The patch titled Subject: mm: memcg: fix obsolete code comments has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-memcg-fix-obsolete-code-comments.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-memcg-fix-obsolete-code-comments.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-memcg-fix-obsolete-code-comments.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: memcg: fix obsolete code comments This patch fixes/removes some obsolete comments in the code related to the kernel memory accounting: - kmem_cache->memcg_params.memcg_caches has been removed by commit 9855609bde03 ("mm: memcg/slab: use a single set of kmem_caches for all accounted allocations") - memcg->kmemcg_id is not used as a gate for kmem accounting since commit 0b8f73e10428 ("mm: memcontrol: clean up alloc, online, offline, free functions") Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201110184615.311974-1-guro@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/memcontrol.h | 6 ++---- mm/memcontrol.c | 6 ------ 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h~mm-memcg-fix-obsolete-code-comments +++ a/include/linux/memcontrol.h @@ -310,7 +310,6 @@ struct mem_cgroup { int tcpmem_pressure; #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM - /* Index in the kmem_cache->memcg_params.memcg_caches array */ int kmemcg_id; enum memcg_kmem_state kmem_state; struct obj_cgroup __rcu *objcg; @@ -1641,9 +1640,8 @@ static inline void memcg_kmem_uncharge_p } /* - * helper for accessing a memcg's index. It will be used as an index in the - * child cache array in kmem_cache, and also to derive its name. This function - * will return -1 when this is not a kmem-limited memcg. + * A helper for accessing memcg's kmem_id, used for getting + * corresponding LRU lists. */ static inline int memcg_cache_id(struct mem_cgroup *memcg) { --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcg-fix-obsolete-code-comments +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -3680,12 +3680,6 @@ static int memcg_online_kmem(struct mem_ static_branch_enable(&memcg_kmem_enabled_key); - /* - * A memory cgroup is considered kmem-online as soon as it gets - * kmemcg_id. Setting the id after enabling static branching will - * guarantee no one starts accounting before all call sites are - * patched. - */ memcg->kmemcg_id = memcg_id; memcg->kmem_state = KMEM_ONLINE; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from guro@xxxxxx are mm-memcontrol-use-helpers-to-read-pages-memcg-data.patch mm-memcontrol-slab-use-helpers-to-access-slab-pages-memcg_data.patch mm-introduce-page-memcg-flags.patch mm-convert-page-kmemcg-type-to-a-page-memcg-flag.patch mm-memcg-fix-obsolete-code-comments.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