* [PATCH v2 0/4] memcg: shrink obj_stock_pcp and cache multiple objcgs
@ 2026-05-22 1:19 Shakeel Butt
2026-05-22 1:19 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] memcg: store node_id instead of pglist_data pointer Shakeel Butt
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From: Shakeel Butt @ 2026-05-22 1:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin, Muchun Song,
Qi Zheng, Alexandre Ghiti, Joshua Hahn, Harry Yoo,
Meta kernel team, linux-mm, cgroups, linux-kernel,
kernel test robot
Commit 01b9da291c49 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg
per-node type") split a memcg's single obj_cgroup into one per NUMA
node so that reparenting LRU folios can take per-node lru locks. As a
side effect, the per-CPU obj_stock_pcp -- which caches a single
cached_objcg pointer -- thrashes on workloads where threads of the
same memcg run on different NUMA nodes. The kernel test robot reported
a 67.7% regression on stress-ng.switch.ops_per_sec from this pattern.
Commit d0211878ce06 ("memcg: cache obj_stock by memcg, not by objcg
pointer") landed as a temporary fix by treating sibling per-node
objcgs as equivalent for the cache lookup, intended to be reverted
once per-node kmem accounting is introduced. This series takes a more
general approach: cache multiple objcgs per CPU using the multi-slot
pattern memcg_stock_pcp already uses, so the per-node objcg variants
of one memcg can all coexist in the stock without ever forcing a
drain. The temporary fix can then be reverted.
To avoid increasing the per-CPU cache footprint, the first three
patches shrink the existing single-slot obj_stock_pcp fields.
The final patch converts cached_objcg and nr_bytes into
NR_OBJ_STOCK=5 slot arrays and reorders the struct so the entire
consume/refill/account hot path fits within a single 64-byte cache
line on non-debug 64-bit builds (verified with pahole).
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202605121641.b6a60cb0-lkp@intel.com
Fixes: 01b9da291c49 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg per-node type")
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Shakeel Butt (4):
memcg: store node_id instead of pglist_data pointer
memcg: uint16_t for nr_bytes in obj_stock_pcp
memcg: int16_t for cached slab stats
memcg: multi objcg charge support
mm/memcontrol.c | 214 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 157 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-)
--
Changes since v1:
http://lore.kernel.org/20260520053123.2709959-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev
- Collected review tags (Harry & Muchun)
- Fix comparison operators (Harry)
- Use round robin for drain
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@ 2026-05-22 1:19 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-05-22 2:27 ` Qi Zheng
2026-05-22 1:19 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] memcg: uint16_t for nr_bytes in obj_stock_pcp Shakeel Butt
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From: Shakeel Butt @ 2026-05-22 1:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin, Muchun Song,
Qi Zheng, Alexandre Ghiti, Joshua Hahn, Harry Yoo,
Meta kernel team, linux-mm, cgroups, linux-kernel,
kernel test robot
The struct obj_stock_pcp stores a pointer to pglist_data for the slab
stats cached on the cpu. On 64-bit machines, this costs 8 bytes. The
pointer is not strictly required: NODE_DATA() can recover it from the
node id. Replace cached_pgdat with int16_t node_id and use NUMA_NO_NODE
as the "no stats cached" sentinel.
At the moment all the archs limit MAX_NUMNODES to 1024 so int16_t is
plenty; a BUILD_BUG_ON() makes sure we notice if that ever changes.
Fixes: 01b9da291c49 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg per-node type")
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org>
---
Changes since v1:
- Added tags in the commit message
mm/memcontrol.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index b8caeb7ccaa3..d7c162946719 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2021,7 +2021,7 @@ struct obj_stock_pcp {
local_trylock_t lock;
unsigned int nr_bytes;
struct obj_cgroup *cached_objcg;
- struct pglist_data *cached_pgdat;
+ int16_t node_id;
int nr_slab_reclaimable_b;
int nr_slab_unreclaimable_b;
@@ -2031,6 +2031,7 @@ struct obj_stock_pcp {
static DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct obj_stock_pcp, obj_stock) = {
.lock = INIT_LOCAL_TRYLOCK(lock),
+ .node_id = NUMA_NO_NODE,
};
static DEFINE_MUTEX(percpu_charge_mutex);
@@ -3159,6 +3160,13 @@ static void __account_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
{
int *bytes;
+ /*
+ * Though at the moment MAX_NUMNODES <= 1024 in all archs but let's make
+ * sure it does not exceed S16_MAX otherwise we need to fix node_id type
+ * in struct obj_stock_pcp.
+ */
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(MAX_NUMNODES >= S16_MAX);
+
if (!stock || READ_ONCE(stock->cached_objcg) != objcg)
goto direct;
@@ -3166,9 +3174,11 @@ static void __account_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
* Save vmstat data in stock and skip vmstat array update unless
* accumulating over a page of vmstat data or when pgdat changes.
*/
- if (stock->cached_pgdat != pgdat) {
+ if (stock->node_id == NUMA_NO_NODE) {
+ stock->node_id = pgdat->node_id;
+ } else if (stock->node_id != pgdat->node_id) {
/* Flush the existing cached vmstat data */
- struct pglist_data *oldpg = stock->cached_pgdat;
+ struct pglist_data *oldpg = NODE_DATA(stock->node_id);
if (stock->nr_slab_reclaimable_b) {
mod_objcg_mlstate(objcg, oldpg, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B,
@@ -3180,7 +3190,7 @@ static void __account_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
stock->nr_slab_unreclaimable_b);
stock->nr_slab_unreclaimable_b = 0;
}
- stock->cached_pgdat = pgdat;
+ stock->node_id = pgdat->node_id;
}
bytes = (idx == NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B) ? &stock->nr_slab_reclaimable_b
@@ -3276,19 +3286,21 @@ static void drain_obj_stock(struct obj_stock_pcp *stock)
* Flush the vmstat data in current stock
*/
if (stock->nr_slab_reclaimable_b || stock->nr_slab_unreclaimable_b) {
+ struct pglist_data *oldpg = NODE_DATA(stock->node_id);
+
if (stock->nr_slab_reclaimable_b) {
- mod_objcg_mlstate(old, stock->cached_pgdat,
+ mod_objcg_mlstate(old, oldpg,
NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B,
stock->nr_slab_reclaimable_b);
stock->nr_slab_reclaimable_b = 0;
}
if (stock->nr_slab_unreclaimable_b) {
- mod_objcg_mlstate(old, stock->cached_pgdat,
+ mod_objcg_mlstate(old, oldpg,
NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B,
stock->nr_slab_unreclaimable_b);
stock->nr_slab_unreclaimable_b = 0;
}
- stock->cached_pgdat = NULL;
+ stock->node_id = NUMA_NO_NODE;
}
WRITE_ONCE(stock->cached_objcg, NULL);
--
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* [PATCH v2 2/4] memcg: uint16_t for nr_bytes in obj_stock_pcp
2026-05-22 1:19 [PATCH v2 0/4] memcg: shrink obj_stock_pcp and cache multiple objcgs Shakeel Butt
2026-05-22 1:19 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] memcg: store node_id instead of pglist_data pointer Shakeel Butt
@ 2026-05-22 1:19 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-05-22 2:23 ` Qi Zheng
2026-05-22 6:27 ` Muchun Song
2026-05-22 1:19 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] memcg: int16_t for cached slab stats Shakeel Butt
2026-05-22 1:19 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] memcg: multi objcg charge support Shakeel Butt
3 siblings, 2 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Shakeel Butt @ 2026-05-22 1:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin, Muchun Song,
Qi Zheng, Alexandre Ghiti, Joshua Hahn, Harry Yoo,
Meta kernel team, linux-mm, cgroups, linux-kernel,
kernel test robot
Currently struct obj_stock_pcp stores nr_bytes in an 'unsigned int'
which is 4 bytes on 64-bit machines. Switch the field to uint16_t to
shrink the per-CPU cache.
