From: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx> Memory charged on group B abserved on belowing v2 hierarchy where we just would like to only have group E's memory be controlled and B's descendants compete freely for memory. This should be the consequences of unified hierarchy. Solve this by have the cgroup without valid memory css alloced use root_mem_cgroup instead of its ancestor's. A(subtree_control = memory) - B(subtree_control = NULL) - C() \ D() - E(subtree_control = memory) - F() \ G() Signed-off-by: Zhaoyang Huang <zhaoyang.huang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c index 1779ccd..b29b3f6 100644 --- a/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c @@ -533,6 +533,14 @@ static struct cgroup_subsys_state *cgroup_e_css_by_mask(struct cgroup *cgrp, * can't test the csses directly. Test ss_mask. */ while (!(cgroup_ss_mask(cgrp) & (1 << ss->id))) { + /* + * charging to the parent cgroup which hasn't distribute + * memory control to its descendants doesn't make sense + * especially on cgroup v2, where the parent could be configured + * to use memory controller as its sibling want to use it + */ + if (memory_cgrp_id == ss->id) + return &root_mem_cgroup->css; cgrp = cgroup_parent(cgrp); if (!cgrp) return NULL; -- 1.9.1