Hello, On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 09:58:10AM +0300, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote: > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c > index 19a4348974a4..7ef6ea9d5e4a 100644 > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c > @@ -333,6 +333,7 @@ struct cgroup_subsys_state *mem_cgroup_css_from_page(struct page *page) > /** > * page_cgroup_ino - return inode number of the memcg a page is charged to > * @page: the page > + * @online: return closest online ancestor > * > * Look up the closest online ancestor of the memory cgroup @page is charged to > * and return its inode number or 0 if @page is not charged to any cgroup. It > @@ -343,14 +344,14 @@ struct cgroup_subsys_state *mem_cgroup_css_from_page(struct page *page) > * after page_cgroup_ino() returns, so it only should be used by callers that > * do not care (such as procfs interfaces). > */ > -ino_t page_cgroup_ino(struct page *page) > +ino_t page_cgroup_ino(struct page *page, bool online) > { > struct mem_cgroup *memcg; > unsigned long ino = 0; > > rcu_read_lock(); > memcg = READ_ONCE(page->mem_cgroup); > - while (memcg && !(memcg->css.flags & CSS_ONLINE)) > + while (memcg && online && !(memcg->css.flags & CSS_ONLINE)) > memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg); > if (memcg) > ino = cgroup_ino(memcg->css.cgroup); We pin the ino till the cgroup is actually released now but that's an implementation detail which may change in the future, so I'm not sure this is a good idea. Can you instead use the 64bit filehandle exposed by kernfs? That's currently also based on ino (+gen) but it's something guarnateed to stay unique per cgroup and you can easily get to the cgroup using the fh too. Thanks. -- tejun