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"Michal Hocko" <mhocko@kernel.org>,
"Roman Gushchin" <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
"Shakeel Butt" <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
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"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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"Liam R. Howlett" <liam@infradead.org>,
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"Maarten Lankhorst" <dev@lankhorst.se>,
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"Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>, "Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>,
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Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org,
linuszeng <linuszeng@tencent.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] mm: page_counter: add page_counter_protection struct and init API
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:44:19 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260909-descriptive-name-v2-1-d7dd7c099049@tencent.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260909-descriptive-name-v2-0-d7dd7c099049@tencent.com>
From: linuszeng <linuszeng@tencent.com>
This commit extracts the hierarchical protection state (memory.min and
memory.low) from struct page_counter into a new page_counter_protection
structure. It introduces page_counter_init_protection() to attach this
context, saving space for counters that don't support protection.
The dmem pool allocator now points its counter at the embedded
protection context, and the pool fix-up path in get_cg_pool_locked()
links the new prot->parent the same way it links cnt.parent, so pools
created bottom-up do not lose hierarchical protection.
No functional change.
---
include/linux/memcontrol.h | 7 ++++++
include/linux/page_counter.h | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
kernel/cgroup/dmem.c | 9 ++++---
mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c | 4 +--
mm/memcontrol.c | 21 ++++++++++------
mm/page_counter.c | 2 +-
6 files changed, 82 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/memcontrol.h b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
index 058ebd73ff16..ed863f4ed233 100644
--- a/include/linux/memcontrol.h
+++ b/include/linux/memcontrol.h
@@ -195,6 +195,13 @@ struct mem_cgroup {
/* Accounted resources */
struct page_counter memory; /* Both v1 & v2 */
+ /*
+ * Hierarchical memory.min/memory.low protection tracking for the
+ * memory page counter. swap/memsw, kmem and tcpmem counters do not
+ * support protection and have no such context.
+ */
+ struct page_counter_protection memory_prot;
+
union {
struct page_counter swap; /* v2 only */
struct page_counter memsw; /* v1 only */
diff --git a/include/linux/page_counter.h b/include/linux/page_counter.h
index 07b7cb12249c..b81f16702764 100644
--- a/include/linux/page_counter.h
+++ b/include/linux/page_counter.h
@@ -7,6 +7,32 @@
#include <linux/limits.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
+/*
+ * Hierarchical protection (memory.min / memory.low) tracking.
+ *
+ * Only the memory page counter (and dmem pools) participate in protection.
+ * swap/memsw, kmem and tcpmem page counters never do, so the protection
+ * fields are kept out of struct page_counter in this separate structure to
+ * save space in the common case. struct page_counter links to it via ->prot,
+ * which is NULL for counters without protection support.
+ */
+struct page_counter_protection {
+ struct page_counter_protection *parent;
+
+ /* effective memory.min and memory.min usage tracking */
+ unsigned long emin;
+ atomic_long_t min_usage;
+ atomic_long_t children_min_usage;
+
+ /* effective memory.low and memory.low usage tracking */
+ unsigned long elow;
+ atomic_long_t low_usage;
+ atomic_long_t children_low_usage;
+
+ unsigned long min;
+ unsigned long low;
+};
+
struct page_counter {
/*
* Make sure 'usage' does not share cacheline with any other field in
@@ -41,6 +67,12 @@ struct page_counter {
unsigned long high;
unsigned long max;
struct page_counter *parent;
+
+ /*
+ * Hierarchical protection context, NULL for counters that do not
+ * support memory.min/memory.low (swap, memsw, kmem, tcpmem, ...).
+ */
+ struct page_counter_protection *prot;
} ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp;
#if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
@@ -49,18 +81,33 @@ struct page_counter {
#define PAGE_COUNTER_MAX (LONG_MAX / PAGE_SIZE)
#endif
-/*
- * Protection is supported only for the first counter (with id 0).
- */
static inline void page_counter_init(struct page_counter *counter,
- struct page_counter *parent,
- bool protection_support)
+ struct page_counter *parent)
{
counter->usage = (atomic_long_t)ATOMIC_LONG_INIT(0);
counter->max = PAGE_COUNTER_MAX;
counter->parent = parent;
- counter->protection_support = protection_support;
counter->track_failcnt = false;
+ counter->prot = NULL;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Enable hierarchical protection (memory.min/memory.low) on @counter.
+ * @prot and @parent are the protection contexts of @counter and its
+ * parent page counter respectively. Only the memory page counter (and
+ * dmem pools) call this.
+ *
+ * The remaining members of @prot (emin, elow and the usage counters) are
+ * expected to be zero already, so @prot must come from zeroed memory.
