2022-04-25 22:35:18

by David Rientjes

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/4] selftests: cgroup: fix alloc_anon_noexit() instantly freeing memory

On Mon, 25 Apr 2022, Yosry Ahmed wrote:

> Currently, alloc_anon_noexit() calls alloc_anon() which instantly frees
> the allocated memory. alloc_anon_noexit() is usually used with
> cg_run_nowait() to run a process in the background that allocates
> memory. It makes sense for the background process to keep the memory
> allocated and not instantly free it (otherwise there is no point of
> running it in the background).
>
> Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <[email protected]>