The css_set_lock is used to guard the list of inherited objcgs. So there is no need to uncharge kernel memory under css_set_lock. Just move it out of the lock. Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c index 42d8c0f4ab1d..d9c7e44abcd0 100644 --- a/mm/memcontrol.c +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -289,9 +289,10 @@ static void obj_cgroup_release(struct percpu_ref *ref) WARN_ON_ONCE(nr_bytes & (PAGE_SIZE - 1)); nr_pages = nr_bytes >> PAGE_SHIFT; - spin_lock_irqsave(&css_set_lock, flags); if (nr_pages) obj_cgroup_uncharge_pages(objcg, nr_pages); + + spin_lock_irqsave(&css_set_lock, flags); list_del(&objcg->list); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&css_set_lock, flags); -- 2.11.0