* [GIT PULL] cgroup: Fixes for v7.1-rc4
From: Tejun Heo @ 2026-05-22 16:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Johannes Weiner, Michal Koutný, Waiman Long, cgroups,
linux-kernel
Hello, Linus.
The following changes since commit 345f40166694e60db6d5cf02233814bb27ac5dec:
cgroup/cpuset: Return only actually allocated CPUs during partition invalidation (2026-05-13 08:54:53 -1000)
are available in the Git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup.git tags/cgroup-for-7.1-rc4-fixes
for you to fetch changes up to 22572dbcd3486e6c4dced877125bbf50e4e24edf:
cgroup: rstat: relax NMI guard after switch to try_cmpxchg (2026-05-20 09:44:35 -1000)
----------------------------------------------------------------
cgroup: Fixes for v7.1-rc4
Two rstat fixes:
- Out-of-bounds access in the css_rstat_updated() BPF kfunc when called
with an unchecked user-supplied cpu.
- Over-strict NMI guard after the recent switch to try_cmpxchg left
sparc and ppc64 unable to queue rstat updates from NMI.
----------------------------------------------------------------
Cunlong Li (1):
cgroup: rstat: relax NMI guard after switch to try_cmpxchg
Qing Ming (1):
cgroup/rstat: validate cpu before css_rstat_cpu() access
block/blk-cgroup.c | 2 +-
include/linux/cgroup.h | 1 +
kernel/cgroup/rstat.c | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
mm/memcontrol.c | 6 +++---
4 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
Thanks.
--
tejun
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* Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] memcg: multi objcg charge support
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
In-Reply-To: <9D6F8C2F-F3E7-4326-A4F6-D5B1433A6C55@linux.dev>
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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* Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] memcg: uint16_t for nr_bytes in obj_stock_pcp
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
In-Reply-To: <3eaa3522-b41f-4e69-a260-ebfd94fad722@linux.dev>
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] selftests/cgroup: enable memory controller in hugetlb memcg test
From: Tejun Heo @ 2026-05-22 16:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Guopeng Zhang
Cc: Shuah Khan, Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin,
Shakeel Butt, Muchun Song, Oscar Salvador, David Hildenbrand,
Michal Koutný, cgroups, linux-mm, linux-kselftest,
linux-kernel
In-Reply-To: <20260520093130.490020-1-zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn>
Hello,
Applied to cgroup/for-7.2.
Thanks.
--
tejun
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* Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] cgroup/dmem: add dmem.memcg control file for double-charging to memcg
From: Tejun Heo @ 2026-05-22 16:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Michal Koutný
Cc: Eric Chanudet, Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin,
Shakeel Butt, Muchun Song, Andrew Morton, Maarten Lankhorst,
Maxime Ripard, Natalie Vock, Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, cgroups,
linux-mm, linux-kernel, dri-devel, T.J. Mercier,
Christian König, Maxime Ripard, Albert Esteve, Dave Airlie,
linux-doc
In-Reply-To: <ahBxB5a9sX9DEWvl@localhost.localdomain>
Hello,
On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 05:26:16PM +0200, Michal Koutný wrote:
> Hello Eric.
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 11:59:02AM -0400, Eric Chanudet <echanude@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Add a root-only cgroupfs file "dmem.memcg" that lets an administrator
> > configure whether allocations in a dmem region should also be charged to
> > the memory controller.
>
> This kinda makes sense as it is not unlike io.cost.* device
> configurators.
>
> Just for my better understanding -- will there be a space for userspace
> to switch this? (No charged dmem allocations happen before responsible
> userspace runs, so that the attribute remains unlocked.)
>
> (I'm rather indifferent about the actual double charging/non-charging
> matter.)
I wonder whether this would make more sense as a mount flag? What's the use
case for e.g. having different config for different devices? Wouldn't that
be really confusing?
Thanks.
--
tejun
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* Re: [PATCH v3] memcg: cache obj_stock by memcg, not by objcg pointer
From: Shakeel Butt @ 2026-05-22 16:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: Harry Yoo, Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin,
Muchun Song, Qi Zheng, Alexandre Ghiti, Joshua Hahn,
Meta kernel team, linux-mm, cgroups, linux-kernel,
kernel test robot
In-Reply-To: <20260519134927.ee04379d07b0674872422c06@linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 01:49:27PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 19 May 2026 13:11:13 -0700 Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev> wrote:
>
> > Andrew, please don't send this patch to Linus until we decide on the option.
>
> No probs, I added a note-to-self.
Here is my suggestion on how to proceed.
1. Let's drop this patch (memcg: cache obj_stock by memcg, not by objcg pointer)
from mm-tree.
2. Let's not add anything to 7.1.
3. 7.2+ will have the multi-objcg series [1] and the patches will have fixes
tag. If someone uses non-LTS 7.1, they can easily find those patches and can
backport them.
Please let me know if there are any concerns.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/20260522011908.1669332-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev/
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* Re: [RFC PATCH] cgroup/rstat: convert rstat lock from spinlock to rwlock
From: Michal Koutný @ 2026-05-22 16:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thomas Falcon; +Cc: Tejun Heo, Johannes Weiner, cgroups, linux-kernel
In-Reply-To: <20260519173134.1486365-1-thomas.falcon@intel.com>
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Hi Thomas.
On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 12:31:34PM -0500, Thomas Falcon <thomas.falcon@intel.com> wrote:
> @@ -414,7 +427,7 @@ __bpf_kfunc void css_rstat_flush(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
> struct cgroup_subsys_state *pos;
>
> /* Reacquire for each CPU to avoid disabling IRQs too long */
> - __css_rstat_lock(css, cpu);
> + __css_rstat_lock(css, cpu, true);
> pos = css_rstat_updated_list(css, cpu);
> for (; pos; pos = pos->rstat_flush_next) {
> if (is_self) {
> @@ -424,7 +437,7 @@ __bpf_kfunc void css_rstat_flush(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
> } else
> pos->ss->css_rstat_flush(pos, cpu);
> }
> - __css_rstat_unlock(css, cpu);
> + __css_rstat_unlock(css, cpu, true);
> if (!cond_resched())
> cpu_relax();
> }
> @@ -717,11 +730,11 @@ void cgroup_base_stat_cputime_show(struct seq_file *seq)
>
> if (cgroup_parent(cgrp)) {
> css_rstat_flush(&cgrp->self);
> - __css_rstat_lock(&cgrp->self, -1);
> + __css_rstat_lock(&cgrp->self, -1, false);
> bstat = cgrp->bstat;
> cputime_adjust(&cgrp->bstat.cputime, &cgrp->prev_cputime,
> &bstat.cputime.utime, &bstat.cputime.stime);
> - __css_rstat_unlock(&cgrp->self, -1);
> + __css_rstat_unlock(&cgrp->self, -1, false);
I was wondering where these distinctions of readers vs writers stem from
and here I see that it's mainly the per-subsys vs rstat_base_lock.
Given that cputime_adjust() is here only modifying the local bstat
value, the read-like lock makes sense.
However, there's still the cgroup's flush right above which would take
the per-subsys locks in write-mode anyway.
Can you add some more explanation why this works?
More generally, I'm wondering where are the opportunities for replacing
per-subsys lock with an RW lock (or seqcount).
Thanks for looking into cpu.stat scalability,
Michal
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* Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm/memcontrol: add dmem charge/uncharge functions
From: Shakeel Butt @ 2026-05-22 15:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Chanudet
Cc: Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin, Muchun Song,
Andrew Morton, Maarten Lankhorst, Maxime Ripard, Natalie Vock,
Tejun Heo, Michal Koutný, Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan,
cgroups, linux-mm, linux-kernel, dri-devel, T.J. Mercier,
Christian König, Maxime Ripard, Albert Esteve, Dave Airlie,
linux-doc
In-Reply-To: <ahB7pCu_G4vuswc0@linux.dev>
On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 08:53:10AM -0700, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 11:59:01AM -0400, Eric Chanudet wrote:
> > Add mem_cgroup_dmem_charge() and mem_cgroup_dmem_uncharge() to allow
> > dmem pool allocations to optionally be double-charged against the memory
> > controller. Take the struct cgroup from the dmem pool's css as there is
> > no convenient object exported to represent these allocations. These will
> > resolve the effective memory css from that cgroup and perform the
> > charge.
