From: Wei Yang Subject: mm/memcg: non-hierarchical mode is deprecated After commit bef8620cd8e0 ("mm: memcg: deprecate the non-hierarchical mode"), we won't have a NULL parent except root_mem_cgroup. And this case is handled when (memcg == root). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220403020833.26164-1-richard.weiyang@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Wei Yang Acked-by: Michal Hocko Reviewed-by: Roman Gushchin Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Cc: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/memcontrol.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) --- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcg-non-hierarchical-mode-is-deprecated +++ a/mm/memcontrol.c @@ -6588,9 +6588,6 @@ void mem_cgroup_calculate_protection(str return; parent = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg); - /* No parent means a non-hierarchical mode on v1 memcg */ - if (!parent) - return; if (parent == root) { memcg->memory.emin = READ_ONCE(memcg->memory.min); _