Re: [PATCH v7 06/10] mm: don't check the dying flag on kmem_cache creation
From: Vladimir Davydov
Date: Sun Jun 16 2019 - 12:31:44 EST
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 04:18:09PM -0700, Roman Gushchin wrote:
> There is no point in checking the root_cache->memcg_params.dying
> flag on kmem_cache creation path. New allocations shouldn't be
> performed using a dead root kmem_cache, so no new memcg kmem_cache
> creation can be scheduled after the flag is set. And if it was
> scheduled before, flush_memcg_workqueue() will wait for it anyway.
>
> So let's drop this check to simplify the code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@xxxxxxxxx>