> >
> > Introduce a MEMCG_DMEM stat counter to memory.stat to make the cgroup's
> > dmem charge visible.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Eric Chanudet <echanude@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > include/linux/memcontrol.h | 16 ++++++++++++
> > mm/memcontrol.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > 2 files changed, 81 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> > index dc3fa687759b45748b2acee6d7f43da325eb50c1..8e1d49b87fb64e6114f3eb920293e14920290fe7 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> > @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ enum memcg_stat_item {
> > MEMCG_ZSWAP_B,
> > MEMCG_ZSWAPPED,
> > MEMCG_ZSWAP_INCOMP,
> > + MEMCG_DMEM,
> > MEMCG_NR_STAT,
> > };
> >
> > @@ -1872,6 +1873,21 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_zswap_writeback_enabled(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> > }
> > #endif
> >
> > +#if defined(CONFIG_MEMCG) && defined(CONFIG_CGROUP_DMEM)
> > +bool mem_cgroup_dmem_charge(struct cgroup *cgrp, unsigned int nr_pages,
> > + gfp_t gfp_mask);
> > +void mem_cgroup_dmem_uncharge(struct cgroup *cgrp, unsigned int nr_pages);
> > +#else
> > +static inline bool mem_cgroup_dmem_charge(struct cgroup *cgrp,
> > + unsigned int nr_pages, gfp_t gfp_mask)
>
> Please follow Johannes's request to pass the actually memory object instead of
> naked numbers.
>
Also what exactly is the backing memory here? Is it system memory? If yes, then
you need to pass struct page. For non-system memory, I am not sure memcg is the
right place to charge such memory.
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* Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] mm/memcontrol: add dmem charge/uncharge functions
From: Shakeel Butt @ 2026-05-22 15:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Chanudet
Cc: Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin, Muchun Song,
Andrew Morton, Maarten Lankhorst, Maxime Ripard, Natalie Vock,
Tejun Heo, Michal Koutný, Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan,
cgroups, linux-mm, linux-kernel, dri-devel, T.J. Mercier,
Christian König, Maxime Ripard, Albert Esteve, Dave Airlie,
linux-doc
In-Reply-To: <20260519-cgroup-dmem-memcg-double-charge-v2-1-db4d1407062b@redhat.com>
On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 11:59:01AM -0400, Eric Chanudet wrote:
> Add mem_cgroup_dmem_charge() and mem_cgroup_dmem_uncharge() to allow
> dmem pool allocations to optionally be double-charged against the memory
> controller. Take the struct cgroup from the dmem pool's css as there is
> no convenient object exported to represent these allocations. These will
> resolve the effective memory css from that cgroup and perform the
> charge.
>
> Introduce a MEMCG_DMEM stat counter to memory.stat to make the cgroup's
> dmem charge visible.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Chanudet <echanude@redhat.com>
> ---
> include/linux/memcontrol.h | 16 ++++++++++++
> mm/memcontrol.c | 65 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 81 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> index dc3fa687759b45748b2acee6d7f43da325eb50c1..8e1d49b87fb64e6114f3eb920293e14920290fe7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
> @@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ enum memcg_stat_item {
> MEMCG_ZSWAP_B,
> MEMCG_ZSWAPPED,
> MEMCG_ZSWAP_INCOMP,
> + MEMCG_DMEM,
> MEMCG_NR_STAT,
> };
>
> @@ -1872,6 +1873,21 @@ static inline bool mem_cgroup_zswap_writeback_enabled(struct mem_cgroup *memcg)
> }
> #endif
>
> +#if defined(CONFIG_MEMCG) && defined(CONFIG_CGROUP_DMEM)
> +bool mem_cgroup_dmem_charge(struct cgroup *cgrp, unsigned int nr_pages,
> + gfp_t gfp_mask);
> +void mem_cgroup_dmem_uncharge(struct cgroup *cgrp, unsigned int nr_pages);
> +#else
> +static inline bool mem_cgroup_dmem_charge(struct cgroup *cgrp,
> + unsigned int nr_pages, gfp_t gfp_mask)
Please follow Johannes's request to pass the actually memory object instead of
naked numbers.
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* Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] cgroup/dmem: add dmem.memcg control file for double-charging to memcg
From: Michal Koutný @ 2026-05-22 15:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eric Chanudet
Cc: Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin, Shakeel Butt,
Muchun Song, Andrew Morton, Maarten Lankhorst, Maxime Ripard,
Natalie Vock, Tejun Heo, Jonathan Corbet, Shuah Khan, cgroups,
linux-mm, linux-kernel, dri-devel, T.J. Mercier,
Christian König, Maxime Ripard, Albert Esteve, Dave Airlie,
linux-doc
In-Reply-To: <20260519-cgroup-dmem-memcg-double-charge-v2-2-db4d1407062b@redhat.com>
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Hello Eric.
On Tue, May 19, 2026 at 11:59:02AM -0400, Eric Chanudet <echanude@redhat.com> wrote:
> Add a root-only cgroupfs file "dmem.memcg" that lets an administrator
> configure whether allocations in a dmem region should also be charged to
> the memory controller.
This kinda makes sense as it is not unlike io.cost.* device
configurators.
Just for my better understanding -- will there be a space for userspace
to switch this? (No charged dmem allocations happen before responsible
userspace runs, so that the attribute remains unlocked.)
(I'm rather indifferent about the actual double charging/non-charging
matter.)
>
> To handle inheritance, dmem adds a depends_on the memory controller,
> unless MEMCG isn't configured in.
>
> Double-charging is disabled by default. Once a charge is attempted, the
> setting is locked to prevent inconsistent accounting by a small 4-state
> machine (off, on, locked off, locked on).
>
> The memcg to charge is derived from the pool's cgroup, since the pool
> holds a reference to the dmem cgroup state that keeps the cgroup alive
> until it gets uncharged.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Chanudet <echanude@redhat.com>
> ---
> Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 23 +++++
> kernel/cgroup/dmem.c | 158 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 2 files changed, 178 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
> index 6efd0095ed995b1550317662bc1b56c7a7f3db23..1d2fa55ddf0faa17baa916a8914d3033e8e42359 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst
> @@ -2828,6 +2828,29 @@ DMEM Interface Files
> drm/0000:03:00.0/vram0 12550144
> drm/0000:03:00.0/stolen 8650752
>
> + dmem.memcg
> + A readwrite nested-keyed file that exists only on the root
> + cgroup.
Strictly speaking this is not nested-keyed but flat keyed [1],
which leads me to realization that this is the first instance of a boolean.
All in call, such a composition comes to my mind (latter is RO):
drm/0000:03:00.0/vram0 enable=0|1 locked=0|1
> +static ssize_t dmem_cgroup_memcg_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf,
> + size_t nbytes, loff_t off)
> +{
> + while (buf) {
> + struct dmem_cgroup_region *region;
> + char *options, *name;
> + bool flag;
> +
> + options = buf;
> + buf = strchr(buf, '\n');
> + if (buf)
> + *buf++ = '\0';
I recall there was a discussion about accepting only a single device per
write(2) (at the same time I see this idiom is still present in other
dmem.* files, so this is nothing to change in _this_ patch).
Thanks,
Michal
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.html#format
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* Re: [PATCH] selftests/cgroup: enable memory controller in hugetlb memcg test
From: Michal Koutný @ 2026-05-22 14:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Guopeng Zhang
Cc: Shuah Khan, Tejun Heo, Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko,
Roman Gushchin, Shakeel Butt, Muchun Song, Oscar Salvador,
David Hildenbrand, cgroups, linux-mm, linux-kselftest,
linux-kernel
In-Reply-To: <20260520093130.490020-1-zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn>
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On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 05:31:30PM +0800, Guopeng Zhang <zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn> wrote:
> test_hugetlb_memcg creates a child cgroup and then writes memory.max and
> memory.swap.max. When the test is run standalone, the memory controller
> may not be enabled in the test root cgroup's subtree_control.
>
> In that case, the child cgroup is created without the memory control
> files, and the test fails during setup before reaching the hugetlb memcg
> accounting checks.
>
> Skip the test when the memory controller is unavailable. Otherwise, enable
> it in subtree_control before creating the test cgroup.
Makes sense.
