Re: [PATCH] memcg: fix mutex not unlocked on memcg_create_kmem_cachefail path

From: David Rientjes
Date: Thu Jan 30 2014 - 17:04:21 EST


On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > Yeah, it shouldn't be temporary it should be the one and only allocation.
> > We should construct the name in memcg_create_kmem_cache() and be done with
> > it.
>
> Could. That would require converting memcg_create_kmem_cache() to take
> a va_list and call kasprintf() on it.
>

Why? We already construct the name in memcg_create_kmem_cache()
appropriately, we just want to avoid the kstrdup() in
kmem_cache_create_memcg() since it's pointless like my patch does.
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