On Wed 14-04-21 18:04:35, Muchun Song wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 5:24 PM Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com> wrote: > > > > On Tue 13-04-21 14:51:48, Muchun Song wrote: > > > 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. > > > > mem_cgroup_charge and other callers unconditionally drop the reference > > so how come this does not underflow reference count? > > For the root memcg, the CSS_NO_REF flag is set, so css_get > and css_put do not get or put reference.
Ohh, right you are. I must have forgot about that special case. I am pretty sure I (and likely few more) will stumble over that in the future again. A small comment explaining that the reference can be safely ignore would be helpful. Anyway Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mho...@suse.com> Thanks! -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