> Signed-off-by: Guopeng Zhang <zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn>
> ---
> Tested with a cgroup namespace where memory is available in
> cgroup.controllers but not enabled in cgroup.subtree_control:
>
> before: test_hugetlb_memcg failed with "fail to set cgroup memory limit"
> after: test_hugetlb_memcg passed and cgroup.subtree_control contained memory
>
> tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/test_hugetlb_memcg.c | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
Acked-by: Michal Koutný <mkoutny@suse.com>
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* Re: [PATCH 4/8] mm: memcontrol: track MEMCG_KMEM per NUMA node
From: Alexandre Ghiti @ 2026-05-22 11:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Shakeel Butt
Cc: Andrew Morton, Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin,
Muchun Song, Dennis Zhou, Tejun Heo, Christoph Lameter,
Vlastimil Babka, Yosry Ahmed, Nhat Pham, Sergey Senozhatsky,
Chengming Zhou, Suren Baghdasaryan, Qi Zheng, David Hildenbrand,
Lorenzo Stoakes, Minchan Kim, Mike Rapoport, Axel Rasmussen,
Barry Song, Kairui Song, Wei Xu, Yuanchu Xie, Liam R . Howlett,
Joshua Hahn, linux-mm, linux-kernel, cgroups
In-Reply-To: <ag9AY2SrcsE1B3Ti@linux.dev>
On 5/21/26 19:28, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 10:20:39PM +0200, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
>> This patch gets rid of MEMCG_KMEM and wires all the "generic" functions
>> by introducing per-node obj_cgroup objects.
>>
>> Note that it does not convert the kmem users to proper per-memcg-per-node
>> accounting now, this is done in upcoming patches.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>
>> ---
>> include/linux/memcontrol.h | 23 ++++++++++----
>> include/linux/mmzone.h | 1 +
>> mm/memcontrol.c | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>> mm/vmstat.c | 1 +
>> 4 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>> index 568ab08f42af..17cf823160e4 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
>> @@ -35,7 +35,6 @@ enum memcg_stat_item {
>> MEMCG_SWAP = NR_VM_NODE_STAT_ITEMS,
>> MEMCG_SOCK,
>> MEMCG_PERCPU_B,
>> - MEMCG_KMEM,
>> MEMCG_ZSWAP_B,
>> MEMCG_ZSWAPPED,
>> MEMCG_ZSWAP_INCOMP,
>> @@ -126,9 +125,10 @@ struct mem_cgroup_per_node {
>> struct list_head objcg_list;
>>
>> #ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_NMI_SAFETY_REQUIRES_ATOMIC
>> - /* slab stats for nmi context */
>> + /* slab and kmem stats for nmi context */
>> atomic_t slab_reclaimable;
>> atomic_t slab_unreclaimable;
>> + atomic_t kmem;
>> #endif
>> };
>>
>> @@ -190,6 +190,7 @@ struct obj_cgroup {
>> struct rcu_head rcu;
>> };
>> bool is_root;
>> + int nid;
>> };
>>
>> /*
>> @@ -254,10 +255,6 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
>> atomic_long_t memory_events[MEMCG_NR_MEMORY_EVENTS];
>> atomic_long_t memory_events_local[MEMCG_NR_MEMORY_EVENTS];
>>
>> -#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_NMI_SAFETY_REQUIRES_ATOMIC
>> - /* MEMCG_KMEM for nmi context */
>> - atomic_t kmem_stat;
>> -#endif
>> /*
>> * Hint of reclaim pressure for socket memroy management. Note
>> * that this indicator should NOT be used in legacy cgroup mode
>> @@ -776,6 +773,20 @@ static inline void obj_cgroup_put(struct obj_cgroup *objcg)
>> percpu_ref_put(&objcg->refcnt);
>> }
>>
>> +static inline struct obj_cgroup *obj_cgroup_get_nid(struct obj_cgroup *objcg,
>> + int nid)
>> +{
>> + struct obj_cgroup *nid_objcg;
>> + struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
>> +
>> + rcu_read_lock();
>> + memcg = obj_cgroup_memcg(objcg);
>> + nid_objcg = rcu_dereference(memcg->nodeinfo[nid]->objcg);
>> + rcu_read_unlock();
>> +
>> + return nid_objcg;
> What is guarating the life of nid_objcg?
Sashiko raised the same question, so I need to be educated here: what
currently guarantees the life objcg returned by current_obj_cgroup()?
>
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* Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC][RFC PATCH v4 00/27] Private Memory Nodes (w/ Compressed RAM)
From: Arun George/Arun George @ 2026-05-22 8:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Gregory Price
Cc: lsf-pc, linux-kernel, linux-cxl, cgroups, linux-mm,
linux-trace-kernel, damon, kernel-team, gregkh, rafael, dakr,
dave, dave.jiang, alison.schofield, vishal.l.verma, ira.weiny,
longman, akpm, david, lorenzo.stoakes, Liam.Howlett, vbabka, rppt,
surenb, mhocko, osalvador, ziy, matthew.brost, joshua.hahnjy,
rakie.kim, byungchul, ying.huang, apopple, axelrasmussen, yuanchu,
weixugc, yury.norov, linux, mhiramat, mathieu.desnoyers, tj,
hannes, mkoutny, jackmanb, sj, baolin.wang, npache, ryan.roberts,
dev.jain, baohua, lance.yang, muchun.song, xu.xin16,
chengming.zhou, jannh, linmiaohe, nao.horiguchi, pfalcato,
rientjes, shakeel.butt, riel, harry.yoo, cl, roman.gushchin,
chrisl, kasong, shikemeng, nphamcs, bhe, zhengqi.arch,
terry.bowman, gost.dev, arungeorge05, cpgs
In-Reply-To: <afmgJcFUjQLYxkb5@gourry-fedora-PF4VCD3F>
Thanks.
On 05-05-2026 01:15 pm, Gregory Price wrote:
> In the scenario i'm talking about, a "write budget" is defined as a
> number of pages that are allows to be mapped writable in the page
> tables at any given time.
> Agree. I was also in the same context.
I am trying to bring the device perspective here, and would like to
discuss a few corner cases and possible solutions.
As I see, solving the compressed memory problem statement has these
aspects mainly:
1) Allocation control: private/managed memory concept.
2) Write control: write-protected PTEs, write-controlled use cases like
ZSWAP
3) Proactive reclaims: optional methods to ease back-pressure using
memory shrinkers, ballooning, kswapd, promotion etc. These methods will
be triggered based on notifications/interrupts from the device.
May be they are not enough to cover some corner cases for cram!
I believe that this thin-provisioned memory infra is susceptible to
'writes-above-media-capacity corner cases' (because of not handling
device back-pressure notifications in time) whichever methods we use in
the kernel. Even if we use write-controlled methods like ZSWAP and
pro-active reclaims, there could be corner cases where the communication
with the device could be broken and the write path is not aware of it
immediately. Note that OCP spec [1] says the device should mark the
memory location as 'poisoned' in 'over-capacity' writes.
So I have the following proposals / options for this scenario.
Option 1: Poisoned data management - This is about accepting that
poisoning of memory locations can happen in much more regular frequency
here than regular memories and we need to figure out potential recovery
mechanisms in host (not recovery of data; but recovery from the poison
situation). But I guess folks will not be okay with it in general, and I
am not aware of any workloads where data poisoning is tolerated (may be
caching workloads?).
Option 2 (preferred): Device assisted write budgeting - This is
about a device aware / assisted mechanism for the write-controlled
use-cases (Ex: ZSWAP) to know the 'safe number of writes' that can be
performed to the device (Or allows to be mapped writable in the page
tables). This could be like a 'token bucket' algorithm, where the device
provides a 'budget / set of tokens' to the host. And it need to be
replenished periodically in the device communication code path; and if
the host does not find the token, writes cannot go ahead.
In short, the communication with the device has to be maintained to make
pages mapped writable. For MVP, this could be a simple constraint of
checking actual device capacity periodically to replenish write-budget
for CRAM. For other users of private nodes (GPU memory?), this
constraint may not be needed at all.
We are planning to send an RFC code which will fit into your CRAM infra
to discuss this poison management approach further.
