From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
To: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: jiayuan.chen@linux.dev, Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] mm: memcg: reset zswap settings in css_reset
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:08:30 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260630100832.107062-1-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev> (raw)
From: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
mem_cgroup_css_reset() is called when the memory controller is disabled
on a cgroup but the memcg cannot be destroyed because it is pinned by a
subsystem dependency -- for example, the io controller declares
.depends_on = 1 << memory_cgrp_id, so memory remains in the cgroup_ss_mask
and the css is hidden rather than killed.
The purpose of css_reset is to revert the memcg to its vanilla state so
that no policies are applied and the css can be safely made visible again
later. Currently, all page counters (memory.max, swap.max, kmem.max,
tcpmem.max) and other limits (soft_limit, memory.high, swap.high) are
reset to their defaults, but zswap_max and zswap_writeback are not.
These fields are initialized in css_alloc (zswap_max = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX,
zswap_writeback inherited from parent) but were missing from css_reset.
As a result, stale zswap policies remain in effect after css_reset: the
zswap charge path (obj_cgroup_may_zswap) continues to enforce the old
zswap_max limit, and the writeback path continues to honor the old
zswap_writeback setting, even though the memory controller has been
"disabled" on this cgroup.
Reset zswap_max to PAGE_COUNTER_MAX and zswap_writeback to true, matching
their defaults in css_alloc.
Test:
echo "+memory +io" > /sys/fs/cgroup/cgroup.subtree_control
mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test
mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/test/child
echo "+memory +io" > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.subtree_control
echo 10000 > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/child/memory.zswap.max
# child/memory.swap.max and child/memory.zswam.max disappear
echo "-memory" > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.subtree_control
# re-enable memory control
echo "+memory" > /sys/fs/cgroup/test/cgroup.subtree_control
# before this patch
cat /sys/fs/cgroup/test/child/memory.zswap.max
8192
# after this patch, same as memory.swap.max
cat /sys/fs/cgroup/test/child/memory.zswap.max
max
Cc: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@shopee.com>
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index d20ffc827306..eeeb22a5e8cc 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4362,6 +4362,10 @@ static void mem_cgroup_css_reset(struct cgroup_subsys_state *css)
page_counter_set_max(&memcg->memory, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX);
page_counter_set_max(&memcg->swap, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX);
+#ifdef CONFIG_ZSWAP
+ memcg->zswap_max = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;
+ WRITE_ONCE(memcg->zswap_writeback, true);
+#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_V1
page_counter_set_max(&memcg->kmem, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX);
page_counter_set_max(&memcg->tcpmem, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX);
--
2.43.0
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