limit-util: quieten a very common debug message that is misleading

diff --git a/src/basic/limits-util.c b/src/basic/limits-util.c
index 43f6b6f68a96d640120ec65f235b94725f4230a1..9da767a5706f11135cb042d8be6fe3f70cf07278 100644 (file)
--- a/src/basic/limits-util.c
+++ b/src/basic/limits-util.c
@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ uint64_t physical_memory(void) {
         }
         if (r > 0) {
                 r = cg_get_attribute("memory", root, "memory.max", &value);
+                if (r == -ENOENT) /* Field does not exist on the system's top-level cgroup, hence don't
+                                   * complain. (Note that it might exist on our own root though, if we live
+                                   * in a cgroup namespace, hence check anyway instead of not even
+                                   * trying.) */
+                        return mem;
                 if (r < 0) {
                         log_debug_errno(r, "Failed to read memory.max cgroup attribute, ignoring cgroup memory limit: %m");
                         return mem;