Re: [PATCH] cgroups: don't depend on CONFIG_MM_OWNER

From: Pekka Enberg
Date: Mon Sep 15 2008 - 13:59:35 EST


Hi Paul,

Paul Menage wrote:
On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Pekka J Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

The revoke patches, for example, select CONFIG_MM_OWNER independently of
cgroups. Therefore, don't depend on CONFIG_MM_OWNER in cgroup specific code.

Yes, the existing code doesn't seem quite right - if !CONFIG_MM_OWNER
then we don't need to even define a trivial version of
cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks()

But your patch is too specific - tying the existance of
cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks() to the memory controller would break other
controllers (e.g. the memrlimit or swap controllers, which also want
to use it)

How about:

- any cgroup that needs mm-owner callbacks selects an option
CGROUP_MM_OWNER_CALLBACK

- CGROUP_MM_OWNER_CALLBACK selects MM_OWNER and triggers the
definition of a non-trivial cgroup_mm_owner_callbacks() function

Yeah, sounds good to me. I just want to be able to select CONFIG_MM_OWNER separately for my revoke patches.

Pekka
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