Re: [PATCH v5] mm: mglru: fix stale batch updates after memcg reparenting

[Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2026 at 11:43:18PM +0800, Qi Zheng wrote:
> From: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
> 
> The mglru page table walker batches per-generation size deltas in
> walk->nr_pages while walking page tables without holding the lruvec lock.
> The reset_batch_size() later folds those deltas into walk->lruvec under
> the lruvec lock.
> 
> The page table walker can run concurrently with the memcg reparenting path
> as follows:
> 
> CPU0                           CPU1
> ====                           ====
> 
> walk_mm
> --> walk_page_range
>     --> update_batch_size
>         --> walk->nr_pages += delta
> 
>                               mem_cgroup_css_offline
>                               --> memcg_reparent_objcgs
>                                   --> lock lruvec
>                                       lru_gen_reparent_memcg
>                                       --> reparent child folios to parent
>                                       unlock lruvec
> 
>     lock lruvec
>     reset_batch_size
>     --> child lrugen->nr_pages += delta
> 
> This will trigger the following warning in lru_gen_exit_memcg():
> 
> 	VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(memchr_inv(lruvec->lrugen.nr_pages, 0,
> 				   sizeof(lruvec->lrugen.nr_pages)));
> 
> And the user-visible impact of underestimated nr_pages in MGLRU was
> premature OOMs because MGLRU does not try to reclaim memory when nr_pages
> reaches zero, but there are still more pages.
> 
> To fix it, make reset_batch_size() check CSS_DYING under RCU before
> flushing the pending batch. A non-dying memcg keeps the original lruvec
> stable against RCU-delayed offlining; a dying memcg redirects the deltas
> to the first non-dying ancestor.
> 
> Reported-by: Peiyang He <peiyang_he@smail.nju.edu.cn>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5A9E929D82717101+12fcf643-efb8-4b9a-a53a-1e28cc894f0b@smail.nju.edu.cn
> Fixes: f304652609ea ("mm: vmscan: prepare for reparenting MGLRU folios")
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
> Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>