From: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxx> I caught myself doing something like the following outside memcg core: memcg_id = -1; if (memcg && memcg_kmem_is_active(memcg)) memcg_id = memcg_cache_id(memcg); to be able to handle all possible memcgs in a sane manner. In particular, the root cache will have kmemcg_id = -1 (just because we don't call memcg_kmem_init to the root cache since it is not limitable). We have always coped with that by making sure we sanitize which cache is passed to memcg_cache_id. Although this example is given for root, what we really need to know is whether or not a cache is kmem active. But outside the memcg core testing for root, for instance, is not trivial since we don't export mem_cgroup_is_root. I ended up realizing that this tests really belong inside memcg_cache_id. This patch moves a similar but stronger test inside memcg_cache_id and make sure it always return a meaningful value. Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index f1a0ae6..02b5176 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -3073,7 +3073,9 @@ void memcg_cache_list_add(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, struct kmem_cache *cachep) */ int memcg_cache_id(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) { - return memcg ? memcg->kmemcg_id : -1; + if (!memcg || !memcg_can_account_kmem(memcg)) + return -1; + return memcg->kmemcg_id; } /* -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe cgroups" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html