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Message-ID: <20191114192018.GJ4163745@devbig004.ftw2.facebook.com>
Date:   Thu, 14 Nov 2019 11:20:18 -0800
From:   Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:     Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
Cc:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>,
        Michal Koutný <mkoutny@...e.com>,
        "linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kernel Team <Kernel-team@...com>,
        "stable@...r.kernel.org" <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: memcg: switch to css_tryget() in
 get_mem_cgroup_from_mm()

Hello,

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 08:16:57PM +0100, Michal Hocko wrote:
> Then what is the point of this function and what about all other users?

It is useful for controlling admissions of new userspace visible uses
- e.g. a tracepoint shouldn't be allowed to be attached to a cgroup
which has already been deleted.  We're just using it too liberally.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun