From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>, Alexandre Ghiti <alex@ghiti.fr>,
Joshua Hahn <joshua.hahnjy@gmail.com>,
Harry Yoo <harry@kernel.org>,
Meta kernel team <kernel-team@meta.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] memcg: uint16_t for nr_bytes in obj_stock_pcp
Date: Tue, 19 May 2026 22:31:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260520053123.2709959-3-shakeel.butt@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260520053123.2709959-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
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.
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index d7c162946719..b3d63d9f267c 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2019,7 +2019,7 @@ static DEFINE_PER_CPU_ALIGNED(struct memcg_stock_pcp, memcg_stock) = {
struct obj_stock_pcp {
local_trylock_t lock;
- unsigned int nr_bytes;
+ uint16_t nr_bytes;
struct obj_cgroup *cached_objcg;
int16_t node_id;
int nr_slab_reclaimable_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)
--
2.53.0-Meta
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-20 5:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-20 5:31 [PATCH 0/4] memcg: shrink obj_stock_pcp and cache multiple objcgs Shakeel Butt
2026-05-20 5:31 ` [PATCH 1/4] memcg: store node_id instead of pglist_data pointer Shakeel Butt
2026-05-20 6:01 ` Harry Yoo
2026-05-20 6:13 ` Muchun Song
2026-05-20 5:31 ` Shakeel Butt [this message]
2026-05-20 6:41 ` [PATCH 2/4] memcg: uint16_t for nr_bytes in obj_stock_pcp Harry Yoo
2026-05-20 7:01 ` Harry Yoo
2026-05-21 1:01 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-05-20 13:20 ` David Laight
2026-05-21 1:03 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-05-20 5:31 ` [PATCH 3/4] memcg: int16_t for cached slab stats Shakeel Butt
2026-05-20 7:25 ` Harry Yoo
2026-05-20 5:31 ` [PATCH 4/4] memcg: multi objcg charge support Shakeel Butt
2026-05-20 9:35 ` Harry Yoo
2026-05-21 1:05 ` Shakeel Butt
2026-05-21 1:43 ` Harry Yoo
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