On Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > It always was.
> 
> eh?  kmem_cache_create_memcg()'s kstrdup() will allocate the minimum
> needed amount of memory.
> 

Ah, good point.  We could this incrementally on my patch:

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -637,6 +637,9 @@ int memcg_limited_groups_array_size;
  * better kept as an internal representation in cgroup.c. In any case, the
  * cgrp_id space is not getting any smaller, and we don't have to necessarily
  * increase ours as well if it increases.
+ *
+ * Updates to MAX_SIZE should update the space for the memcg name in
+ * memcg_create_kmem_cache().
  */
 #define MEMCG_CACHES_MIN_SIZE 4
 #define MEMCG_CACHES_MAX_SIZE MEM_CGROUP_ID_MAX
@@ -3400,8 +3403,10 @@ void mem_cgroup_destroy_cache(struct kmem_cache *cachep)
 static struct kmem_cache *memcg_create_kmem_cache(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
                                                  struct kmem_cache *s)
 {
-       char *name = NULL;
        struct kmem_cache *new;
+       const char *cgrp_name;
+       char *name = NULL;
+       size_t len;
 
        BUG_ON(!memcg_can_account_kmem(memcg));
 
@@ -3409,9 +3414,22 @@ static struct kmem_cache *memcg_create_kmem_cache(struct 
mem_cgroup *memcg,
        if (unlikely(!name))
                return NULL;
 
+       /*
+        * Format of a memcg's kmem cache name:
+        * <cache-name>(<memcg-id>:<cgroup-name>)
+        */
+       len = strlen(s->name);
+       /* Space for parentheses, colon, terminator */
+       len += 4;
+       /* MEMCG_CACHES_MAX_SIZE is USHRT_MAX */
+       len += 5;
+       BUILD_BUG_ON(MEMCG_CACHES_MAX_SIZE > USHRT_MAX);
+
        rcu_read_lock();
-       snprintf(name, PATH_MAX, "%s(%d:%s)", s->name, memcg_cache_id(memcg),
-                cgroup_name(memcg->css.cgroup));
+       cgrp_name = cgroup_name(memcg->css.cgroup);
+       len += strlen(cgrp_name);
+       snprintf(name, len, "%s(%d:%s)", s->name, memcg_cache_id(memcg),
+                cgrp_name);
        rcu_read_unlock();
 
        new = kmem_cache_create_memcg(memcg, name, s->object_size, s->align,
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