Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jul 2012 18:22:50 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [patch 08/11] mm: memcg: remove needless !mm fixup to init_mm when charging |
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On Tue 10-07-12 14:54:48, Wanpeng Li wrote: > On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 08:21:04AM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > >On Tue 10-07-12 14:10:21, Wanpeng Li wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 05:20:58PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote: > >> >On Thu 05-07-12 02:45:00, Johannes Weiner wrote: > >> >> It does not matter to __mem_cgroup_try_charge() if the passed mm is > >> >> NULL or init_mm, it will charge the root memcg in either case. > >> > >> You can also change the comment in __mem_cgroup_try_charge : > >> > >> "if so charge the init_mm" => "if so charge the root memcg" > > > >This is already in place: > >" > >If mm is NULL and the caller doesn't pass a valid memcg pointer, that is > >treated as a charge to root_mem_cgroup. > >" > > IIUC, if still keep comment "if so charge the init_mm" is not correct, > since pages in pagecache aren't mapped into any processes' ptes, > so mm is NULL, and these pages which in pagecache are not belong > to init_mm, the comment should be changed. :-)
Fair enough. I guess Johannes will change that in the next post. -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX s.r.o. Lihovarska 1060/12 190 00 Praha 9 Czech Republic
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