Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "17 fixes"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
  drivers/acpi/scan.c: document why we don't need the device_hotplug_lock
  memremap: move from kernel/ to mm/
  lib/test_meminit.c: use GFP_ATOMIC in RCU critical section
  asm-generic: fix -Wtype-limits compiler warnings
  cgroup: kselftest: relax fs_spec checks
  mm/memory_hotplug.c: remove unneeded return for void function
  mm/migrate.c: initialize pud_entry in migrate_vma()
  coredump: split pipe command whitespace before expanding template
  page flags: prioritize kasan bits over last-cpuid
  ubsan: build ubsan.c more conservatively
  kasan: remove clang version check for KASAN_STACK
  mm: compaction: avoid 100% CPU usage during compaction when a task is killed
  mm: migrate: fix reference check race between __find_get_block() and migration
  mm: vmscan: check if mem cgroup is disabled or not before calling memcg slab shrinker
  ocfs2: remove set but not used variable 'last_hash'
  Revert "kmemleak: allow to coexist with fault injection"
  kernel/signal.c: fix a kernel-doc markup

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 44df66a98f2a..dbdc46a84f63 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -699,7 +699,14 @@ static unsigned long shrink_slab(gfp_t gfp_mask, int nid,
 	unsigned long ret, freed = 0;
 	struct shrinker *shrinker;
 
-	if (!mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
+	/*
+	 * The root memcg might be allocated even though memcg is disabled
+	 * via "cgroup_disable=memory" boot parameter.  This could make
+	 * mem_cgroup_is_root() return false, then just run memcg slab
+	 * shrink, but skip global shrink.  This may result in premature
+	 * oom.
+	 */
+	if (!mem_cgroup_disabled() && !mem_cgroup_is_root(memcg))
 		return shrink_slab_memcg(gfp_mask, nid, memcg, priority);
 
 	if (!down_read_trylock(&shrinker_rwsem))