#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM
 
 LIST_HEAD(slab_root_caches);
+static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(memcg_kmem_wq_lock);
 
 void slab_init_memcg_params(struct kmem_cache *s)
 {
 
        __kmemcg_cache_deactivate(s);
 
+       /*
+        * memcg_kmem_wq_lock is used to synchronize memcg_params.dying
+        * flag and make sure that no new kmem_cache deactivation tasks
+        * are queued (see flush_memcg_workqueue() ).
+        */
+       spin_lock_irq(&memcg_kmem_wq_lock);
        if (s->memcg_params.root_cache->memcg_params.dying)
-               return;
+               goto unlock;
 
        /* pin memcg so that @s doesn't get destroyed in the middle */
        css_get(&s->memcg_params.memcg->css);
 
        s->memcg_params.work_fn = __kmemcg_cache_deactivate_after_rcu;
        call_rcu(&s->memcg_params.rcu_head, kmemcg_rcufn);
+unlock:
+       spin_unlock_irq(&memcg_kmem_wq_lock);
 }
 
 void memcg_deactivate_kmem_caches(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
 
 static void flush_memcg_workqueue(struct kmem_cache *s)
 {
-       mutex_lock(&slab_mutex);
+       spin_lock_irq(&memcg_kmem_wq_lock);
        s->memcg_params.dying = true;
-       mutex_unlock(&slab_mutex);
+       spin_unlock_irq(&memcg_kmem_wq_lock);
 
        /*
         * SLAB and SLUB deactivate the kmem_caches through call_rcu. Make