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 04:11:04PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Wed 27-03-13 10:58:25, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 09:36:39AM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> [...]
> > > +	/*
> > > +	 * kmem_cache_create_memcg duplicates the given name and
> > > +	 * cgroup_name for this name requires RCU context.
> > > +	 * This static temporary buffer is used to prevent from
> > > +	 * pointless shortliving allocation.
> > > +	 */
> > > +	if (!tmp_name) {
> > > +		tmp_name = kmalloc(PAGE_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
> > > +		WARN_ON_ONCE(!tmp_name);
> > 
> > Just use the page allocator directly and get a free allocation failure
> > warning. 
> 
> WARN_ON_ONCE is probably pointless.
> 
> > Then again, order-0 pages are considered cheap enough that they never
> > even fail in our current implementation.
> > 
> > Which brings me to my other point: why not just a simple single-page
> > allocation?
> 
> No objection from me. I was previously thinking about the "proper"
> size for something that is a file name. So I originally wanted to use
> PATH_MAX instead but ended up with PAGE_SIZE for reasons I do not
> remember now.  Maybe we can use NAME_MAX instead. I just do not like to
> use page allocator directly when allocatating something like strings
> etc...

Don't grep for GFP_TEMPORARY then, we do it in a couple places :-)
NAME_MAX is just for single dentry names, not path names, no?  Might
be a little short.
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