Re: [PATCH] mm: memcg: expose mem_cgroup_put API

[Shakeel Butt]

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 3:45 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed,  7 Mar 2018 18:48:50 -0800 Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> This patch exports mem_cgroup_put API to put the refcnt of the memory
>> cgroup.
>
> OK, I remember now.  This is intended to make
> fs-fsnotify-account-fsnotify-metadata-to-kmemcg.patch independent of
> mm-oom-cgroup-aware-oom-killer.patch by extracting mem_cgroup_put()
> from mm-oom-cgroup-aware-oom-killer.patch.

Yes, you are right, it is needed by the above fsnotify patch.

> However it will not permit me to stage
> fs-fsnotify-account-fsnotify-metadata-to-kmemcg.patch ahead of
> mm-oom-cgroup-aware-oom-killer.patch because there are quite a lot of
> syntactic clashes.
>
> I can resolve those if needed, but am keenly hoping that the
> mm-oom-cgroup-aware-oom-killer.patch issues are resolved soon so there
> isn't a need to do this.
>

Sounds good to me.