[1]:
https://www.opencompute.org/documents/hyperscale-tiered-memory-expander-specification-for-compute-express-link-cxl-1-pdf
~Arun George
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* Re: [PATCH v2] cgroup/dmem: implement dmem.high soft limit via prioritized eviction
From: Natalie Vock @ 2026-05-22 9:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Qiliang Yuan, Christian Koenig, Huang Rui, Matthew Auld,
Matthew Brost, Maarten Lankhorst, Maxime Ripard,
Thomas Zimmermann, David Airlie, Simona Vetter, Tejun Heo,
Johannes Weiner, Michal Koutný
Cc: dri-devel, linux-kernel, cgroups
In-Reply-To: <20260522-feature-dmem-high-v2-1-1d7d4a0fa5da@gmail.com>
Are you using AI to write these patches? I have some suspicions. AI
tools and helpers involved in creating patches have to be disclosed.
Regards,
Natalie
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* [PATCH v2] blk-throttle: schedule parent dispatch in tg_flush_bios()
From: Tao Cui @ 2026-05-22 9:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: tj, josef, axboe, cgroups; +Cc: linux-block, Tao Cui, Shin'ichiro Kawasaki
tg_flush_bios() schedules pending_timer on the child tg's own
service_queue, which causes throtl_pending_timer_fn() to dispatch from
the child's pending_tree. For leaf cgroups this tree is empty, so the
timer fires and exits without dispatching the throttled bio.
The throttled bio sits in the parent's pending_tree with disptime set
to jiffies (THROTL_TG_CANCELING zeroes all dispatch times), but the
parent's timer is never explicitly rescheduled. The bio only gets
dispatched when the parent timer eventually fires at its previously
scheduled expiry.
Fix by calling throtl_schedule_next_dispatch(sq->parent_sq, true)
instead, matching what tg_set_limit() already does. This forces the
parent's dispatch cycle to run immediately and flush all canceling
bios without waiting for a stale timer.
For the device deletion path (blk_throtl_cancel_bios), directly
complete throttled bios with EIO via bio_io_error() instead of
dispatching them through the timer -> work -> submission chain.
This avoids a race with the SCSI state machine where bios can reach
the SCSI layer while the device is in SDEV_CANCEL state, causing
ENODEV instead of the expected EIO.
Reported-by: Shin'ichiro Kawasaki <shinichiro.kawasaki@wdc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ag2owaQQoigp_fSV@shinmob/
Signed-off-by: Tao Cui <cuitao@kylinos.cn>
---
Changes in v2:
- Rewrite blk_throtl_cancel_bios() to directly complete throttled
bios with EIO via bio_io_error() instead of dispatching them
through the timer -> work -> submission chain. This avoids a
race with the SCSI state machine during device deletion where
bios can reach the SCSI layer while the device is in SDEV_CANCEL
state, causing ENODEV instead of the expected EIO.
- Add Reported-by and Link tags from Shin'ichiro Kawasaki's report.
v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260520062420.1762788-1-cuitao@kylinos.cn/
---
block/blk-throttle.c | 51 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/blk-throttle.c b/block/blk-throttle.c
index cabf91f0d0dc..88986dde1e18 100644
--- a/block/blk-throttle.c
+++ b/block/blk-throttle.c
@@ -1649,7 +1649,7 @@ static void tg_flush_bios(struct throtl_grp *tg)
*/
tg_update_disptime(tg);
- throtl_schedule_pending_timer(sq, jiffies + 1);
+ throtl_schedule_next_dispatch(sq->parent_sq, true);
}
static void throtl_pd_offline(struct blkg_policy_data *pd)
@@ -1668,11 +1668,52 @@ struct blkcg_policy blkcg_policy_throtl = {
.pd_free_fn = throtl_pd_free,
};
+static void tg_cancel_writeback_bios(struct throtl_grp *tg,
+ struct bio_list *cancel_bios)
+{
+ struct throtl_service_queue *sq = &tg->service_queue;
+ struct throtl_data *td = sq_to_td(sq);
+ int rw;
+
+ if (tg->flags & THROTL_TG_CANCELING)
+ return;
+ tg->flags |= THROTL_TG_CANCELING;
+
+ for (rw = READ; rw <= WRITE; rw++) {
+ struct throtl_qnode *qn, *tmp;
+ unsigned int nr_bios = 0;
+
+ list_for_each_entry_safe(qn, tmp, &sq->queued[rw], node) {
+ struct bio *bio;
+
+ while ((bio = bio_list_pop(&qn->bios_iops))) {
+ sq->nr_queued_iops[rw]--;
+ bio_list_add(&cancel_bios[rw], bio);
+ nr_bios++;
+ }
+ while ((bio = bio_list_pop(&qn->bios_bps))) {
+ sq->nr_queued_bps[rw]--;
+ bio_list_add(&cancel_bios[rw], bio);
+ nr_bios++;
+ }
+
+ list_del_init(&qn->node);
+ blkg_put(tg_to_blkg(qn->tg));
+ }
+
+ td->nr_queued[rw] -= nr_bios;
+ }
+
+ throtl_dequeue_tg(tg);
+}
+
void blk_throtl_cancel_bios(struct gendisk *disk)
{
struct request_queue *q = disk->queue;
struct cgroup_subsys_state *pos_css;
struct blkcg_gq *blkg;
+ struct bio_list cancel_bios[2] = { };
+ int rw;
if (!blk_throtl_activated(q))
return;
@@ -1693,10 +1734,16 @@ void blk_throtl_cancel_bios(struct gendisk *disk)
* Cancel bios here to ensure no bios are inflight after
* del_gendisk.
*/
- tg_flush_bios(blkg_to_tg(blkg));
+ tg_cancel_writeback_bios(blkg_to_tg(blkg), cancel_bios);
}
rcu_read_unlock();
spin_unlock_irq(&q->queue_lock);
+
+ for (rw = READ; rw <= WRITE; rw++) {
+ struct bio *bio;
+ while ((bio = bio_list_pop(&cancel_bios[rw])))
+ bio_io_error(bio);
+ }
}
static bool tg_within_limit(struct throtl_grp *tg, struct bio *bio, bool rw)
--
2.43.0
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* Re: [PATCH] cgroup/cpuset: Use effective_xcpus in partcmd_update add/del mask calculation
From: Guopeng Zhang @ 2026-05-22 8:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sun Shaojie, Waiman Long, Chen Ridong, Tejun Heo, Johannes Weiner,
Michal Koutný
Cc: cgroups, linux-kernel
In-Reply-To: <20260522075357.127075-1-sunshaojie@kylinos.cn>
在 2026/5/22 15:53, Sun Shaojie 写道:
> When sibling CPU exclusion occurs, a partition's user_xcpus may contain
> CPUs that were never actually granted to it. These CPUs are present in
> user_xcpus(cs) but not in cs->effective_xcpus.
>
> The partcmd_update path in update_parent_effective_cpumask() uses
> user_xcpus(cs) (via the local variable xcpus) to compute the addmask
> (CPUs to return to parent) and delmask (CPUs to request from parent).
> This is incorrect:
>
> 1) When newmask removes a CPU that was previously excluded by a
> sibling, addmask incorrectly includes that CPU and tries to return
> it to the parent even though the partition never actually owned it,
> causing CPU overlap with sibling partitions and triggering warnings
> in generate_sched_domains().
>
> 2) When newmask adds a previously excluded CPU that is now available,
> delmask fails to request it from the parent because user_xcpus(cs)
> already includes it.
>
> Fix this by using cs->effective_xcpus instead of user_xcpus(cs) in all
> partcmd_update paths that calculate addmask or delmask, including the
> PERR_NOCPUS error handling paths.
