Re: [PATCH v4 01/11] mm: memcontrol: prepare objcg API for non-kmem usage

[Johannes Weiner]

On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 03:57:17PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 07:36:24PM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> > On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 02:05:41PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
> > > -	memcg_reparent_list_lrus(memcg, parent);
> > > +	memcg_reparent_list_lrus(memcg, parent_mem_cgroup(memcg));
> > We effectively dropped this:
> > 	if (!parent)
> > 		parent = root_mem_cgroup;
> > Is it safe? (assuming v1 non-hierarchical mode, it's usually when all
> > is getting complicated)

Yes, it's correct. But it's a quiet, incidental cleanup, so I can see
why it's confusing. It might be better to split the dead code removal
into a separate patch - with the following in the changelog ;):

> Since no-hierarchy mode is deprecated after commit bef8620cd8e0
> ("mm: memcg: deprecate the non-hierarchical mode"), so
> parent_mem_cgroup() cannot return a NULL except root memcg,
> however, root memcg will not be offline, so it is safe. Right?