The kernel supports PAGE_SIZE_4KB, _8KB, _16KB, _32KB, _64KB and
_256KB (see HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_* in arch/Kconfig). After the
PAGE_SIZE-aligned flush in __refill_obj_stock(), the sub-page
remainder fits in uint16_t up through 64KiB pages where PAGE_SIZE - 1
== U16_MAX, but on 256KiB pages PAGE_SIZE - 1 == 0x3FFFF exceeds
U16_MAX. The accumulator also needs to stay within uint16_t between
page-aligned flushes on 64KiB pages where PAGE_SIZE itself is
U16_MAX + 1.
Accumulate the new total in an 'unsigned int' local, then:
1. Flush whenever the accumulator would hit U16_MAX. Together with
the existing allow_uncharge flush at PAGE_SIZE, this keeps the
uint16_t safe on PAGE_SIZE <= 64KiB.
2. On configs with PAGE_SHIFT > 16 (PAGE_SIZE_256KB on hexagon and
powerpc 44x), push any sub-page remainder above U16_MAX into
objcg->nr_charged_bytes via atomic_add before storing back, so
the store cannot silently truncate. The PAGE_SHIFT > 16 guard
folds the branch out at compile time on smaller page sizes.
Fixes: 01b9da291c49 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg per-node type")
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org>
---
Changes since v1:
- Collected tags
- Rearrange fields of obj_stock_pcp (David Laight)
- Fix comparison operator (Harry)
mm/memcontrol.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index d7c162946719..e4f00a8159d5 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2019,8 +2019,8 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct memcg_stock_pcp, memcg_stock) = {
struct obj_stock_pcp {
local_trylock_t lock;
- unsigned int nr_bytes;
struct obj_cgroup *cached_objcg;
+ uint16_t nr_bytes;
int16_t node_id;
int nr_slab_reclaimable_b;
int nr_slab_unreclaimable_b;
@@ -3331,6 +3331,7 @@ static void __refill_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
bool allow_uncharge)
{
unsigned int nr_pages = 0;
+ unsigned int stock_nr_bytes;
if (!stock) {
nr_pages = nr_bytes >> PAGE_SHIFT;
@@ -3339,21 +3340,41 @@ static void __refill_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
goto out;
}
+ stock_nr_bytes = stock->nr_bytes;
if (READ_ONCE(stock->cached_objcg) != objcg) { /* reset if necessary */
drain_obj_stock(stock);
obj_cgroup_get(objcg);
- stock->nr_bytes = atomic_read(&objcg->nr_charged_bytes)
+ stock_nr_bytes = atomic_read(&objcg->nr_charged_bytes)
? atomic_xchg(&objcg->nr_charged_bytes, 0) : 0;
WRITE_ONCE(stock->cached_objcg, objcg);
allow_uncharge = true; /* Allow uncharge when objcg changes */
}
- stock->nr_bytes += nr_bytes;
+ stock_nr_bytes += nr_bytes;
+
+ /* Since stock->nr_bytes is uint16_t, don't refill >= U16_MAX */
+ if ((allow_uncharge && (stock_nr_bytes > PAGE_SIZE)) ||
+ stock_nr_bytes > U16_MAX) {
+ nr_pages = stock_nr_bytes >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ stock_nr_bytes &= (PAGE_SIZE - 1);
+
+ /*
+ * On configs with PAGE_SHIFT > 16 (PAGE_SIZE_256KB on
+ * hexagon and powerpc 44x), the sub-page remainder can
+ * still exceed U16_MAX. Push the excess back to
+ * objcg->nr_charged_bytes so the store into uint16_t
+ * cannot silently truncate; folded out at compile time
+ * on smaller page sizes.
+ */
+ if (PAGE_SHIFT > 16 && stock_nr_bytes > U16_MAX) {
+ unsigned int kept = stock_nr_bytes & U16_MAX;
- if (allow_uncharge && (stock->nr_bytes > PAGE_SIZE)) {
- nr_pages = stock->nr_bytes >> PAGE_SHIFT;
- stock->nr_bytes &= (PAGE_SIZE - 1);
+ atomic_add(stock_nr_bytes - kept,
+ &objcg->nr_charged_bytes);
+ stock_nr_bytes = kept;
+ }
}
+ stock->nr_bytes = stock_nr_bytes;
out:
if (nr_pages)
--
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2026-05-22 1:19 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] memcg: store node_id instead of pglist_data pointer Shakeel Butt
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@ 2026-05-22 1:19 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-05-22 2:30 ` Qi Zheng
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3 siblings, 3 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Shakeel Butt @ 2026-05-22 1:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin, Muchun Song,
Qi Zheng, Alexandre Ghiti, Joshua Hahn, Harry Yoo,
Meta kernel team, linux-mm, cgroups, linux-kernel,
kernel test robot
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.
