[to-be-updated] mm-memcg-skip-the-rcu-lock-when-the-memcg-is-not-dying.patch removed from -mm tree

[to-be-updated] mm-memcg-skip-the-rcu-lock-when-the-memcg-is-not-dying.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: mm: memcg: skip the RCU lock when the memcg is not dying
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     mm-memcg-skip-the-rcu-lock-when-the-memcg-is-not-dying.patch

This patch was dropped because an updated version will be issued

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From: Hui Zhu <zhuhui@kylinos.cn>
Subject: mm: memcg: skip the RCU lock when the memcg is not dying
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2026 17:45:56 +0800

get_non_dying_memcg_start() takes rcu_read_lock() on every stat update,
but the lock only protects the upward walk to a non-dying ancestor, which
happens solely while a memcg is being offlined.  The dying check itself
reads the CSS_DYING flag of a memcg the caller already holds a reference
to, so it is safe without the lock.

Check memcg_is_dying() first and return immediately when the memcg is
alive, taking the RCU lock only on the rare dying path.  On an anon
fault/charge churn workload in a memcg this recovers the ~0.6% overhead
added by the previous patch (4368077 vs 4343159 pages/s before, back to
~4377000 pages/s after).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/0db657472c5278b2e2b87fbca7590b47ca520303.1788514750.git.zhuhui@kylinos.cn
Signed-off-by: Hui Zhu <zhuhui@kylinos.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.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: Wei Xu <weixugc@google.com>
Cc: Yuanchu Xie <yuanchu@google.com>
---

 mm/memcontrol.c |   14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

--- a/mm/memcontrol.c~mm-memcg-skip-the-rcu-lock-when-the-memcg-is-not-dying
+++ a/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -881,6 +881,17 @@ static long memcg_state_val_in_pages(int
 static inline struct mem_cgroup *
 get_non_dying_memcg_start(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, bool *rcu_locked)
 {
+	/*
+	 * Fast path: the caller holds a reference to @memcg, so reading
+	 * its CSS_DYING flag without the RCU lock is safe.  The RCU lock
+	 * is only needed to walk up to a non-dying ancestor, which
+	 * happens only while a memcg is actually being offlined.
+	 */
+	if (!memcg_is_dying(memcg)) {
+		*rcu_locked = false;
+		return memcg;
+	}
+
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	*rcu_locked = true;
 
@@ -892,6 +903,9 @@ get_non_dying_memcg_start(struct mem_cgr
 
 static inline void get_non_dying_memcg_end(bool rcu_locked)
 {
+	if (!rcu_locked)
+		return;
+
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 }
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from zhuhui@kylinos.cn are

mm-vmstat-annotate-data-race-for-per-cpu-pageset-fields.patch