The cgroup core guarantees it's always safe to access the parent.
v2:
- added a comment in mem_cgroup_put() as suggested by Michal
- removed mem_cgroup_get(), otherwise gcc will warn that it's not used
Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizefan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 19 +++----------------
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 7fdd69d..9ca5a99 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -501,7 +501,6 @@ enum res_type {
*/
static DEFINE_MUTEX(memcg_create_mutex);
-static void mem_cgroup_get(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
static void mem_cgroup_put(struct mem_cgroup *memcg);
static inline
@@ -6125,19 +6124,10 @@ static void free_rcu(struct rcu_head *rcu_head)
schedule_work(&memcg->work_freeing);
}
-static void mem_cgroup_get(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
-{
- atomic_inc(&memcg->refcnt);
-}
-
static void __mem_cgroup_put(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, int count)
{
- if (atomic_sub_and_test(count, &memcg->refcnt)) {
- struct mem_cgroup *parent = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg);
+ if (atomic_sub_and_test(count, &memcg->refcnt))
call_rcu(&memcg->rcu_freeing, free_rcu);
- if (parent)
- mem_cgroup_put(parent);
- }
}
static void mem_cgroup_put(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
@@ -6239,12 +6229,9 @@ mem_cgroup_css_online(struct cgroup *cont)
res_counter_init(&memcg->kmem, &parent->kmem);
/*
- * We increment refcnt of the parent to ensure that we can
- * safely access it on res_counter_charge/uncharge.
- * This refcnt will be decremented when freeing this
- * mem_cgroup(see mem_cgroup_put).
+ * No need to take a reference to the parent because cgroup
+ * core guarantees its existence.
*/
- mem_cgroup_get(parent);
} else {
res_counter_init(&memcg->res, NULL);
res_counter_init(&memcg->memsw, NULL);
--
1.8.0.2
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