Re: [PATCH v5 0/7] mm: reparent slab memory on cgroup removal

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed May 22 2019 - 18:01:55 EST


On Wed, 22 May 2019 21:43:54 +0000 Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Is this patchset good to go? Or do you have any remaining concerns?
>
> It has been carefully reviewed by Shakeel; and also Christoph and Waiman
> gave some attention to it.
>
> Since commit 172b06c32b94 ("mm: slowly shrink slabs with a relatively")
> has been reverted, the memcg "leak" problem is open again, and I've heard
> from several independent people and companies that it's a real problem
> for them. So it will be nice to close it asap.
>
> I suspect that the fix is too heavy for stable, unfortunately.
>
> Please, let me know if you have any issues that preventing you
> from pulling it into the tree.

I looked, and put it on ice for a while, hoping to hear from
mhocko/hannes. Did they look at the earlier versions?