+ */
+static inline void page_counter_init_protection(struct page_counter *counter,
+ struct page_counter_protection *prot,
+ struct page_counter_protection *parent)
+{
+ counter->prot = prot;
+ prot->parent = parent;
+ prot->min = 0;
+ prot->low = 0;
}
static inline unsigned long page_counter_read(struct page_counter *counter)
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup/dmem.c b/kernel/cgroup/dmem.c
index 4683f3d68022..a4bac0d5ac3b 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup/dmem.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup/dmem.c
@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state {
struct rcu_head rcu;
struct page_counter cnt;
+ struct page_counter_protection prot;
struct dmem_cgroup_pool_state *parent;
refcount_t ref;
@@ -426,8 +427,9 @@ alloc_pool_single(struct dmemcg_state *dmemcs, struct dmem_cgroup_region *region
if (parent)
ppool = find_cg_pool_locked(parent, region);
- page_counter_init(&pool->cnt,
- ppool ? &ppool->cnt : NULL, true);
+ page_counter_init(&pool->cnt, ppool ? &ppool->cnt : NULL);
+ page_counter_init_protection(&pool->cnt, &pool->prot,
+ ppool ? &ppool->prot : NULL);
reset_all_resource_limits(pool);
refcount_set(&pool->ref, 1);
kref_get(®ion->ref);
@@ -480,8 +482,9 @@ get_cg_pool_locked(struct dmemcg_state *dmemcs, struct dmem_cgroup_region *regio
/* ppool was created if it didn't exist by above loop. */
ppool = find_cg_pool_locked(pp, region);
- /* Fix up parent links, mark as inited. */
+ /* Fix up parent links (counter and protection), mark as inited. */
pool->cnt.parent = &ppool->cnt;
+ pool->prot.parent = &ppool->prot;
if (ppool && !pool->parent) {
pool->parent = ppool;
dmemcg_pool_get(ppool);
diff --git a/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c b/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c
index ecb6e0b7819a..7fdae504cfc6 100644
--- a/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c
+++ b/mm/hugetlb_cgroup.c
@@ -108,8 +108,8 @@ static void hugetlb_cgroup_init(struct hugetlb_cgroup *h_cgroup,
fault = hugetlb_cgroup_counter_from_cgroup(h_cgroup, idx);
rsvd = hugetlb_cgroup_counter_from_cgroup_rsvd(h_cgroup, idx);
- page_counter_init(fault, fault_parent, false);
- page_counter_init(rsvd, rsvd_parent, false);
+ page_counter_init(fault, fault_parent);
+ page_counter_init(rsvd, rsvd_parent);
if (!cgroup_subsys_on_dfl(hugetlb_cgrp_subsys)) {
fault->track_failcnt = true;
diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 86ff580c7018..ffa1ced3baae 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -4267,25 +4267,30 @@ mem_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent_css)
#endif
page_counter_set_high(&memcg->swap, PAGE_COUNTER_MAX);
if (parent) {
- page_counter_init(&memcg->memory, &parent->memory, memcg_on_dfl);
- page_counter_init(&memcg->swap, &parent->swap, false);
+ page_counter_init(&memcg->memory, &parent->memory);
+ if (memcg_on_dfl)
+ page_counter_init_protection(&memcg->memory, &memcg->memory_prot,
+ &parent->memory_prot);
+ page_counter_init(&memcg->swap, &parent->swap);
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_V1
WRITE_ONCE(memcg->swappiness, mem_cgroup_swappiness(parent));
memcg->memory.track_failcnt = !memcg_on_dfl;
memcg->memsw.track_failcnt = !memcg_on_dfl;
WRITE_ONCE(memcg->oom_kill_disable, READ_ONCE(parent->oom_kill_disable));
- page_counter_init(&memcg->kmem, &parent->kmem, false);
- page_counter_init(&memcg->tcpmem, &parent->tcpmem, false);
+ page_counter_init(&memcg->kmem, &parent->kmem);
+ page_counter_init(&memcg->tcpmem, &parent->tcpmem);
memcg->tcpmem.track_failcnt = !memcg_on_dfl;
#endif
} else {
init_memcg_stats();
init_memcg_events();
- page_counter_init(&memcg->memory, NULL, true);
- page_counter_init(&memcg->swap, NULL, false);
+ page_counter_init(&memcg->memory, NULL);
+ page_counter_init_protection(&memcg->memory, &memcg->memory_prot,
+ NULL);
+ page_counter_init(&memcg->swap, NULL);
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMCG_V1
- page_counter_init(&memcg->kmem, NULL, false);
- page_counter_init(&memcg->tcpmem, NULL, false);
+ page_counter_init(&memcg->kmem, NULL);
+ page_counter_init(&memcg->tcpmem, NULL);
#endif
root_mem_cgroup = memcg;
return &memcg->css;
diff --git a/mm/page_counter.c b/mm/page_counter.c
index 450543f4b318..38cb99f5f50e 100644
--- a/mm/page_counter.c
+++ b/mm/page_counter.c
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
static bool track_protection(struct page_counter *c)
{
- return c->protection_support;
+ return c->prot != NULL;
}
static void propagate_protected_usage(struct page_counter *c,
--
2.43.7
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