The patch titled Subject: mm: kmem: remove redundant checks from get_obj_cgroup_from_current() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-kmem-remove-redundant-checks-from-get_obj_cgroup_from_current.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-kmem-remove-redundant-checks-from-get_obj_cgroup_from_current.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-kmem-remove-redundant-checks-from-get_obj_cgroup_from_current.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/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Subject: mm: kmem: remove redundant checks from get_obj_cgroup_from_current() There are checks for current->mm and current->active_memcg in get_obj_cgroup_from_current(), but these checks are redundant: memcg_kmem_bypass() called just above performs same checks. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827225843.1270629-3-guro@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-kmem-remove-redundant-checks-from-get_obj_cgroup_from_current +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -2919,9 +2919,6 @@ __always_inline struct obj_cgroup *get_o if (memcg_kmem_bypass()) return NULL; - if (unlikely(!current->mm && !current->active_memcg)) - return NULL; - rcu_read_lock(); if (unlikely(current->active_memcg)) memcg = rcu_dereference(current->active_memcg); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from guro@xxxxxx are mm-rework-remote-memcg-charging-api-to-support-nesting.patch mm-kmem-move-memcg_kmem_bypass-calls-to-get_mem-obj_cgroup_from_current.patch mm-kmem-remove-redundant-checks-from-get_obj_cgroup_from_current.patch mm-kmem-prepare-remote-memcg-charging-infra-for-interrupt-contexts.patch mm-kmem-enable-kernel-memcg-accounting-from-interrupt-contexts.patch mm-vmstat-fix-proc-sys-vm-stat_refresh-generating-false-warnings.patch mm-vmstat-fix-proc-sys-vm-stat_refresh-generating-false-warnings-fix.patch