>
> Reproducers:
>
> Example 1 - Removing a sibling-excluded CPU incorrectly returns it:
>
> # cd /sys/fs/cgroup
> # echo "0-1" > a1/cpuset.cpus
> # echo "root" > a1/cpuset.cpus.partition
> # echo "0-2" > b1/cpuset.cpus
> # echo "root" > b1/cpuset.cpus.partition
> # echo "2" > b1/cpuset.cpus
> # cat cpuset.cpus.effective
> # Actual: 0-1,3 Expected: 3
>
> Example 2 - Expanding to a previously excluded CPU fails to request it:
>
> # cd /sys/fs/cgroup
> # echo "0-1" > a1/cpuset.cpus
> # echo "root" > a1/cpuset.cpus.partition
> # echo "0-2" > b1/cpuset.cpus
> # echo "root" > b1/cpuset.cpus.partition
> # echo "member" > a1/cpuset.cpus.partition
> # echo "1-2" > b1/cpuset.cpus
> # cat cpuset.cpus.effective
> # Actual: 0-1,3 Expected: 0,3
>
> Fixes: 2a3602030d80 ("cgroup/cpuset: Don't invalidate sibling partitions on cpuset.cpus conflict")
> Signed-off-by: Sun Shaojie <sunshaojie@kylinos.cn>
> ---
> kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 9 +++++----
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
> index 1335e437098e..5a5fa2481467 100644
> --- a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
> +++ b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
> @@ -1821,11 +1821,11 @@ static int update_parent_effective_cpumask(struct cpuset *cs, int cmd,
> deleting = cpumask_and(tmp->delmask,
> newmask, parent->effective_xcpus);
> } else {
> - cpumask_andnot(tmp->addmask, xcpus, newmask);
> + cpumask_andnot(tmp->addmask, cs->effective_xcpus, newmask);
> adding = cpumask_and(tmp->addmask, tmp->addmask,
> parent->effective_xcpus);
>
> - cpumask_andnot(tmp->delmask, newmask, xcpus);
> + cpumask_andnot(tmp->delmask, newmask, cs->effective_xcpus);
> deleting = cpumask_and(tmp->delmask, tmp->delmask,
> parent->effective_xcpus);
> }
> @@ -1864,7 +1864,7 @@ static int update_parent_effective_cpumask(struct cpuset *cs, int cmd,
> part_error = PERR_NOCPUS;
> deleting = false;
> adding = cpumask_and(tmp->addmask,
> - xcpus, parent->effective_xcpus);
> + cs->effective_xcpus, parent->effective_xcpus);
> }
> } else {
> /*
> @@ -1886,7 +1886,8 @@ static int update_parent_effective_cpumask(struct cpuset *cs, int cmd,
> part_error = PERR_NOCPUS;
> if (is_partition_valid(cs))
> adding = cpumask_and(tmp->addmask,
> - xcpus, parent->effective_xcpus);
> + cs->effective_xcpus,
> + parent->effective_xcpus);
> } else if (is_partition_invalid(cs) && !cpumask_empty(xcpus) &&
> cpumask_subset(xcpus, parent->effective_xcpus)) {
> struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
Hi, Shaojie
The code change looks reasonable to me, but I think the comment above
the partcmd_update calculation should be updated as well.
Maybe it can be updated like this:
* Compute add/delete mask to/from effective_cpus
*
* For valid partition:
- * addmask = exclusive_cpus & ~newmask
+ * addmask = cs->effective_xcpus & ~newmask
* & parent->effective_xcpus
- * delmask = newmask & ~exclusive_cpus
+ * delmask = newmask & ~cs->effective_xcpus
* & parent->effective_xcpus
*
* For invalid partition:
Does this look reasonable to you?
Tested-by: Guopeng Zhang <zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn>
Thanks.
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* [PATCH v2] cgroup/dmem: implement dmem.high soft limit via prioritized eviction
From: Qiliang Yuan @ 2026-05-22 8:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christian Koenig, Huang Rui, Matthew Auld, Matthew Brost,
Maarten Lankhorst, Maxime Ripard, Thomas Zimmermann, David Airlie,
Simona Vetter, Tejun Heo, Johannes Weiner, Michal Koutný,
Natalie Vock
Cc: dri-devel, linux-kernel, cgroups, Qiliang Yuan
The dmem cgroup v2 controller currently only provides a hard "max"
limit, which causes immediate allocation failures when a cgroup's
device memory usage reaches its quota. GPU-bound AI workloads need
smoother over-subscription support: a soft limit that temporarily
allows excess usage while applying backpressure through reclaim
rather than outright failure.
Add dmem.high, a soft limit that penalizes over-limit cgroups by
evicting their buffer objects first when eviction is triggered (e.g.
due to a "max" limit hit). Unlike the rejected v1 approach which
used sleep-on-allocation throttling, this version provides a
meaningful recovery action through prioritized reclaim.
Expose "high" as a new cgroupfs control file per region via
set_resource_high() and get_resource_high(), and initialize it to
PAGE_COUNTER_MAX in reset_all_resource_limits().
Extend dmem_cgroup_state_evict_valuable() with a "try_high"
parameter. When set, only pools with usage above their high limit
are considered evictable, implementing tier-1 of the prioritized
eviction model. For the existing low-priority passes, the original
effective-low/effective-min protection logic is unchanged.
Refactor ttm_bo_evict_alloc() into a 3-pass eviction strategy.
Pass 1 uses trylock and targets only BOs whose cgroup exceeds
dmem.high. Pass 2 falls back to the standard above-elow eviction.
Pass 3+ uses proper locking and repeats while making progress,
with the existing low-watermark fallback.
This adds one extra LRU walk when over-limit cgroups are present,
but avoids any throttling or sleeping in the charge path, which
would be catastrophic for GPU submission pipelines.
Signed-off-by: Qiliang Yuan <realwujing@gmail.com>
---
Introduce a "high" soft limit for the dmem cgroup v2 controller.
When a "max" limit is hit and eviction is triggered, buffer objects
belonging to cgroups that exceed their dmem.high limit are targeted
first, providing a meaningful recovery action through reclaim.
The dmem cgroup currently only supports hard "max" limits, which
cause immediate allocation failures for GPU-bound workloads. A soft
limit enables smoother over-subscription by penalizing over-limit
cgroups via prioritized eviction rather than outright rejection.
The implementation adds a "high" cgroupfs control file per region,
a try_high parameter to dmem_cgroup_state_evict_valuable() for
tier-1 eviction, and a 3-pass strategy in ttm_bo_evict_alloc().
---
V1 -> V2:
- Replace sleep-on-allocation throttling with prioritized eviction.
When a "max" limit is hit, BOs from cgroups exceeding dmem.high are
evicted first in a dedicated pass. No throttling or sleeping is
performed in the charge path.
- Remove task throttling (schedule_timeout_killable, TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME,
resume_user_mode_work() integration) entirely.
- Add dmem.high cgroupfs control file per region.
- Extend dmem_cgroup_state_evict_valuable() with try_high parameter
to target over-limit cgroups as tier-1 eviction.
- Refactor ttm_bo_evict_alloc() into a 3-pass eviction strategy:
(1) trylock: evict only BOs exceeding dmem.high
(2) trylock: above-elow
(3) proper-lock: repeat with low fallback.
- Initialize high to PAGE_COUNTER_MAX in reset_all_resource_limits().
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260520-feature-dmem-high-v1-1-97ca0cb7f95a@gmail.com
---
drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++------
include/linux/cgroup_dmem.h | 4 ++--
kernel/cgroup/dmem.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
3 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c
index bcd76f6bb7f02..eefcdb6155d63 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ttm/ttm_bo.c
@@ -505,6 +505,8 @@ struct ttm_bo_evict_walk {
/** @limit_pool: Which pool limit we should test against */
struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *limit_pool;
+ /** @try_high: Whether to only evict BO's above the high watermark (first pass) */
+ bool try_high;
/** @try_low: Whether we should attempt to evict BO's with low watermark threshold */
bool try_low;
/** @hit_low: If we cannot evict a bo when @try_low is false (first pass) */
@@ -518,7 +520,8 @@ static s64 ttm_bo_evict_cb(struct ttm_lru_walk *walk, struct ttm_buffer_object *
s64 lret;
if (!dmem_cgroup_state_evict_valuable(evict_walk->limit_pool, bo->resource->css,
- evict_walk->try_low, &evict_walk->hit_low))
+ evict_walk->try_high, evict_walk->try_low,
+ &evict_walk->hit_low))
return 0;
if (bo->pin_count || !bo->bdev->funcs->eviction_valuable(bo, evict_walk->place))
@@ -577,31 +580,44 @@ static int ttm_bo_evict_alloc(struct ttm_device *bdev,
};
s64 lret;
+ /*
+ * Pass 1 (trylock): Only evict BOs whose cgroup is above its
+ * dmem.high soft limit. This penalizes over-limit cgroups first.
