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-rw-r--r--mm/slab_common.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/slab_common.c b/mm/slab_common.c
index f34707eeacc7..8e40321da091 100644
--- a/mm/slab_common.c
+++ b/mm/slab_common.c
@@ -233,7 +233,14 @@ out_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
put_online_cpus();
- if (err) {
+ /*
+ * There is no point in flooding logs with warnings or especially
+ * crashing the system if we fail to create a cache for a memcg. In
+ * this case we will be accounting the memcg allocation to the root
+ * cgroup until we succeed to create its own cache, but it isn't that
+ * critical.
+ */
+ if (err && !memcg) {
if (flags & SLAB_PANIC)
panic("kmem_cache_create: Failed to create slab '%s'. Error %d\n",
name, err);