On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 03:57:17PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 07:36:24PM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote: > > On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 02:05:41PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote: > > > - memcg_reparent_list_lrus(memcg, parent); > > > + memcg_reparent_list_lrus(memcg, parent_mem_cgroup(memcg)); > > We effectively dropped this: > > if (!parent) > > parent = root_mem_cgroup; > > Is it safe? (assuming v1 non-hierarchical mode, it's usually when all > > is getting complicated) Yes, it's correct. But it's a quiet, incidental cleanup, so I can see why it's confusing. It might be better to split the dead code removal into a separate patch - with the following in the changelog ;): > Since no-hierarchy mode is deprecated after commit bef8620cd8e0 > ("mm: memcg: deprecate the non-hierarchical mode"), so > parent_mem_cgroup() cannot return a NULL except root memcg, > however, root memcg will not be offline, so it is safe. Right?