ULL with the last owner going away, but nobody cared until khugepaged came along. Even then it wasn't a problem because the final mmput() on an mm was forced to acquire and release mmap_sem in write-mode, preventing an exiting owner to go away while the mmap_sem was held, and until "692e0b3 mm: thp: optimize memcg charge in khugepaged", the memory cgroup charge was protected by mmap_sem in read-mode. Instead of going back to relying on the mmap_sem to enforce lifetime of a task, this patch ensures that mm->owner is properly set to NULL when the last possible owner is exiting, which the memory controller can handle just fine. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comments] Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Reported-by: Hugh Dickins Reported-by: Dave Jones Reviewed-by: Andrea Arcangeli Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds ÍÍI›”Jx