From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>, Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>,
Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>,
Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org>,
Meta kernel team <kernel-team@meta.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3/4] memcg: int16_t for cached slab stats
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 22:31:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260520053123.2709959-4-shakeel.butt@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260520053123.2709959-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Currently struct obj_stock_pcp stores cached slab stats in 'int' which
is 4 bytes per counter on 64-bit machines. Switch them to int16_t to
shrink the cached metadata.
The existing PAGE_SIZE flush in __account_obj_stock() bounds *bytes at
PAGE_SIZE on 4KiB and 16KiB page archs, well within int16_t. On 64KiB
pages PAGE_SIZE is well above S16_MAX so that flush never fires, and a
sufficiently long run of accumulations would overflow the cache. Add
an explicit S16_MAX guard before each add: when the next add would
push abs(*bytes) past S16_MAX, fold the cached value into @nr and
flush directly via mod_objcg_mlstate() before the accumulation.
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index b3d63d9f267c..1ed27fd06850 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2022,8 +2022,8 @@ struct obj_stock_pcp {
uint16_t nr_bytes;
struct obj_cgroup *cached_objcg;
int16_t node_id;
- int nr_slab_reclaimable_b;
- int nr_slab_unreclaimable_b;
+ int16_t nr_slab_reclaimable_b;
+ int16_t nr_slab_unreclaimable_b;
struct work_struct work;
unsigned long flags;
@@ -3158,7 +3158,7 @@ static void __account_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
struct obj_stock_pcp *stock, int nr,
struct pglist_data *pgdat, enum node_stat_item idx)
{
- int *bytes;
+ int16_t *bytes;
/*
* Though at the moment MAX_NUMNODES <= 1024 in all archs but let's make
@@ -3195,6 +3195,16 @@ static void __account_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
bytes = (idx == NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B) ? &stock->nr_slab_reclaimable_b
: &stock->nr_slab_unreclaimable_b;
+ /*
+ * To avoid overflow or underflow, flush directly if accumulating @nr
+ * would push the cached value past S16_MAX.
+ */
+ if (abs(nr + *bytes) >= S16_MAX) {
+ nr += *bytes;
+ *bytes = 0;
+ goto direct;
+ }
+
/*
* Even for large object >= PAGE_SIZE, the vmstat data will still be
* cached locally at least once before pushing it out.
--
2.53.0-Meta
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-20 5:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-20 5:31 [PATCH 0/4] memcg: shrink obj_stock_pcp and cache multiple objcgs Shakeel Butt
2026-05-20 5:31 ` [PATCH 1/4] memcg: store node_id instead of pglist_data pointer Shakeel Butt
2026-05-20 6:01 ` Harry Yoo
2026-05-20 6:13 ` Muchun Song
2026-05-20 5:31 ` [PATCH 2/4] memcg: uint16_t for nr_bytes in obj_stock_pcp Shakeel Butt
2026-05-20 6:41 ` Harry Yoo
2026-05-20 7:01 ` Harry Yoo
2026-05-21 1:01 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-05-20 13:20 ` David Laight
2026-05-21 1:03 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-05-20 5:31 ` Shakeel Butt [this message]
2026-05-20 7:25 ` [PATCH 3/4] memcg: int16_t for cached slab stats Harry Yoo
2026-05-20 5:31 ` [PATCH 4/4] memcg: multi objcg charge support Shakeel Butt
2026-05-20 9:35 ` Harry Yoo
2026-05-21 1:05 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-05-21 1:43 ` Harry Yoo
2026-05-21 3:22 ` Joshua Hahn
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