[PATCH] mm, memcg: Bypass high reclaim iteration for cgroup hierarchy root

[Chris Down]

The root of the hierarchy cannot have high set, so we will never reclaim
based on it. This makes that clearer and avoids another entry.

Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-mm@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: cgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxx
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 63bb6a2aab81..ab9d24a657b9 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2232,7 +2232,8 @@ static void reclaim_high(struct mem_cgroup *memcg,
 			continue;
 		memcg_memory_event(memcg, MEMCG_HIGH);
 		try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, nr_pages, gfp_mask, true);
-	} while ((memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg)));
+	} while ((memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg)) &&
+		 !mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg));
 }
 
 static void high_work_func(struct work_struct *work)
-- 
2.25.1