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[v2,08/10] mm/memcg: Add a comment regarding the release `obj'.

Message ID 20220808125602.97747-9-goliath@infraroot.at
State New
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Series Backport MEMCG changes from v5.17 | expand

Commit Message

David Oberhollenzer Aug. 8, 2022, 12:56 p.m. UTC 
From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

Please fold into
    mm/memcg: Protect memcg_stock with a local_lock_t

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
[do: backported to v5.15]
Signed-off-by: David Oberhollenzer <goliath@infraroot.at>
---
 mm/memcontrol.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 50d2d5432018..70c374761bb8 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3249,6 +3249,10 @@  static struct obj_cgroup *drain_obj_stock(struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock)
 	}
 
 	stock->cached_objcg = NULL;
+	/*
+	 * The `old' objects needs to be released by the caller via
+	 * obj_cgroup_put() outside of memcg_stock_pcp::stock_lock.
+	 */
 	return old;
 }