Fixes: 01b9da291c49 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg per-node type")
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org>
---
Changes since v2:
- Collected tags
mm/memcontrol.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index e4f00a8159d5..78c02451312b 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2022,8 +2022,8 @@ struct obj_stock_pcp {
struct obj_cgroup *cached_objcg;
uint16_t nr_bytes;
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.
--
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@ 2026-05-22 1:19 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-05-22 6:33 ` Muchun Song
3 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Shakeel Butt @ 2026-05-22 1:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin, Muchun Song,
Qi Zheng, Alexandre Ghiti, Joshua Hahn, Harry Yoo,
Meta kernel team, linux-mm, cgroups, linux-kernel,
kernel test robot
Commit 01b9da291c49 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg
per-node type") split a memcg's single obj_cgroup into one per NUMA
node so that reparenting LRU folios can take per-node lru locks. As a
side effect, the per-CPU obj_stock_pcp -- which caches exactly one
cached_objcg -- thrashes on workloads where threads of the same memcg
run on different NUMA nodes. The kernel test robot reported a 67.7%
regression on stress-ng.switch.ops_per_sec from this pattern.
Mirror the multi-slot pattern already used by memcg_stock_pcp: turn
nr_bytes and cached_objcg into NR_OBJ_STOCK-element arrays, scan all
slots on consume/refill/account, prefer empty slots when inserting,
and evict a random slot only when full. With multiple slots a CPU can
hold the per-node objcg variants of one memcg plus a few siblings
without ever forcing a drain.
A single int8_t index records which slot the cached slab stats belong
to; the stats are flushed on slot or pgdat change. With NR_OBJ_STOCK
= 5 the layout (verified with pahole) is:
offset 0 : lock(1) + index(1) + node_id(2) + slab stats(4) = 8B
offset 8 : nr_bytes[5] = 10B
offset 18 : padding = 6B
offset 24 : cached[5] = 40B
offset 64 : (line 2) work_struct + flags (cold)
so consume_obj_stock, refill_obj_stock and the slab account path each
touch exactly one 64-byte cache line on non-debug 64-bit builds.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202605121641.b6a60cb0-lkp@intel.com
Fixes: 01b9da291c49 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg per-node type")
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
---
Changes since v1:
- Use round robin for drain
mm/memcontrol.c | 188 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
1 file changed, 136 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 78c02451312b..ba17633b0bd0 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -150,14 +150,14 @@ static void obj_cgroup_release(struct percpu_ref *ref)
* However, it can be PAGE_SIZE or (x * PAGE_SIZE).
*
* The following sequence can lead to it:
- * 1) CPU0: objcg == stock->cached_objcg
+ * 1) CPU0: objcg cached in one of stock->cached[i]
* 2) CPU1: we do a small allocation (e.g. 92 bytes),
* PAGE_SIZE bytes are charged
* 3) CPU1: a process from another memcg is allocating something,
* the stock if flushed,
* objcg->nr_charged_bytes = PAGE_SIZE - 92
* 5) CPU0: we do release this object,
- * 92 bytes are added to stock->nr_bytes
+ * 92 bytes are added to stock->nr_bytes[i]
* 6) CPU0: stock is flushed,
* 92 bytes are added to objcg->nr_charged_bytes
*
@@ -2017,25 +2017,40 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct memcg_stock_pcp, memcg_stock) = {
.lock = INIT_LOCAL_TRYLOCK(lock),
};
+/*
+ * NR_OBJ_STOCK is sized so the entire hot path of obj_stock_pcp
+ * (lock, accounting metadata, nr_bytes[] and cached[]) fits within a
+ * single 64-byte cache line on non-debug 64-bit builds. With 5 slots:
+ * lock(1) + index(1) + node_id(2) + slab stats(4) + nr_bytes(10)
+ * + pad(6) + cached(40) == 64 bytes.
+ * A CPU can thus consume/refill/account against five different objcgs
+ * (typically per-node variants of the same memcg) while incurring at
+ * most one cache miss on the stock.
+ */
+#define NR_OBJ_STOCK 5
struct obj_stock_pcp {
local_trylock_t lock;
- struct obj_cgroup *cached_objcg;
- uint16_t nr_bytes;
+ int8_t index;
int16_t node_id;
int16_t nr_slab_reclaimable_b;
int16_t nr_slab_unreclaimable_b;
+ uint16_t nr_bytes[NR_OBJ_STOCK];
+ struct obj_cgroup *cached[NR_OBJ_STOCK];
struct work_struct work;
unsigned long flags;
+ uint8_t drain_idx;
};
static DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct obj_stock_pcp, obj_stock) = {
.lock = INIT_LOCAL_TRYLOCK(lock),
+ .index = -1,
.node_id = NUMA_NO_NODE,
};
static DEFINE_MUTEX(percpu_charge_mutex);
+static void drain_obj_stock_slot(struct obj_stock_pcp *stock, int i);
static void drain_obj_stock(struct obj_stock_pcp *stock);
static bool obj_stock_flush_required(struct obj_stock_pcp *stock,
struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg);
@@ -3153,12 +3168,13 @@ static void unlock_stock(struct obj_stock_pcp *stock)
local_unlock(&obj_stock.lock);
}
-/* Call after __refill_obj_stock() to ensure stock->cached_objg == objcg */
+/* Call after __refill_obj_stock() so a slot for objcg exists in the stock */
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)
{
int16_t *bytes;
+ int i;
/*
* Though at the moment MAX_NUMNODES <= 1024 in all archs but let's make
@@ -3167,29 +3183,39 @@ static void __account_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
*/
BUILD_BUG_ON(MAX_NUMNODES >= S16_MAX);
- if (!stock || READ_ONCE(stock->cached_objcg) != objcg)
+ if (!stock)
+ goto direct;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < NR_OBJ_STOCK; ++i) {
+ if (READ_ONCE(stock->cached[i]) == objcg)
+ break;
+ }
+ if (i == NR_OBJ_STOCK)
goto direct;
/*
* Save vmstat data in stock and skip vmstat array update unless
- * accumulating over a page of vmstat data or when pgdat changes.
+ * accumulating over a page of vmstat data or when the objcg slot or
+ * pgdat the stats belong to changes.
