Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] mm/memcg: introduce mem_cgroup_early_init

From: Shakeel Butt
Date: Thu Apr 24 2025 - 12:00:27 EST


On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 08:09:29PM +0800, Huan Yang wrote:
> When cgroup_init() creates root_mem_cgroup through css_online callback,
> some critical resources might not be fully initialized, forcing later
> operations to perform conditional checks for resource availability.
>
> This patch introduces mem_cgroup_early_init() to address the init order,
> it invoke before cgroup_init, so, compare mem_cgroup_init which invoked
> by initcall, mem_cgroup_early_init can use to prepare some key resources
> before root_mem_cgroup alloc.
>
> Signed-off-by: Huan Yang <link@xxxxxxxx>
> Suggested-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@xxxxxxxxx>

Please move this patch as the first patch of the series and also remove
the "early" from the function name as it has a different meaning in the
context of cgroup init. Something like either memcg_init() or
memcg_kmem_caches_init().