From: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: memcontrol: bail out early when !mm in get_mem_cgroup_from_mm When mm is NULL, we do not need to hold rcu lock and call css_tryget for the root memcg. And we also do not need to check !mm in every loop of while. So bail out early when !mm. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210417043538.9793-3-songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Xiongchun Duan <duanxiongchun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 25 ++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcontrol-bail-out-early-when-mm-in-get_mem_cgroup_from_mm +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -919,20 +919,23 @@ struct mem_cgroup *get_mem_cgroup_from_m if (mem_cgroup_disabled()) return NULL; + /* + * Page cache insertions can happen without an + * actual mm context, e.g. during disk probing + * on boot, loopback IO, acct() writes etc. + * + * No need to css_get on root memcg as the reference + * counting is disabled on the root level in the + * cgroup core. See CSS_NO_REF. + */ + if (unlikely(!mm)) + return root_mem_cgroup; + rcu_read_lock(); do { - /* - * Page cache insertions can happen without an - * actual mm context, e.g. during disk probing - * on boot, loopback IO, acct() writes etc. - */ - if (unlikely(!mm)) + memcg = mem_cgroup_from_task(rcu_dereference(mm->owner)); + if (unlikely(!memcg)) memcg = root_mem_cgroup; - else { - memcg = mem_cgroup_from_task(rcu_dereference(mm->owner)); - if (unlikely(!memcg)) - memcg = root_mem_cgroup; - } } while (!css_tryget(&memcg->css)); rcu_read_unlock(); return memcg; _