*/
- if (stock->node_id == NUMA_NO_NODE) {
+ if (stock->index < 0) {
+ stock->index = i;
stock->node_id = pgdat->node_id;
- } else if (stock->node_id != pgdat->node_id) {
- /* Flush the existing cached vmstat data */
+ } else if (stock->index != i || stock->node_id != pgdat->node_id) {
+ struct obj_cgroup *old = READ_ONCE(stock->cached[stock->index]);
struct pglist_data *oldpg = NODE_DATA(stock->node_id);
if (stock->nr_slab_reclaimable_b) {
- mod_objcg_mlstate(objcg, oldpg, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B,
+ mod_objcg_mlstate(old, oldpg, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B,
stock->nr_slab_reclaimable_b);
stock->nr_slab_reclaimable_b = 0;
}
if (stock->nr_slab_unreclaimable_b) {
- mod_objcg_mlstate(objcg, oldpg, NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B,
+ mod_objcg_mlstate(old, oldpg, NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B,
stock->nr_slab_unreclaimable_b);
stock->nr_slab_unreclaimable_b = 0;
}
+ stock->index = i;
stock->node_id = pgdat->node_id;
}
@@ -3230,10 +3256,16 @@ static bool __consume_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
struct obj_stock_pcp *stock,
unsigned int nr_bytes)
{
- if (objcg == READ_ONCE(stock->cached_objcg) &&
- stock->nr_bytes >= nr_bytes) {
- stock->nr_bytes -= nr_bytes;
- return true;
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < NR_OBJ_STOCK; ++i) {
+ if (READ_ONCE(stock->cached[i]) != objcg)
+ continue;
+ if (stock->nr_bytes[i] >= nr_bytes) {
+ stock->nr_bytes[i] -= nr_bytes;
+ return true;
+ }
+ return false;
}
return false;
@@ -3254,16 +3286,42 @@ static bool consume_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg, unsigned int nr_bytes)
return ret;
}
-static void drain_obj_stock(struct obj_stock_pcp *stock)
+/* Flush the cached slab stats (if any) back to their owning objcg/pgdat. */
+static void drain_obj_stock_stats(struct obj_stock_pcp *stock)
{
- struct obj_cgroup *old = READ_ONCE(stock->cached_objcg);
+ struct obj_cgroup *old;
+ struct pglist_data *oldpg;
+
+ if (stock->index < 0)
+ return;
+
+ old = READ_ONCE(stock->cached[stock->index]);
+ oldpg = NODE_DATA(stock->node_id);
+
+ if (stock->nr_slab_reclaimable_b) {
+ mod_objcg_mlstate(old, oldpg, NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B,
+ stock->nr_slab_reclaimable_b);
+ stock->nr_slab_reclaimable_b = 0;
+ }
+ if (stock->nr_slab_unreclaimable_b) {
+ mod_objcg_mlstate(old, oldpg, NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B,
+ stock->nr_slab_unreclaimable_b);
+ stock->nr_slab_unreclaimable_b = 0;
+ }
+ stock->index = -1;
+ stock->node_id = NUMA_NO_NODE;
+}
+
+static void drain_obj_stock_slot(struct obj_stock_pcp *stock, int i)
+{
+ struct obj_cgroup *old = READ_ONCE(stock->cached[i]);
if (!old)
return;
- if (stock->nr_bytes) {
- unsigned int nr_pages = stock->nr_bytes >> PAGE_SHIFT;
- unsigned int nr_bytes = stock->nr_bytes & (PAGE_SIZE - 1);
+ if (stock->nr_bytes[i]) {
+ unsigned int nr_pages = stock->nr_bytes[i] >> PAGE_SHIFT;
+ unsigned int nr_bytes = stock->nr_bytes[i] & (PAGE_SIZE - 1);
if (nr_pages) {
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
@@ -3289,46 +3347,43 @@ static void drain_obj_stock(struct obj_stock_pcp *stock)
* so it might be changed in the future.
*/
atomic_add(nr_bytes, &old->nr_charged_bytes);
- stock->nr_bytes = 0;
+ stock->nr_bytes[i] = 0;
}
- /*
- * Flush the vmstat data in current stock
- */
- if (stock->nr_slab_reclaimable_b || stock->nr_slab_unreclaimable_b) {
- struct pglist_data *oldpg = NODE_DATA(stock->node_id);
-
- if (stock->nr_slab_reclaimable_b) {
- mod_objcg_mlstate(old, oldpg,
- NR_SLAB_RECLAIMABLE_B,
- stock->nr_slab_reclaimable_b);
- stock->nr_slab_reclaimable_b = 0;
- }
- if (stock->nr_slab_unreclaimable_b) {
- mod_objcg_mlstate(old, oldpg,
- NR_SLAB_UNRECLAIMABLE_B,
- stock->nr_slab_unreclaimable_b);
- stock->nr_slab_unreclaimable_b = 0;
- }
- stock->node_id = NUMA_NO_NODE;
- }
+ /* Flush vmstat data when its owning slot is being drained. */
+ if (stock->index == i)
+ drain_obj_stock_stats(stock);
- WRITE_ONCE(stock->cached_objcg, NULL);
+ WRITE_ONCE(stock->cached[i], NULL);
obj_cgroup_put(old);
}
+static void drain_obj_stock(struct obj_stock_pcp *stock)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < NR_OBJ_STOCK; ++i)
+ drain_obj_stock_slot(stock, i);
+}
+
static bool obj_stock_flush_required(struct obj_stock_pcp *stock,
struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg)
{
- struct obj_cgroup *objcg = READ_ONCE(stock->cached_objcg);
+ struct obj_cgroup *objcg;
struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
bool flush = false;
+ int i;
rcu_read_lock();
- if (objcg) {
+ for (i = 0; i < NR_OBJ_STOCK; ++i) {
+ objcg = READ_ONCE(stock->cached[i]);
+ if (!objcg)
+ continue;
memcg = obj_cgroup_memcg(objcg);
- if (memcg && mem_cgroup_is_descendant(memcg, root_memcg))
+ if (memcg && mem_cgroup_is_descendant(memcg, root_memcg)) {
flush = true;
+ break;
+ }
}
rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -3342,6 +3397,7 @@ static void __refill_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
{
unsigned int nr_pages = 0;
unsigned int stock_nr_bytes;
+ int i, slot = -1, empty_slot = -1;
if (!stock) {
nr_pages = nr_bytes >> PAGE_SHIFT;
@@ -3350,19 +3406,47 @@ static void __refill_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
goto out;
}
- stock_nr_bytes = stock->nr_bytes;
- if (READ_ONCE(stock->cached_objcg) != objcg) { /* reset if necessary */
- drain_obj_stock(stock);
+ for (i = 0; i < NR_OBJ_STOCK; ++i) {
+ struct obj_cgroup *cached = READ_ONCE(stock->cached[i]);
+
+ if (!cached) {
+ if (empty_slot == -1)
+ empty_slot = i;
+ continue;
+ }
+ if (cached == objcg) {
+ slot = i;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+
+ if (slot == -1) {
+ slot = empty_slot;
+ if (slot == -1) {
+ slot = stock->drain_idx++;
+ if (stock->drain_idx == NR_OBJ_STOCK)
+ stock->drain_idx = 0;
+ drain_obj_stock_slot(stock, slot);
+ }
obj_cgroup_get(objcg);
+ /*
+ * Keep the xchg result in the unsigned int local; storing
+ * it directly into stock->nr_bytes[slot] (uint16_t) would
+ * silently truncate values >= U16_MAX and bypass the flush
+ * guard below, leaking page-counter charges.
