On 4/26/22 05:50, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 01:56:02PM +0300, Vasily Averin wrote:
>> +
>> +static inline struct mem_cgroup *get_net_memcg(void *p)
>> +{
>> + struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
>> +
>> + memcg = get_mem_cgroup_from_kmem(p);
>> +
>> + if (!memcg)
>> + memcg = root_mem_cgroup;
>> +
>> + return memcg;
>> +}
>
> I'm not a fan of this helper: it has nothing to do with the networking,
> actually it's a wrapper of get_mem_cgroup_from_kmem() replacing NULL
> with root_mem_cgroup.
>
> Overall the handling of root_mem_cgroup is very messy, I don't blame
> this patch. But I wonder if it's better to simple move this code
> to the call site without introducing a new function?
Unfortunately root_mem_cgroup is defined under CONFIG_MEMCG,
so we cannot use it outside without ifdefs.
> Alternatively, you can introduce something like:
> struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_or_root(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> {
> return memcg ? memcg : root_mem_cgroup;
> }
Thank you for the hint, this looks much better.
Vasily Averin
