linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: reset memory.low on css offline

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Date:	Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:55:09 -0500
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Cc:	Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@...tuozzo.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, cgroups@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: reset memory.low on css offline

Hello,

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 03:02:55PM -0500, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> > To fix this, let's reset memory.low on css offline.
> 
> We already have mem_cgroup_css_reset() for soft-offlining a css - when
> the css is asked to be disabled but another subsystem still uses it.
> Can we just call that function during offline as well? The css can be
> around for quite a bit after the user deleted it. Eliminating *any*
> user-supplied configurations and zapping it back to defaults makes
> sense in general, so that we never have to worry about any remnants.

Hmmm... I wonder whether the behavior can be a bit surprising and it
could be better to simply let memcg offline callback to call the reset
function explicitly.  No big deal either way tho.  Please feel free to
send a patch.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun