The patch titled Subject: mm/memcg: set pos to prev unconditionally has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-memcg-set-pos-to-prev-unconditionally.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-memcg-set-pos-to-prev-unconditionally.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-memcg-set-pos-to-prev-unconditionally.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: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/memcg: set pos to prev unconditionally Current code sets pos to prev based on condition (prev && !reclaim), while we can do this unconditionally. Since: * If !reclaim, pos is the same as prev no matter it is NULL or not. * If reclaim, pos would be set properly from iter->position. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220225003437.12620-3-richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/memcontrol.c | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcg-set-pos-to-prev-unconditionally +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -980,7 +980,7 @@ struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_iter(struc struct mem_cgroup_reclaim_iter *iter; struct cgroup_subsys_state *css = NULL; struct mem_cgroup *memcg = NULL; - struct mem_cgroup *pos = NULL; + struct mem_cgroup *pos = prev; if (mem_cgroup_disabled()) return NULL; @@ -988,9 +988,6 @@ struct mem_cgroup *mem_cgroup_iter(struc if (!root) root = root_mem_cgroup; - if (prev && !reclaim) - pos = prev; - rcu_read_lock(); if (reclaim) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from richard.weiyang@xxxxxxxxx are mm-memcg-mem_cgroup_per_node-is-already-set-to-0-on-allocation.patch mm-memcg-retrieve-parent-memcg-from-cssparent.patch mm-memcg-set-memcg-after-css-verified-and-got-reference.patch mm-memcg-set-pos-to-prev-unconditionally.patch mm-memcg-move-generation-assignment-and-comparison-together.patch mm-page_alloc-add-same-penalty-is-enough-to-get-round-robin-order.patch mm-page_alloc-add-penalty-to-local_node.patch memcg-do-not-tweak-node-in-alloc_mem_cgroup_per_node_info.patch