[merged mm-stable] memcg-bail-out-memorymax-when-memcg-is-dying.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-stable] memcg-bail-out-memorymax-when-memcg-is-dying.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: memcg: bail out memory.max when memcg is dying
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     memcg-bail-out-memorymax-when-memcg-is-dying.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
Subject: memcg: bail out memory.max when memcg is dying
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2026 20:02:28 +0800

memory.max has the same high-latency reclaim loop as memory.high, and may
additionally invoke the OOM killer on a cgroup that is already going away,
further delaying its removal.

Mitigate this by bailing out of the loop once memcg_is_dying().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260702120235.376752-3-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.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/memcontrol.c~memcg-bail-out-memorymax-when-memcg-is-dying
+++ a/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4854,6 +4854,10 @@ static ssize_t memory_max_write(struct k
 		if (signal_pending(current))
 			break;
 
+		/* cgroup_rmdir() waits for us with cgroup_mutex held. */
+		if (memcg_is_dying(memcg))
+			break;
+
 		if (!drained) {
 			drain_all_stock(memcg);
 			drained = true;
_

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