+ */
stock_nr_bytes = atomic_read(&objcg->nr_charged_bytes)
? atomic_xchg(&objcg->nr_charged_bytes, 0) : 0;
- WRITE_ONCE(stock->cached_objcg, objcg);
+ WRITE_ONCE(stock->cached[slot], objcg);
allow_uncharge = true; /* Allow uncharge when objcg changes */
+ } else {
+ stock_nr_bytes = stock->nr_bytes[slot];
}
+
stock_nr_bytes += nr_bytes;
- /* Since stock->nr_bytes is uint16_t, don't refill >= U16_MAX */
+ /* nr_bytes[] is uint16_t; flush if we would refill >= U16_MAX. */
if ((allow_uncharge && (stock_nr_bytes > PAGE_SIZE)) ||
stock_nr_bytes > U16_MAX) {
nr_pages = stock_nr_bytes >> PAGE_SHIFT;
@@ -3384,7 +3468,7 @@ static void __refill_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
stock_nr_bytes = kept;
}
}
- stock->nr_bytes = stock_nr_bytes;
+ stock->nr_bytes[slot] = stock_nr_bytes;
out:
if (nr_pages)
--
2.53.0-Meta
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* Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] memcg: uint16_t for nr_bytes in obj_stock_pcp
2026-05-22 1:19 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] memcg: uint16_t for nr_bytes in obj_stock_pcp Shakeel Butt
@ 2026-05-22 2:23 ` Qi Zheng
2026-05-22 16:30 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-05-22 6:27 ` Muchun Song
1 sibling, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Qi Zheng @ 2026-05-22 2:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Shakeel Butt, Andrew Morton
Cc: Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin, Muchun Song,
Alexandre Ghiti, Joshua Hahn, Harry Yoo, Meta kernel team,
linux-mm, cgroups, linux-kernel, kernel test robot
On 5/22/26 9:19 AM, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> Currently struct obj_stock_pcp stores nr_bytes in an 'unsigned int'
> which is 4 bytes on 64-bit machines. Switch the field to uint16_t to
> shrink the per-CPU cache.
>
> The kernel supports PAGE_SIZE_4KB, _8KB, _16KB, _32KB, _64KB and
> _256KB (see HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_* in arch/Kconfig). After the
> PAGE_SIZE-aligned flush in __refill_obj_stock(), the sub-page
> remainder fits in uint16_t up through 64KiB pages where PAGE_SIZE - 1
> == U16_MAX, but on 256KiB pages PAGE_SIZE - 1 == 0x3FFFF exceeds
> U16_MAX. The accumulator also needs to stay within uint16_t between
> page-aligned flushes on 64KiB pages where PAGE_SIZE itself is
> U16_MAX + 1.
>
> Accumulate the new total in an 'unsigned int' local, then:
>
> 1. Flush whenever the accumulator would hit U16_MAX. Together with
> the existing allow_uncharge flush at PAGE_SIZE, this keeps the
> uint16_t safe on PAGE_SIZE <= 64KiB.
>
> 2. On configs with PAGE_SHIFT > 16 (PAGE_SIZE_256KB on hexagon and
> powerpc 44x), push any sub-page remainder above U16_MAX into
> objcg->nr_charged_bytes via atomic_add before storing back, so
> the store cannot silently truncate. The PAGE_SHIFT > 16 guard
> folds the branch out at compile time on smaller page sizes.
>
> Fixes: 01b9da291c49 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg per-node type")
> Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
> Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org>
> ---
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Collected tags
> - Rearrange fields of obj_stock_pcp (David Laight)
> - Fix comparison operator (Harry)
>
> mm/memcontrol.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index d7c162946719..e4f00a8159d5 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -2019,8 +2019,8 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct memcg_stock_pcp, memcg_stock) = {
>
> struct obj_stock_pcp {
> local_trylock_t lock;
> - unsigned int nr_bytes;
> struct obj_cgroup *cached_objcg;
> + uint16_t nr_bytes;
> int16_t node_id;
> int nr_slab_reclaimable_b;
> int nr_slab_unreclaimable_b;
> @@ -3331,6 +3331,7 @@ static void __refill_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
> bool allow_uncharge)
> {
> unsigned int nr_pages = 0;
> + unsigned int stock_nr_bytes;
>
> if (!stock) {
> nr_pages = nr_bytes >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> @@ -3339,21 +3340,41 @@ static void __refill_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
> goto out;
> }
>
> + stock_nr_bytes = stock->nr_bytes;
> if (READ_ONCE(stock->cached_objcg) != objcg) { /* reset if necessary */
> drain_obj_stock(stock);
> obj_cgroup_get(objcg);
> - stock->nr_bytes = atomic_read(&objcg->nr_charged_bytes)
> + stock_nr_bytes = atomic_read(&objcg->nr_charged_bytes)
> ? atomic_xchg(&objcg->nr_charged_bytes, 0) : 0;
> WRITE_ONCE(stock->cached_objcg, objcg);
>
> allow_uncharge = true; /* Allow uncharge when objcg changes */
> }
> - stock->nr_bytes += nr_bytes;
> + stock_nr_bytes += nr_bytes;
> +
> + /* Since stock->nr_bytes is uint16_t, don't refill >= U16_MAX */
^
should also be changed to: don't refill > U16_MAX ?
Otherwise:
Acked-by: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
Thanks!
