linux-kernel - [patch 6/8] memcg: get_mem_cgroup_from

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Date:	Tue, 11 Mar 2014 21:28:32 -0400
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch 6/8] memcg: get_mem_cgroup_from_mm()

Instead of returning NULL from try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm() when the
mm owner is exiting, just return root_mem_cgroup.  This makes sense
for all callsites and gets rid of some of them having to fallback
manually.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 18 ++++--------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 1780e66ec61e..cc7f3ca3ef34 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -1071,7 +1071,7 @@ struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_from_task(struct task_struct *p)
 	return mem_cgroup_from_css(task_css(p, mem_cgroup_subsys_id));
 }
 
-struct mem_cgroup *try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
+struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL;
 
@@ -1079,7 +1079,7 @@ struct mem_cgroup *try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(struct mm_struct *mm)
 	do {
 		memcg = mem_cgroup_from_task(rcu_dereference(mm->owner));
 		if (unlikely(!memcg))
-			break;
+			memcg = root_mem_cgroup;
 	} while (!css_tryget(&memcg->css));
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	return memcg;
@@ -1475,7 +1475,7 @@ bool task_in_mem_cgroup(struct task_struct *task,
 
 	p = find_lock_task_mm(task);
 	if (p) {
-		curr = try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(p->mm);
+		curr = get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(p->mm);
 		task_unlock(p);
 	} else {
 		/*
@@ -1489,8 +1489,6 @@ bool task_in_mem_cgroup(struct task_struct *task,
 			css_get(&curr->css);
 		rcu_read_unlock();
 	}
-	if (!curr)
-		return false;
 	/*
 	 * We should check use_hierarchy of "memcg" not "curr". Because checking
 	 * use_hierarchy of "curr" here make this function true if hierarchy is
@@ -3649,15 +3647,7 @@ __memcg_kmem_newpage_charge(gfp_t gfp, struct mem_cgroup **_memcg, int order)
 	if (!current->mm || current->memcg_kmem_skip_account)
 		return true;
 
-	memcg = try_get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(current->mm);
-
-	/*
-	 * very rare case described in mem_cgroup_from_task. Unfortunately there
-	 * isn't much we can do without complicating this too much, and it would
-	 * be gfp-dependent anyway. Just let it go
-	 */
-	if (unlikely(!memcg))
-		return true;
+	memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_mm(current->mm);
 
 	if (!memcg_can_account_kmem(memcg)) {
 		css_put(&memcg->css);
-- 
1.9.0

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