From: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
Qi Zheng <qi.zheng@linux.dev>,
Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
Meta kernel team <kernel-team@meta.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] memcg: clear FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE on cpu offline
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:24:19 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260828192419.3057939-1-shakeel.butt@linux.dev> (raw)
Sashiko [1] reported that memcg_hotplug_cpu_dead() drains the stocks
of the CPU which went away but leaves FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE alone.
The flag can be set at that point: drain_all_stock() may have claimed
the stock and queued the drain work shortly before the CPU went down.
workqueue_offline_cpu() unbinds the per-cpu workers, so such a pending
work item is executed by an unbound worker on some other CPU, where
drain_local_memcg_stock() operates on this_cpu_ptr() and thus drains
and clears the flag of that other CPU instead. Nothing clears the flag
of the dead CPU, so drain_all_stock() would skip its stock forever once
the CPU comes back online.
Clear the flag of both stocks after draining them.
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>
Reported-by: Sashiko <sashiko-bot@kernel.org>
Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260828135036.7d44361f%40fangorn [1]
---
mm/memcontrol.c | 16 ++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index e082aa68fa5c..872115c6b0f2 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -2378,9 +2378,21 @@ void drain_all_stock(struct mem_cgroup *root_memcg)
static int memcg_hotplug_cpu_dead(unsigned int cpu)
{
+ struct memcg_stock_pcp *memcg_st = &per_cpu(memcg_stock, cpu);
+ struct obj_stock_pcp *obj_st = &per_cpu(obj_stock, cpu);
+
/* no need for the local lock */
- drain_obj_stock(&per_cpu(obj_stock, cpu));
- drain_stock_fully(&per_cpu(memcg_stock, cpu));
+ drain_obj_stock(obj_st);
+ drain_stock_fully(memcg_st);
+
+ /*
+ * A drain work queued before the CPU went away is executed by an
+ * unbound worker on some other CPU and clears that CPU's flag, so
+ * clear the flags here to make these stocks drainable again once
+ * the CPU comes back online.
+ */
+ clear_bit(FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE, &memcg_st->flags);
+ clear_bit(FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE, &obj_st->flags);
return 0;
}
--
2.53.0-Meta
next reply other threads:[~2026-08-28 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-28 19:24 Shakeel Butt [this message]
2026-08-28 19:53 ` [PATCH] memcg: clear FLUSHING_CACHED_CHARGE on cpu offline Rik van Riel
2026-08-31 8:56 ` Michal Hocko
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