> + if ((allow_uncharge && (stock_nr_bytes > PAGE_SIZE)) ||
> + stock_nr_bytes > U16_MAX) {
> + nr_pages = stock_nr_bytes >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> + stock_nr_bytes &= (PAGE_SIZE - 1);
> +
> + /*
> + * On configs with PAGE_SHIFT > 16 (PAGE_SIZE_256KB on
> + * hexagon and powerpc 44x), the sub-page remainder can
> + * still exceed U16_MAX. Push the excess back to
> + * objcg->nr_charged_bytes so the store into uint16_t
> + * cannot silently truncate; folded out at compile time
> + * on smaller page sizes.
> + */
> + if (PAGE_SHIFT > 16 && stock_nr_bytes > U16_MAX) {
> + unsigned int kept = stock_nr_bytes & U16_MAX;
>
> - if (allow_uncharge && (stock->nr_bytes > PAGE_SIZE)) {
> - nr_pages = stock->nr_bytes >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> - stock->nr_bytes &= (PAGE_SIZE - 1);
> + atomic_add(stock_nr_bytes - kept,
> + &objcg->nr_charged_bytes);
> + stock_nr_bytes = kept;
> + }
> }
> + stock->nr_bytes = stock_nr_bytes;
>
> out:
> if (nr_pages)
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 14+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] memcg: store node_id instead of pglist_data pointer
2026-05-22 1:19 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] memcg: store node_id instead of pglist_data pointer Shakeel Butt
@ 2026-05-22 2:27 ` Qi Zheng
0 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Qi Zheng @ 2026-05-22 2:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Shakeel Butt, Andrew Morton
Cc: Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin, Muchun Song,
Alexandre Ghiti, Joshua Hahn, Harry Yoo, Meta kernel team,
linux-mm, cgroups, linux-kernel, kernel test robot
On 5/22/26 9:19 AM, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> The struct obj_stock_pcp stores a pointer to pglist_data for the slab
> stats cached on the cpu. On 64-bit machines, this costs 8 bytes. The
> pointer is not strictly required: NODE_DATA() can recover it from the
> node id. Replace cached_pgdat with int16_t node_id and use NUMA_NO_NODE
> as the "no stats cached" sentinel.
>
> At the moment all the archs limit MAX_NUMNODES to 1024 so int16_t is
> plenty; a BUILD_BUG_ON() makes sure we notice if that ever changes.
>
> Fixes: 01b9da291c49 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg per-node type")
> Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
> Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
> Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org>
> ---
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Added tags in the commit message
>
> mm/memcontrol.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++-------
> 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
Acked-by: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
Thanks!
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 14+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] memcg: int16_t for cached slab stats
2026-05-22 1:19 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] memcg: int16_t for cached slab stats Shakeel Butt
@ 2026-05-22 2:30 ` Qi Zheng
2026-05-22 6:27 ` Muchun Song
2026-05-22 7:50 ` David Laight
2 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Qi Zheng @ 2026-05-22 2:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Shakeel Butt, Andrew Morton
Cc: Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin, Muchun Song,
Alexandre Ghiti, Joshua Hahn, Harry Yoo, Meta kernel team,
linux-mm, cgroups, linux-kernel, kernel test robot
On 5/22/26 9:19 AM, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> 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.
>
> Fixes: 01b9da291c49 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg per-node type")
> Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
> Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org>
> ---
>
> Changes since v2:
> - Collected tags
>
> mm/memcontrol.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
Acked-by: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
Thanks!
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 14+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] memcg: int16_t for cached slab stats
2026-05-22 1:19 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] memcg: int16_t for cached slab stats Shakeel Butt
2026-05-22 2:30 ` Qi Zheng
@ 2026-05-22 6:27 ` Muchun Song
2026-05-22 7:50 ` David Laight
2 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Muchun Song @ 2026-05-22 6:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Shakeel Butt
Cc: Andrew Morton, Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin,
Qi Zheng, Alexandre Ghiti, Joshua Hahn, Harry Yoo,
Meta kernel team, linux-mm, cgroups, linux-kernel,
kernel test robot
> On May 22, 2026, at 09:19, Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> Fixes: 01b9da291c49 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg per-node type")
> Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
> Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Thanks.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 14+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] memcg: uint16_t for nr_bytes in obj_stock_pcp
2026-05-22 1:19 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] memcg: uint16_t for nr_bytes in obj_stock_pcp Shakeel Butt
2026-05-22 2:23 ` Qi Zheng
@ 2026-05-22 6:27 ` Muchun Song
1 sibling, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Muchun Song @ 2026-05-22 6:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Shakeel Butt
Cc: Andrew Morton, Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin,
Qi Zheng, Alexandre Ghiti, Joshua Hahn, Harry Yoo,
Meta kernel team, linux-mm, cgroups, linux-kernel,
kernel test robot
> On May 22, 2026, at 09:19, Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> wrote:
>
> Currently struct obj_stock_pcp stores nr_bytes in an 'unsigned int'
> which is 4 bytes on 64-bit machines. Switch the field to uint16_t to
> shrink the per-CPU cache.
>
> The kernel supports PAGE_SIZE_4KB, _8KB, _16KB, _32KB, _64KB and
> _256KB (see HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_* in arch/Kconfig). After the
> PAGE_SIZE-aligned flush in __refill_obj_stock(), the sub-page
> remainder fits in uint16_t up through 64KiB pages where PAGE_SIZE - 1
> == U16_MAX, but on 256KiB pages PAGE_SIZE - 1 == 0x3FFFF exceeds
> U16_MAX. The accumulator also needs to stay within uint16_t between
> page-aligned flushes on 64KiB pages where PAGE_SIZE itself is
> U16_MAX + 1.
>
> Accumulate the new total in an 'unsigned int' local, then:
>
> 1. Flush whenever the accumulator would hit U16_MAX. Together with
> the existing allow_uncharge flush at PAGE_SIZE, this keeps the
> uint16_t safe on PAGE_SIZE <= 64KiB.
>
> 2. On configs with PAGE_SHIFT > 16 (PAGE_SIZE_256KB on hexagon and
> powerpc 44x), push any sub-page remainder above U16_MAX into
> objcg->nr_charged_bytes via atomic_add before storing back, so
> the store cannot silently truncate. The PAGE_SHIFT > 16 guard
> folds the branch out at compile time on smaller page sizes.
>
> Fixes: 01b9da291c49 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg per-node type")
> Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
> Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Thanks.
