+ memcg-v1-bail-out-reclaim-when-memcg-is-dying.patch added to mm-new branch

+ memcg-v1-bail-out-reclaim-when-memcg-is-dying.patch added to mm-new branch

[Andrew Morton]

The patch titled
     Subject: memcg-v1: bail out reclaim when memcg is dying
has been added to the -mm mm-new branch.  Its filename is
     memcg-v1-bail-out-reclaim-when-memcg-is-dying.patch

This patch will shortly appear at
     https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/memcg-v1-bail-out-reclaim-when-memcg-is-dying.patch

This patch will later appear in the mm-new branch at
    git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
Subject: memcg-v1: bail out reclaim when memcg is dying
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 20:02:30 +0800

The legacy memory.limit_in_bytes and memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes writers
retry page_counter_set_max() by reclaiming synchronously in the writer
context.  memory.force_empty similarly loops in synchronous reclaim until
the cgroup is empty or reclaim stops making progress.

These writes hold a kernfs active reference on the file.  If cgroup
removal starts in parallel, the remover sets CSS_DYING and then waits in
kernfs_drain() under cgroup_mutex for the active reference to drain. 
Continuing reclaim after the memcg is dying can therefore delay cgroup
removal and keep cgroup_mutex held for a long time.

Stop the v1 reclaim loops once the memcg is dying.  For limit resizing,
keep the existing -EBUSY semantics when the new limit could not be
installed.  For memory.force_empty, keep the existing best-effort success
semantics.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260702120235.376752-5-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
Reported-by: Zhou Yingfu <yingfu.zhou@shopee.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 mm/memcontrol-v1.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c~memcg-v1-bail-out-reclaim-when-memcg-is-dying
+++ a/mm/memcontrol-v1.c
@@ -1805,6 +1805,10 @@ static int mem_cgroup_resize_max(struct
 		if (!ret)
 			break;
 
+		/* cgroup_rmdir() waits for us with cgroup_mutex held. */
+		if (memcg_is_dying(memcg))
+			break;
+
 		if (!drained) {
 			drain_all_stock(memcg);
 			drained = true;
@@ -1843,6 +1847,10 @@ static int mem_cgroup_force_empty(struct
 		if (signal_pending(current))
 			return -EINTR;
 
+		/* cgroup_rmdir() waits for us with cgroup_mutex held. */
+		if (memcg_is_dying(memcg))
+			break;
+
 		if (!try_to_free_mem_cgroup_pages(memcg, 1, GFP_KERNEL,
 						  MEMCG_RECLAIM_MAY_SWAP, NULL))
 			nr_retries--;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from jiayuan.chen@shopee.com are

mm-damon-core-split-a-fraction-of-regions-when-nr_regions-exceeds-max-2.patch
mm-damon-tests-core-kunit-test-split-above-max_nr_regions-2.patch
memcg-bail-out-memoryhigh-when-memcg-is-dying.patch
memcg-bail-out-memorymax-when-memcg-is-dying.patch
memcg-bail-out-proactive-reclaim-when-memcg-is-dying.patch
memcg-v1-bail-out-reclaim-when-memcg-is-dying.patch