+ */
evict_walk.walk.arg.trylock_only = true;
+ evict_walk.try_high = true;
lret = ttm_lru_walk_for_evict(&evict_walk.walk, bdev, man, 1);
+ evict_walk.try_high = false;
+ if (lret)
+ goto out;
- /* One more attempt if we hit low limit? */
+ /*
+ * Pass 2 (trylock): Evict BOs above the effective low watermark.
+ * Falls back to low-priority eviction if needed.
+ */
+ lret = ttm_lru_walk_for_evict(&evict_walk.walk, bdev, man, 1);
if (!lret && evict_walk.hit_low) {
evict_walk.try_low = true;
lret = ttm_lru_walk_for_evict(&evict_walk.walk, bdev, man, 1);
}
+
if (lret || !ticket)
goto out;
- /* Reset low limit */
+ /*
+ * Pass 3+ (properly locked): Evict while making progress.
+ * Reset flags and retry with try_low if we hit the low watermark.
+ */
evict_walk.try_low = evict_walk.hit_low = false;
- /* If ticket-locking, repeat while making progress. */
evict_walk.walk.arg.trylock_only = false;
retry:
do {
- /* The walk may clear the evict_walk.walk.ticket field */
evict_walk.walk.arg.ticket = ticket;
evict_walk.evicted = 0;
lret = ttm_lru_walk_for_evict(&evict_walk.walk, bdev, man, 1);
} while (!lret && evict_walk.evicted);
- /* We hit the low limit? Try once more */
if (!lret && evict_walk.hit_low && !evict_walk.try_low) {
evict_walk.try_low = true;
goto retry;
diff --git a/include/linux/cgroup_dmem.h b/include/linux/cgroup_dmem.h
index dd4869f1d736e..06115d35509b1 100644
--- a/include/linux/cgroup_dmem.h
+++ b/include/linux/cgroup_dmem.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ int dmem_cgroup_try_charge(struct dmem_cgroup_region *region, u64 size,
void dmem_cgroup_uncharge(struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *pool, u64 size);
bool dmem_cgroup_state_evict_valuable(struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *limit_pool,
struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *test_pool,
- bool ignore_low, bool *ret_hit_low);
+ bool try_high, bool ignore_low, bool *ret_hit_low);
void dmem_cgroup_pool_state_put(struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *pool);
#else
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static inline void dmem_cgroup_uncharge(struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *pool, u64
static inline
bool dmem_cgroup_state_evict_valuable(struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *limit_pool,
struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *test_pool,
- bool ignore_low, bool *ret_hit_low)
+ bool try_high, bool ignore_low, bool *ret_hit_low)
{
return true;
}
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/dmem.c b/kernel/cgroup/dmem.c
index 4753a67d0f0f2..3799ecd6d7b52 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/dmem.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/dmem.c
@@ -156,6 +156,12 @@ set_resource_low(struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *pool, u64 val)
page_counter_set_low(&pool->cnt, val);
}
+static void
+set_resource_high(struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *pool, u64 val)
+{
+ page_counter_set_high(&pool->cnt, val);
+}
+
static void
set_resource_max(struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *pool, u64 val)
{
@@ -167,6 +173,11 @@ static u64 get_resource_low(struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *pool)
return pool ? READ_ONCE(pool->cnt.low) : 0;
}
+static u64 get_resource_high(struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *pool)
+{
+ return pool ? READ_ONCE(pool->cnt.high) : PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;
+}
+
static u64 get_resource_min(struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *pool)
{
return pool ? READ_ONCE(pool->cnt.min) : 0;
@@ -186,6 +197,7 @@ static void reset_all_resource_limits(struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *rpool)
{
set_resource_min(rpool, 0);
set_resource_low(rpool, 0);
+ set_resource_high(rpool, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX);
set_resource_max(rpool, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX);
}
@@ -289,10 +301,13 @@ dmem_cgroup_calculate_protection(struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *limit_pool,
* dmem_cgroup_state_evict_valuable() - Check if we should evict from test_pool
* @limit_pool: The pool for which we hit limits
* @test_pool: The pool for which to test
+ * @try_high: Only evict BOs whose usage exceeds the high limit (first pass)
* @ignore_low: Whether we have to respect low watermarks.
* @ret_hit_low: Pointer to whether it makes sense to consider low watermark.
*
* This function returns true if we can evict from @test_pool, false if not.
+ * When @try_high is set, only pools with usage above their high limit are
+ * evictable, enabling prioritized eviction of over-limit cgroups.
* When returning false and @ignore_low is false, @ret_hit_low may
* be set to true to indicate this function can be retried with @ignore_low
* set to true.
@@ -301,7 +316,7 @@ dmem_cgroup_calculate_protection(struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *limit_pool,
*/
bool dmem_cgroup_state_evict_valuable(struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *limit_pool,
struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *test_pool,
- bool ignore_low, bool *ret_hit_low)
+ bool try_high, bool ignore_low, bool *ret_hit_low)
{
struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *pool = test_pool;
struct page_counter *ctest;
@@ -331,9 +346,18 @@ bool dmem_cgroup_state_evict_valuable(struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *limit_pool,
ctest = &test_pool->cnt;
+ used = page_counter_read(ctest);
+
+ /*
+ * High-priority pass: only evict BOs whose cgroup is above its
+ * dmem.high soft limit. This implements tier-1 of the 3-pass
+ * eviction model, ensuring over-limit cgroups are penalized first.
+ */
+ if (try_high)
+ return used > READ_ONCE(ctest->high);
+
dmem_cgroup_calculate_protection(limit_pool, test_pool);
- used = page_counter_read(ctest);
min = READ_ONCE(ctest->emin);
if (used <= min)
@@ -835,6 +859,17 @@ static ssize_t dmem_cgroup_region_low_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
return dmemcg_limit_write(of, buf, nbytes, off, set_resource_low);
}
+static int dmem_cgroup_region_high_show(struct seq_file *sf, void *v)
+{
+ return dmemcg_limit_show(sf, v, get_resource_high);
+}
+
+static ssize_t dmem_cgroup_region_high_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of,
+ char *buf, size_t nbytes, loff_t off)
+{
+ return dmemcg_limit_write(of, buf, nbytes, off, set_resource_high);
+}
+
static int dmem_cgroup_region_max_show(struct seq_file *sf, void *v)
{
return dmemcg_limit_show(sf, v, get_resource_max);
@@ -868,6 +903,12 @@ static struct cftype files[] = {
.seq_show = dmem_cgroup_region_low_show,
.flags = CFTYPE_NOT_ON_ROOT,
},
+ {
+ .name = "high",
+ .write = dmem_cgroup_region_high_write,
+ .seq_show = dmem_cgroup_region_high_show,
+ .flags = CFTYPE_NOT_ON_ROOT,
+ },
{
.name = "max",
.write = dmem_cgroup_region_max_write,
---
base-commit: ab5fce87a778cb780a05984a2ca448f2b41aafbf
change-id: 20260519-feature-dmem-high-16997148dc38
Best regards,
--
Qiliang Yuan <realwujing@gmail.com>
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* Re: [PATCH 2/8] mm: percpu: charge obj_exts allocation with __GFP_ACCOUNT
From: Alexandre Ghiti @ 2026-05-22 8:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Shakeel Butt
Cc: Andrew Morton, Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin,
Muchun Song, Dennis Zhou, Tejun Heo, Christoph Lameter,
Vlastimil Babka, Yosry Ahmed, Nhat Pham, Sergey Senozhatsky,
Chengming Zhou, Suren Baghdasaryan, Qi Zheng, David Hildenbrand,
Lorenzo Stoakes, Minchan Kim, Mike Rapoport, Axel Rasmussen,
Barry Song, Kairui Song, Wei Xu, Yuanchu Xie, Liam R . Howlett,
Joshua Hahn, linux-mm, linux-kernel, cgroups
In-Reply-To: <ag8-Dfoco9qQho0A@linux.dev>
Hi Shakeel,
On 5/21/26 19:25, Shakeel Butt wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2026 at 10:20:37PM +0200, Alexandre Ghiti wrote:
>> This is a preparatory patch for upcoming per-memcg-per-node kmem
>> accounting.
>>
>> pcpu allocations are always fully charged at once using
>> pcpu_obj_full_size(), which returns the size of the pcpu "metadata" +
>> pcpu "payload". But metadata and payload may not be allocated on the
>> same numa node, so charge the metadata independently from the payload.
