The patch titled Subject: memcg: disable hierarchy support if bound to the legacy cgroup hierarchy has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is memcg-disable-hierarchy-support-if-bound-to-the-legacy-cgroup-hierarchy.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/memcg-disable-hierarchy-support-if-bound-to-the-legacy-cgroup-hierarchy.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/memcg-disable-hierarchy-support-if-bound-to-the-legacy-cgroup-hierarchy.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: memcg: disable hierarchy support if bound to the legacy cgroup hierarchy If the memory cgroup controller is initially mounted in the scope of the default cgroup hierarchy and then remounted to a legacy hierarchy, it will still have hierarchy support enabled, which is incorrect. We should disable hierarchy support if bound to the legacy cgroup hierarchy. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-disable-hierarchy-support-if-bound-to-the-legacy-cgroup-hierarchy mm/memcontrol.c --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-disable-hierarchy-support-if-bound-to-the-legacy-cgroup-hierarchy +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -5232,7 +5232,9 @@ static void mem_cgroup_bind(struct cgrou * on for the root memcg is enough. */ if (cgroup_on_dfl(root_css->cgroup)) - mem_cgroup_from_css(root_css)->use_hierarchy = true; + root_mem_cgroup->use_hierarchy = true; + else + root_mem_cgroup->use_hierarchy = false; } static u64 memory_current_read(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from vdavydov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are memcg-disable-hierarchy-support-if-bound-to-the-legacy-cgroup-hierarchy.patch mm-hotplug-fix-concurrent-memory-hot-add-deadlock.patch ocfs2-copy-fs-uuid-to-superblock.patch cleancache-zap-uuid-arg-of-cleancache_init_shared_fs.patch cleancache-forbid-overriding-cleancache_ops.patch cleancache-remove-limit-on-the-number-of-cleancache-enabled-filesystems.patch cleancache-remove-limit-on-the-number-of-cleancache-enabled-filesystems-fix.patch mm-vmscan-fix-the-page-state-calculation-in-too_many_isolated.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html