Re: [PATCH][mmotm]memcg: handle null dereference of mm->owner

[Balbir Singh]

Paul Menage wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:40 AM, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
> <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> BTW, I have a question to Balbir and Paul. (I'm sorry I missed the discussion.)
>> Recently I wonder why we need MM_OWNER.
>>
>> - What's bad with thread's cgroup ?
> 
> Because lots of mm operations take place in a context where we don't
> have a thread pointer, and hence no cgroup.
> 

Right, Thanks! Allocating memory is not that big a problem (we usually know the
context), while freeing memory, we can't assume that current is freeing it

-- 
	Balbir
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