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From: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
To: Guopeng Zhang <guopeng.zhang@linux.dev>
Cc: shakeel.butt@linux.dev, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	hannes@cmpxchg.org, roman.gushchin@linux.dev,
	muchun.song@linux.dev, cgroups@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Guopeng Zhang <zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: memcg-v1: fix memory.memsw.failcnt accounting
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:04:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <annMVxXm4tZ4h4FZ@tiehlicka> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260810074247.52747-1-guopeng.zhang@linux.dev>

On Mon 10-08-26 15:42:47, Guopeng Zhang wrote:
> From: Guopeng Zhang <zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn>
> 
> Commit 0e2759afcaf9 ("page_counter: track failcnt only for legacy
> cgroups") made failcnt accounting conditional on track_failcnt. It
> enabled the flag for memcg->memory, but not for memcg->memsw.
> 
> Consequently, memory.memsw.failcnt remains zero when the memory+swap
> limit is hit. Enable failcnt accounting for the v1 memsw counter.
> 
> Reproducer:
> 
>     CG=/sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memsw-test
>     LIMIT=33554432
>     mkdir "$CG"
>     echo "$LIMIT" > "$CG/memory.limit_in_bytes"
>     echo "$LIMIT" > "$CG/memory.memsw.limit_in_bytes"
> 
> Start a child process in the cgroup and make it allocate and touch 96 MiB
> of memory, causing a memcg OOM.
> 
>     cat "$CG/memory.memsw.failcnt"
> 
> Without the patch, memory.memsw.failcnt is 0. With the patch,
> memory.memsw.failcnt is greater than 0.
> 
> Fixes: 0e2759afcaf9 ("page_counter: track failcnt only for legacy cgroups")
> Signed-off-by: Guopeng Zhang <zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn>

Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Thanks!

> ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 6939a4fbb991..4ffe5b3733d9 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -4235,6 +4235,7 @@ mem_cgroup_css_alloc(struct cgroup_subsys_state *parent_css)
>  #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);
> -- 
> 2.43.0

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs


      reply	other threads:[~2026-08-10 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-10  7:42 [PATCH] mm: memcg-v1: fix memory.memsw.failcnt accounting Guopeng Zhang
2026-08-10 13:04 ` Michal Hocko [this message]

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