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diff --git a/kernel/cgroup.c b/kernel/cgroup.c
index e2f46ba37f72..aa95591c1430 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup.c
@@ -4845,12 +4845,16 @@ static int __init cgroup_wq_init(void)
/*
* There isn't much point in executing destruction path in
* parallel. Good chunk is serialized with cgroup_mutex anyway.
- * Use 1 for @max_active.
+ *
+ * XXX: Must be ordered to make sure parent is offlined after
+ * children. The ordering requirement is for memcg where a
+ * parent's offline may wait for a child's leading to deadlock. In
+ * the long term, this should be fixed from memcg side.
*
* We would prefer to do this in cgroup_init() above, but that
* is called before init_workqueues(): so leave this until after.
*/
- cgroup_destroy_wq = alloc_workqueue("cgroup_destroy", 0, 1);
+ cgroup_destroy_wq = alloc_ordered_workqueue("cgroup_destroy", 0);
BUG_ON(!cgroup_destroy_wq);
/*