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 14+ messages in thread
* Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] memcg: multi objcg charge support
2026-05-22 1:19 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] memcg: multi objcg charge support Shakeel Butt
@ 2026-05-22 6:33 ` Muchun Song
2026-05-22 16:37 ` Shakeel Butt
0 siblings, 1 reply; 14+ messages in thread
From: Muchun Song @ 2026-05-22 6:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Shakeel Butt
Cc: Andrew Morton, Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin,
Qi Zheng, Alexandre Ghiti, Joshua Hahn, Harry Yoo,
Meta kernel team, linux-mm, cgroups, linux-kernel,
kernel test robot
> On May 22, 2026, at 09:19, Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> wrote:
>
> Commit 01b9da291c49 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg
> per-node type") split a memcg's single obj_cgroup into one per NUMA
> node so that reparenting LRU folios can take per-node lru locks. As a
> side effect, the per-CPU obj_stock_pcp -- which caches exactly one
> cached_objcg -- thrashes on workloads where threads of the same memcg
> run on different NUMA nodes. The kernel test robot reported a 67.7%
> regression on stress-ng.switch.ops_per_sec from this pattern.
>
> Mirror the multi-slot pattern already used by memcg_stock_pcp: turn
> nr_bytes and cached_objcg into NR_OBJ_STOCK-element arrays, scan all
> slots on consume/refill/account, prefer empty slots when inserting,
> and evict a random slot only when full. With multiple slots a CPU can
> hold the per-node objcg variants of one memcg plus a few siblings
> without ever forcing a drain.
>
> A single int8_t index records which slot the cached slab stats belong
> to; the stats are flushed on slot or pgdat change. With NR_OBJ_STOCK
> = 5 the layout (verified with pahole) is:
>
> offset 0 : lock(1) + index(1) + node_id(2) + slab stats(4) = 8B
> offset 8 : nr_bytes[5] = 10B
> offset 18 : padding = 6B
> offset 24 : cached[5] = 40B
> offset 64 : (line 2) work_struct + flags (cold)
>
> so consume_obj_stock, refill_obj_stock and the slab account path each
> touch exactly one 64-byte cache line on non-debug 64-bit builds.
>
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202605121641.b6a60cb0-lkp@intel.com
> Fixes: 01b9da291c49 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg per-node type")
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
> Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
> ---
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Use round robin for drain
>
> mm/memcontrol.c | 188 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> 1 file changed, 136 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 78c02451312b..ba17633b0bd0 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -150,14 +150,14 @@ static void obj_cgroup_release(struct percpu_ref *ref)
> * However, it can be PAGE_SIZE or (x * PAGE_SIZE).
> *
> * The following sequence can lead to it:
> - * 1) CPU0: objcg == stock->cached_objcg
> + * 1) CPU0: objcg cached in one of stock->cached[i]
> * 2) CPU1: we do a small allocation (e.g. 92 bytes),
> * PAGE_SIZE bytes are charged
> * 3) CPU1: a process from another memcg is allocating something,
> * the stock if flushed,
> * objcg->nr_charged_bytes = PAGE_SIZE - 92
> * 5) CPU0: we do release this object,
^
4
Since you're already modifying the comments in this section,
would you mind fixing the numbering as well? I noticed that the
sequence was wrong a while back :)
> - * 92 bytes are added to stock->nr_bytes
> + * 92 bytes are added to stock->nr_bytes[i]
> * 6) CPU0: stock is flushed,
^
5
Thanks,
Muchun
> * 92 bytes are added to objcg->nr_charged_bytes
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* Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] memcg: int16_t for cached slab stats
2026-05-22 1:19 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] memcg: int16_t for cached slab stats Shakeel Butt
2026-05-22 2:30 ` Qi Zheng
2026-05-22 6:27 ` Muchun Song
@ 2026-05-22 7:50 ` David Laight
2 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: David Laight @ 2026-05-22 7:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Shakeel Butt
Cc: Andrew Morton, Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin,
Muchun Song, Qi Zheng, Alexandre Ghiti, Joshua Hahn, Harry Yoo,
Meta kernel team, linux-mm, cgroups, linux-kernel,
kernel test robot
On Thu, 21 May 2026 18:19:07 -0700
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Fixes: 01b9da291c49 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg per-node type")
> Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
> Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org>
> ---
>
> Changes since v2:
> - Collected tags
>
> mm/memcontrol.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index e4f00a8159d5..78c02451312b 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -2022,8 +2022,8 @@ struct obj_stock_pcp {
> struct obj_cgroup *cached_objcg;
> uint16_t nr_bytes;
> 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;
> + }
> +
I think you should do the add first:
nr += *bytes;
if (abs(nr) < S16_MAX && (!*bytes || abs(nr) < PAGE_SIZE)) {
*bytes = nr;
} else {
*bytes = 0;
mod_objcg_mlstate(objcg, pgdat, idx, nr);
}
-- David
> /*
> * Even for large object >= PAGE_SIZE, the vmstat data will still be
> * cached locally at least once before pushing it out.
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* Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] memcg: uint16_t for nr_bytes in obj_stock_pcp
2026-05-22 2:23 ` Qi Zheng
@ 2026-05-22 16:30 ` Shakeel Butt
0 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Shakeel Butt @ 2026-05-22 16:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Qi Zheng
Cc: Andrew Morton, Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin,
Muchun Song, Alexandre Ghiti, Joshua Hahn, Harry Yoo,
Meta kernel team, linux-mm, cgroups, linux-kernel,
kernel test robot
On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 10:23:31AM +0800, Qi Zheng wrote:
>
>
> On 5/22/26 9:19 AM, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> > Currently struct obj_stock_pcp stores nr_bytes in an 'unsigned int'
> > which is 4 bytes on 64-bit machines. Switch the field to uint16_t to
> > shrink the per-CPU cache.
> >
> > The kernel supports PAGE_SIZE_4KB, _8KB, _16KB, _32KB, _64KB and
> > _256KB (see HAVE_PAGE_SIZE_* in arch/Kconfig). After the
> > PAGE_SIZE-aligned flush in __refill_obj_stock(), the sub-page
> > remainder fits in uint16_t up through 64KiB pages where PAGE_SIZE - 1
> > == U16_MAX, but on 256KiB pages PAGE_SIZE - 1 == 0x3FFFF exceeds
> > U16_MAX. The accumulator also needs to stay within uint16_t between
> > page-aligned flushes on 64KiB pages where PAGE_SIZE itself is
> > U16_MAX + 1.
> >
> > Accumulate the new total in an 'unsigned int' local, then:
> >
> > 1. Flush whenever the accumulator would hit U16_MAX. Together with
> > the existing allow_uncharge flush at PAGE_SIZE, this keeps the
> > uint16_t safe on PAGE_SIZE <= 64KiB.
