Re: [PATCH] memcg: clean up soft_limit_tree properly new

[Michal Hocko]

On Tue 13-12-11 15:08:44, Johannes Weiner wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 03:09:35PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > And a follow up patch for the proper clean up:
> > ---
> > >From 4b9f5a1e88496af9f336d1ef37cfdf3754a3ba48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> > Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 15:04:18 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] memcg: clean up soft_limit_tree properly
> > 
> > If we are not able to allocate tree nodes for all NUMA nodes then we
> > should better clean up those that were allocated otherwise we will leak
> > a memory.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks

> 
> That being said, I think it's unlikely that the machine even boots
> properly if those allocations fail.  But the code looks better this
> way and one doesn't have to double take, wondering if anyone else is
> taking care of the already allocated objects.

Yes, that was the point of the patch - just a cleanup. I do not think we
want to push it into stable...

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Michal Hocko
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