>>
>> Do this by explicitly passing __GFP_ACCOUNT to the obj_exts allocation
>> and remove its accounting in pcpu_memcg_pre_alloc_hook().
> Will all the entries in obj_exts array be for the same memcg? If not then why we
> are charging the whole array to the one which happen to allocate the array?
Hmm, I overlooked the amount allocated, so that's my mistake: the
chunk-allocating-memcg will be charged for all the metadata, although
before the charge was distributed. And according to Claude, the metadata
would represent 64kB, so not negligible.
>
> Sorry I don't know the details of percpu allocator, so asking some dumb
> questions:
>
> 1. Does the alloc_percpu() (& similar functions) allocate the underlying on a
> single node or does it allocate memory for each cpu on their local node?
> For slub, it is on the same node, so the situation is easier to handle.
To me, chunk metadata and actual pages are allocated differently:
- pcpu_alloc_pages() tries to allocate the pages on the cpu local node
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v7.0.9/source/mm/percpu-vm.c#L95. But
to me no guarantee it won't fallback to any other node. And I don't
think that __GFP_THISNODE would be a good idea here.
- pcpu_alloc_chunk() uses kmalloc or vmalloc depending on the size, so
not attached to specific node, that's why I wanted GFP_ACCOUNT to do the
job for us in the first place.
>
> 2. On a typical system how much memory is consumed by obj_exts for the percpu
> allocator chunks? I am wondering if we don't charge it, how much will we
> loose?
So according to my previous answer, 64kB. I have just noticed that a
bunch of dynamically allocated chunk fields are not accounted either,
which again according to Claude represent 2.3kB. I don't have much
experience in accounting but that's far from negligible right? Which
amount are we keen to lose to make the code simpler (or for other reasons)?
>
> 3. What would be side effect on assuming that obj_exts is on the same node as
> the given chunk?
Given the size of obj_exts, overcharging one node while undercharging
others?
To conclude, you're right, I did not dive deep enough into the metadata
sizes, I'll fix that.
Thanks,
Alex
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* [PATCH] cgroup/cpuset: Use effective_xcpus in partcmd_update add/del mask calculation
From: Sun Shaojie @ 2026-05-22 7:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Waiman Long, Chen Ridong, Tejun Heo, Johannes Weiner,
Michal Koutný
Cc: cgroups, linux-kernel, Sun Shaojie
When sibling CPU exclusion occurs, a partition's user_xcpus may contain
CPUs that were never actually granted to it. These CPUs are present in
user_xcpus(cs) but not in cs->effective_xcpus.
The partcmd_update path in update_parent_effective_cpumask() uses
user_xcpus(cs) (via the local variable xcpus) to compute the addmask
(CPUs to return to parent) and delmask (CPUs to request from parent).
This is incorrect:
1) When newmask removes a CPU that was previously excluded by a
sibling, addmask incorrectly includes that CPU and tries to return
it to the parent even though the partition never actually owned it,
causing CPU overlap with sibling partitions and triggering warnings
in generate_sched_domains().
2) When newmask adds a previously excluded CPU that is now available,
delmask fails to request it from the parent because user_xcpus(cs)
already includes it.
Fix this by using cs->effective_xcpus instead of user_xcpus(cs) in all
partcmd_update paths that calculate addmask or delmask, including the
PERR_NOCPUS error handling paths.
Reproducers:
Example 1 - Removing a sibling-excluded CPU incorrectly returns it:
# cd /sys/fs/cgroup
# echo "0-1" > a1/cpuset.cpus
# echo "root" > a1/cpuset.cpus.partition
# echo "0-2" > b1/cpuset.cpus
# echo "root" > b1/cpuset.cpus.partition
# echo "2" > b1/cpuset.cpus
# cat cpuset.cpus.effective
# Actual: 0-1,3 Expected: 3
Example 2 - Expanding to a previously excluded CPU fails to request it:
# cd /sys/fs/cgroup
# echo "0-1" > a1/cpuset.cpus
# echo "root" > a1/cpuset.cpus.partition
# echo "0-2" > b1/cpuset.cpus
# echo "root" > b1/cpuset.cpus.partition
# echo "member" > a1/cpuset.cpus.partition
# echo "1-2" > b1/cpuset.cpus
# cat cpuset.cpus.effective
# Actual: 0-1,3 Expected: 0,3
Fixes: 2a3602030d80 ("cgroup/cpuset: Don't invalidate sibling partitions on cpuset.cpus conflict")
Signed-off-by: Sun Shaojie <sunshaojie@kylinos.cn>
---
kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
index 1335e437098e..5a5fa2481467 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c
@@ -1821,11 +1821,11 @@ static int update_parent_effective_cpumask(struct cpuset *cs, int cmd,
deleting = cpumask_and(tmp->delmask,
newmask, parent->effective_xcpus);
} else {
- cpumask_andnot(tmp->addmask, xcpus, newmask);
+ cpumask_andnot(tmp->addmask, cs->effective_xcpus, newmask);
adding = cpumask_and(tmp->addmask, tmp->addmask,
parent->effective_xcpus);
- cpumask_andnot(tmp->delmask, newmask, xcpus);
+ cpumask_andnot(tmp->delmask, newmask, cs->effective_xcpus);
deleting = cpumask_and(tmp->delmask, tmp->delmask,
parent->effective_xcpus);
}
@@ -1864,7 +1864,7 @@ static int update_parent_effective_cpumask(struct cpuset *cs, int cmd,
part_error = PERR_NOCPUS;
deleting = false;
adding = cpumask_and(tmp->addmask,
- xcpus, parent->effective_xcpus);
+ cs->effective_xcpus, parent->effective_xcpus);
}
} else {
/*
@@ -1886,7 +1886,8 @@ static int update_parent_effective_cpumask(struct cpuset *cs, int cmd,
part_error = PERR_NOCPUS;
if (is_partition_valid(cs))
adding = cpumask_and(tmp->addmask,
- xcpus, parent->effective_xcpus);
+ cs->effective_xcpus,
+ parent->effective_xcpus);
} else if (is_partition_invalid(cs) && !cpumask_empty(xcpus) &&
cpumask_subset(xcpus, parent->effective_xcpus)) {
struct cgroup_subsys_state *css;
--
2.43.0
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* Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] memcg: int16_t for cached slab stats
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
In-Reply-To: <20260522011908.1669332-4-shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
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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* [PATCH v2] mm/memcontrol: Avoid stuck FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE on isolated CPU
From: Hui Zhu @ 2026-05-22 7:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Johannes Weiner, Michal Hocko, Roman Gushchin, Shakeel Butt,
Muchun Song, Andrew Morton, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior,
Clark Williams, Steven Rostedt, Waiman Long, cgroups, linux-mm,
linux-kernel, linux-rt-devel
Cc: Hui Zhu
From: Hui Zhu <zhuhui@kylinos.cn>
drain_all_stock() sets FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE before calling
schedule_drain_work() to queue per-CPU drain work. When the target
CPU is isolated (cpu_is_isolated() == true), the work is silently
not queued, but FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE stays set. Every subsequent
drain_all_stock() then sees the bit and skips this stock entirely,
so the entry is effectively pinned until something else on that CPU
runs drain_local_*_stock() and clears the bit -- which on a long-
isolated CPU may never happen.
The original idea was to actually perform the drain from the calling
CPU on behalf of the isolated one, by adding a lock around the
per-CPU stock so that a remote drainer could safely touch it. In
practice this turned out to be intrusive: the stock data structures
and their fast paths (consume_stock(), refill_stock(), the obj_stock
helpers) are deliberately designed around current-CPU-only access,
and retrofitting cross-CPU serialisation onto them adds non-trivial
locking and PREEMPT_RT concerns for very little gain.
Looking at the actual amount of charge that can accumulate in a
single per-CPU stock, it is bounded and small, so leaving an
isolated CPU's stock undrained for a while is not a real problem.
The only real bug is that the stuck FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE bit
prevents future drain_all_stock() callers from re-attempting once
the CPU is no longer isolated.