> >
> > 2. On configs with PAGE_SHIFT > 16 (PAGE_SIZE_256KB on hexagon and
> > powerpc 44x), push any sub-page remainder above U16_MAX into
> > objcg->nr_charged_bytes via atomic_add before storing back, so
> > the store cannot silently truncate. The PAGE_SHIFT > 16 guard
> > folds the branch out at compile time on smaller page sizes.
> >
> > Fixes: 01b9da291c49 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg per-node type")
> > Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
> > Reviewed-by: Harry Yoo (Oracle) <harry@kernel.org>
> > ---
> >
> > Changes since v1:
> > - Collected tags
> > - Rearrange fields of obj_stock_pcp (David Laight)
> > - Fix comparison operator (Harry)
> >
> > mm/memcontrol.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
> > 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > index d7c162946719..e4f00a8159d5 100644
> > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > @@ -2019,8 +2019,8 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct memcg_stock_pcp, memcg_stock) = {
> > struct obj_stock_pcp {
> > local_trylock_t lock;
> > - unsigned int nr_bytes;
> > struct obj_cgroup *cached_objcg;
> > + uint16_t nr_bytes;
> > int16_t node_id;
> > int nr_slab_reclaimable_b;
> > int nr_slab_unreclaimable_b;
> > @@ -3331,6 +3331,7 @@ static void __refill_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
> > bool allow_uncharge)
> > {
> > unsigned int nr_pages = 0;
> > + unsigned int stock_nr_bytes;
> > if (!stock) {
> > nr_pages = nr_bytes >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> > @@ -3339,21 +3340,41 @@ static void __refill_obj_stock(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
> > goto out;
> > }
> > + stock_nr_bytes = stock->nr_bytes;
> > if (READ_ONCE(stock->cached_objcg) != objcg) { /* reset if necessary */
> > drain_obj_stock(stock);
> > obj_cgroup_get(objcg);
> > - stock->nr_bytes = atomic_read(&objcg->nr_charged_bytes)
> > + stock_nr_bytes = atomic_read(&objcg->nr_charged_bytes)
> > ? atomic_xchg(&objcg->nr_charged_bytes, 0) : 0;
> > WRITE_ONCE(stock->cached_objcg, objcg);
> > allow_uncharge = true; /* Allow uncharge when objcg changes */
> > }
> > - stock->nr_bytes += nr_bytes;
> > + stock_nr_bytes += nr_bytes;
> > +
> > + /* Since stock->nr_bytes is uint16_t, don't refill >= U16_MAX */
>
> ^
>
> should also be changed to: don't refill > U16_MAX ?
>
> Otherwise:
>
> Acked-by: Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>
Thanks. If I send a new version, I will fix this otherwise I will ask Andrew to
fix this inplace.
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* Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] memcg: multi objcg charge support
2026-05-22 6:33 ` Muchun Song
@ 2026-05-22 16:37 ` Shakeel Butt
0 siblings, 0 replies; 14+ messages in thread
From: Shakeel Butt @ 2026-05-22 16:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Muchun Song
Cc: Andrew Morton, Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin,
Qi Zheng, Alexandre Ghiti, Joshua Hahn, Harry Yoo,
Meta kernel team, linux-mm, cgroups, linux-kernel,
kernel test robot
On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 02:33:36PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote:
>
>
> > On May 22, 2026, at 09:19, Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> wrote:
> >
> > Commit 01b9da291c49 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg
> > per-node type") split a memcg's single obj_cgroup into one per NUMA
> > node so that reparenting LRU folios can take per-node lru locks. As a
> > side effect, the per-CPU obj_stock_pcp -- which caches exactly one
> > cached_objcg -- thrashes on workloads where threads of the same memcg
> > run on different NUMA nodes. The kernel test robot reported a 67.7%
> > regression on stress-ng.switch.ops_per_sec from this pattern.
> >
> > Mirror the multi-slot pattern already used by memcg_stock_pcp: turn
> > nr_bytes and cached_objcg into NR_OBJ_STOCK-element arrays, scan all
> > slots on consume/refill/account, prefer empty slots when inserting,
> > and evict a random slot only when full. With multiple slots a CPU can
> > hold the per-node objcg variants of one memcg plus a few siblings
> > without ever forcing a drain.
> >
> > A single int8_t index records which slot the cached slab stats belong
> > to; the stats are flushed on slot or pgdat change. With NR_OBJ_STOCK
> > = 5 the layout (verified with pahole) is:
> >
> > offset 0 : lock(1) + index(1) + node_id(2) + slab stats(4) = 8B
> > offset 8 : nr_bytes[5] = 10B
> > offset 18 : padding = 6B
> > offset 24 : cached[5] = 40B
> > offset 64 : (line 2) work_struct + flags (cold)
> >
> > so consume_obj_stock, refill_obj_stock and the slab account path each
> > touch exactly one 64-byte cache line on non-debug 64-bit builds.
> >
> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
> > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202605121641.b6a60cb0-lkp@intel.com
> > Fixes: 01b9da291c49 ("mm: memcontrol: convert objcg to be per-memcg per-node type")
> > Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
> > Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
> > ---
> >
> > Changes since v1:
> > - Use round robin for drain
> >
> > mm/memcontrol.c | 188 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
> > 1 file changed, 136 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > index 78c02451312b..ba17633b0bd0 100644
> > --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> > +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> > @@ -150,14 +150,14 @@ static void obj_cgroup_release(struct percpu_ref *ref)
> > * However, it can be PAGE_SIZE or (x * PAGE_SIZE).
> > *
> > * The following sequence can lead to it:
> > - * 1) CPU0: objcg == stock->cached_objcg
> > + * 1) CPU0: objcg cached in one of stock->cached[i]
> > * 2) CPU1: we do a small allocation (e.g. 92 bytes),
> > * PAGE_SIZE bytes are charged
> > * 3) CPU1: a process from another memcg is allocating something,
> > * the stock if flushed,
> > * objcg->nr_charged_bytes = PAGE_SIZE - 92
> > * 5) CPU0: we do release this object,
> ^
> 4
>
> Since you're already modifying the comments in this section,
> would you mind fixing the numbering as well? I noticed that the
> sequence was wrong a while back :)
Haha I didn't even notice. If I send a new version, I will fix this otherwise I
will ask Andrew to fix inplace.
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