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* [PATCH for-7.4 0/9] memcg: remove the v1 soft limit
@ 2026-08-11 20:31 Shakeel Butt
  2026-08-11 20:31 ` [PATCH 1/9] memcg: make the v1 soft limit knob inert Shakeel Butt
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  0 siblings, 9 replies; 10+ messages in thread
From: Shakeel Butt @ 2026-08-11 20:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton
  Cc: Michal Hocko, Johannes Weiner, Roman Gushchin, Muchun Song,
	David Hildenbrand, Lorenzo Stoakes, Kairui Song, Qi Zheng,
	Barry Song, Axel Rasmussen, Meta kernel team, linux-mm, cgroups,
	linux-kernel

Syzbot reported [1] a set_mm_walk() warning from kswapd. Soft limit
reclaim is the only thing that runs shrink_lruvec() from kswapd with a
target memcg set, and thus the only way kswapd can reach
lru_gen_shrink_lruvec() and in turn set_mm_walk(). The offender,
mem_cgroup_shrink_node(), has long carried a "Only used by soft limit
reclaim. Do not reuse for anything else." comment and a priority hack,
and it simply never got taught about MGLRU.

Rather than teach it, let's delete it. The v1 soft limit was deprecated
in v6.12 by commit 569c4f62d84a ("memcg: initiate deprecation of v1
soft limit"). Nobody has reported depending on it in the ~21 months
since, and v2 has covered the same ground for a long time with
memory.low and memory.min.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/6a7a6929.b50370da.49fe0.005e.GAE@google.com/ [1]

Shakeel Butt (9):
  memcg: make the v1 soft limit knob inert
  memcg: remove v1 soft limit reclaim
  memcg: remove mem_cgroup_shrink_node()
  memcg: remove the soft limit reclaim tracepoints
  memcg: remove the soft limit rbtree
  memcg: remove lru_gen_soft_reclaim()
  memcg: remove the per-node soft limit tree fields
  memcg: remove mem_cgroup->soft_limit
  memcg: simplify v1 event ratelimiting

 .../admin-guide/cgroup-v1/memory.rst          |  49 +-
 include/linux/memcontrol.h                    |  27 --
 include/linux/mmzone.h                        |  30 +-
 include/trace/events/vmscan.h                 |  14 -
 mm/internal.h                                 |   4 -
 mm/memcontrol-v1.c                            | 435 ++----------------
 mm/memcontrol-v1.h                            |  12 +-
 mm/memcontrol.c                               |   7 +-
 mm/vmscan.c                                   |  96 +---
 9 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 608 deletions(-)

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