Fix this minimally by clearing FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE when the work
could not be queued because the target CPU is isolated. The cached
charge itself is left in place; it will be released the next time
the CPU runs drain_local_*_stock() (e.g. after leaving isolation,
or if the isolated CPU itself calls drain_all_stock() -- in that
case cpu == curcpu causes drain_local_memcg_stock() to be invoked
directly), and the next drain_all_stock() call is free to retry
instead of skipping the stock forever.
Fixes: 6a792697a53a ("memcg: do not drain charge pcp caches on remote isolated cpus")
Signed-off-by: Hui Zhu <zhuhui@kylinos.cn>
---
Changelog:
v2:
According to the comments of Waiman Long, updated fixes.
mm/memcontrol.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index c03d4787d466..8985334565a8 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2228,7 +2228,8 @@ static bool is_memcg_drain_needed(struct memcg_stock_pcp *stock,
return flush;
}
-static void schedule_drain_work(int cpu, struct work_struct *work)
+static void
+schedule_drain_work(int cpu, struct work_struct *work, unsigned long *flags)
{
/*
* Protect housekeeping cpumask read and work enqueue together
@@ -2236,9 +2237,22 @@ static void schedule_drain_work(int cpu, struct work_struct *work)
* partition update only need to wait for an RCU GP and flush the
* pending work on newly isolated CPUs.
*/
- guard(rcu)();
- if (!cpu_is_isolated(cpu))
- queue_work_on(cpu, memcg_wq, work);
+ scoped_guard(rcu) {
+ if (!cpu_is_isolated(cpu)) {
+ queue_work_on(cpu, memcg_wq, work);
+ return;
+ }
+ }
+
+ /*
+ * The target CPU is isolated: the drain work was not queued.
+ * Clear FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE so that future drain_all_stock()
+ * callers can re-attempt instead of skipping this stock forever.
+ * The cached charge is left in place; it will be released the
+ * next time the CPU itself runs drain_local_*_stock() (e.g.
+ * after leaving isolation), or by a follow-up mechanism.
+ */
+ clear_bit(FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE, flags);
}
/*
@@ -2271,7 +2285,8 @@ void drain_all_stock(struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg)
if (cpu == curcpu)
drain_local_memcg_stock(&memcg_st->work);
else
- schedule_drain_work(cpu, &memcg_st->work);
+ schedule_drain_work(cpu, &memcg_st->work,
+ &memcg_st->flags);
}
if (!test_bit(FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE, &obj_st->flags) &&
@@ -2281,7 +2296,8 @@ void drain_all_stock(struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg)
if (cpu == curcpu)
drain_local_obj_stock(&obj_st->work);
else
- schedule_drain_work(cpu, &obj_st->work);
+ schedule_drain_work(cpu, &obj_st->work,
+ &obj_st->flags);
}
}
migrate_enable();
--
2.43.0
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* Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] memcg: multi objcg charge support
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
In-Reply-To: <20260522011908.1669332-5-shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
> 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
^ permalink raw reply
* Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] memcg: uint16_t for nr_bytes in obj_stock_pcp
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
In-Reply-To: <20260522011908.1669332-3-shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
> 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
* Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] memcg: int16_t for cached slab stats
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
In-Reply-To: <20260522011908.1669332-4-shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
> 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
* Re: [PATCH v5 12/12] mm, swap: merge zeromap into swap table
From: Kairui Song @ 2026-05-22 2:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: kasong, Kairui Song via B4 Relay, linux-mm, David Hildenbrand,
Zi Yan, Baolin Wang, Barry Song, Hugh Dickins, Chris Li,
Kemeng Shi, Nhat Pham, Baoquan He, Johannes Weiner, Youngjun Park,
Chengming Zhou, Roman Gushchin, Shakeel Butt, Muchun Song,
Usama Arif, linux-kernel, cgroups, Lorenzo Stoakes, Yosry Ahmed,
Qi Zheng
In-Reply-To: <20260521185204.a109bfcd1e0e8f52135c5ed5@linux-foundation.org>
On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 06:52:04PM +0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 17 May 2026 23:39:51 +0800 Kairui Song via B4 Relay <devnull+kasong.tencent.com@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
> >
> > By allocating one additional bit in the swap table entry's flags field
> > alongside the count, we can store the zeromap inline
> >
> > For 64 bit systems, zeromap will store in the swap table, avoiding zeromap
> > allocation. It reduces the allocated memory. That is the happy path.
> >
> > For certain 32-bit archs, there might not be enough bits in the swap
> > table to contain both PFN and flags. Therefore, conditionally let each
> > cluster have a zeromap field at build time, and use that instead.
> > If the swapfile cluster is not fully used, it will still save memory for
> > zeromap. The empty cluster does not allocate a zeromap. In the worst case,
> > all cluster are fully populated. We will use memory similar to the
> > previous zeromap implementation.
> >
> > A few macros were moved to different headers for build time struct
> > definition.
> >
> > ...
> >
> > @@ -469,13 +474,21 @@ static int swap_cluster_alloc_table(struct swap_cluster_info *ci, gfp_t gfp)
> > VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(ci->memcg_table);
> > ci->memcg_table = kzalloc_obj(*ci->memcg_table, gfp);
> > if (!ci->memcg_table)
> > - ret = -ENOMEM;
> > + goto err_free;
> > }
> > #endif
> > - if (ret)
> > - swap_cluster_free_table(ci);
> >
> > - return ret;
> > +#if !SWAP_TABLE_HAS_ZEROFLAG
> > + VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(ci->zero_bitmap);
> > + ci->zero_bitmap = bitmap_zalloc(SWAPFILE_CLUSTER, gfp);
> > + if (!ci->zero_bitmap)
> > + goto err_free;
> > +#endif
> > + return 0;
> > +
> > +err_free:
> > + swap_cluster_free_table(ci);
> > + return -ENOMEM;
> > }
>
> My m68k defconfig warned. I'll do the below, which looks good enough.
> Please check.
>
> Perhaps a custom guard() handler would clean things up here.
>
>
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Subject: mm-swap-merge-zeromap-into-swap-table-fix-2
> Date: Thu May 21 06:39:20 PM PDT 2026
>
> mm/swapfile.c: In function 'swap_cluster_alloc_table':
> mm/swapfile.c:488:1: warning: label 'err_free' defined but not used [-Wunused-label]
> 488 | err_free:
> | ^~~~~~~~
>
> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
> Cc: Barry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
> Cc: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
> Cc: Chris Li <chrisl@kernel.org>
> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@kernel.org>
> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@tencent.com>
> Cc: Kemeng Shi <shikemeng@huaweicloud.com>
> Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
> Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
> Cc: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
> Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
> Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
> Cc: Youngjun Park <youngjun.park@lge.com>
> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
>
> mm/swapfile.c | 16 ++++++++--------
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/mm/swapfile.c~mm-swap-merge-zeromap-into-swap-table-fix-2
> +++ a/mm/swapfile.c
> @@ -472,22 +472,22 @@ static int swap_cluster_alloc_table(stru
> if (!mem_cgroup_disabled()) {
> VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(ci->memcg_table);
> ci->memcg_table = kzalloc_obj(*ci->memcg_table, gfp);
> - if (!ci->memcg_table)
> - goto err_free;
> + if (!ci->memcg_table) {
> + swap_cluster_free_table(ci);
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
> }
> #endif
>
> #if !SWAP_TABLE_HAS_ZEROFLAG
> VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(ci->zero_bitmap);
> ci->zero_bitmap = bitmap_zalloc(SWAPFILE_CLUSTER, gfp);
> - if (!ci->zero_bitmap)
> - goto err_free;
> + if (!ci->zero_bitmap) {
> + swap_cluster_free_table(ci);
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + }
> #endif
> return 0;
> -
> -err_free:
> - swap_cluster_free_table(ci);
> - return -ENOMEM;
> }
>
> /*
> _
>
Looks good, thank you. The error path is still simple and
straight at the moment.
It will be even better if we also remove the now unused ret
variable as well (this isn't triggering warning yet since Kbuild
don't set unused-but-set-variable by default):
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 9712cc862c9c..615d90867111 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -450,7 +450,6 @@ static int swap_cluster_alloc_table(struct swap_cluster_info *ci, gfp_t gfp)
{
struct swap_table *table = NULL;
struct folio *folio;
- int ret = 0;
/* The cluster must be empty and not on any list during allocation. */
VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(ci->flags || !cluster_is_empty(ci));
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