linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix forget to obtain the ref to objcg in split_page

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Date:   Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:04:48 -0700
From:   Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>
To:     Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>
Cc:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Xiongchun duan <duanxiongchun@...edance.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcontrol: fix forget to obtain the ref to objcg in split_page_memcg

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 8:02 PM Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com> wrote:
>
> Christian Borntraeger reported a warning about "percpu ref
> (obj_cgroup_release) <= 0 (-1) after switching to atomic".
> Because we forgot to obtain the reference to the objcg and
> wrongly obtain the reference of memcg.
>
> Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@...edance.com>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@...gle.com>