Re: memory-cgroup bug

From: Michal Hocko
Date: Mon Nov 26 2012 - 02:56:59 EST


On Mon 26-11-12 01:38:55, azurIt wrote:
> >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!

Thanks!

> Btw, will this patch be backported to 3.2?

Once we agree on a proper solution it will be backported to the stable
trees.

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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs
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