Re: [PATCH] slub: Don't panic for memcg kmem cache creation failure

[David Rientjes]

On Wed, 19 Jun 2019, Shakeel Butt wrote:

> Currently for CONFIG_SLUB, if a memcg kmem cache creation is failed and
> the corresponding root kmem cache has SLAB_PANIC flag, the kernel will
> be crashed. This is unnecessary as the kernel can handle the creation
> failures of memcg kmem caches. Additionally CONFIG_SLAB does not
> implement this behavior. So, to keep the behavior consistent between
> SLAB and SLUB, removing the panic for memcg kmem cache creation
> failures. The root kmem cache creation failure for SLAB_PANIC correctly
> panics for both SLAB and SLUB.
> 
> Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>