On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 11:58 PM Muchun Song <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The obj_cgroup_release() and memcg_reparent_objcgs() are serialized by
> the css_set_lock. We do not need to care about objcg->memcg being
> released in the process of obj_cgroup_release(). So there is no need
> to pin memcg before releasing objcg. Remove those pinning logic to
> simplfy the code.
>
> There are only two places that modifies the objcg->memcg. One is the
> initialization to objcg->memcg in the memcg_online_kmem(), another
> is objcgs reparenting in the memcg_reparent_objcgs(). It is also
> impossible for the two to run in parallel. So xchg() is unnecessary
> and it is enough to use WRITE_ONCE().
>
> Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt <[email protected]>

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