From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 00:43:48 +0000 (+1100)
Subject: cgroups: pull up res counter charge failure interpretation to caller
X-Git-Tag: next-20111006~1^2~56
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ea5b81203a71a36829073b5a39949f16f472e425;p=karo-tx-linux.git

cgroups: pull up res counter charge failure interpretation to caller

res_counter_charge() always returns -ENOMEM when the limit is reached and
the charge thus can't happen.

However it's up to the caller to interpret this failure and return the
appropriate error value.  The task counter subsystem will need to report
the user that a fork() has been cancelled because of some limit reached,
not because we are too short on memory.

Fix this by returning -1 when res_counter_charge() fails.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <paul@paulmenage.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Aditya Kali <adityakali@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
---

diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups/resource_counter.txt b/Documentation/cgroups/resource_counter.txt
index a2cd05bdbb39..24ec61ccf5d0 100644
--- a/Documentation/cgroups/resource_counter.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cgroups/resource_counter.txt
@@ -76,6 +76,8 @@ to work with it.
 	limit_fail_at parameter is set to the particular res_counter element
 	where the charging failed.
 
+	It returns 0 on success and -1 on failure.
+
  d. int res_counter_charge_locked
 			(struct res_counter *rc, unsigned long val)
 
diff --git a/kernel/res_counter.c b/kernel/res_counter.c
index 6b36823541ba..b814d6ca9ff5 100644
--- a/kernel/res_counter.c
+++ b/kernel/res_counter.c
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ int res_counter_charge_locked(struct res_counter *counter, unsigned long val)
 {
 	if (counter->usage + val > counter->limit) {
 		counter->failcnt++;
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return -1;
 	}
 
 	counter->usage += val;