[patch rfc] memcg: remove NULL check from lookup_page_cgroup() result

From: Johannes Weiner
Date: Thu Feb 03 2011 - 09:12:47 EST


The page_cgroup array is set up before even fork is initialized. I
seriously doubt that this code executes before the array is alloc'd.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 5 +----
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index a145c9e..6abaa10 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2343,10 +2343,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_charge_common(struct page *page, struct mm_struct *mm,
}

pc = lookup_page_cgroup(page);
- /* can happen at boot */
- if (unlikely(!pc))
- return 0;
- prefetchw(pc);
+ BUG_ON(!pc); /* XXX: remove this and move pc lookup into commit */

ret = __mem_cgroup_try_charge(mm, gfp_mask, &mem, oom, page_size);
if (ret || !mem)
--
1.7.4
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