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From: Tao Cui <cui.tao@linux.dev>
To: Ridong <ridong.chen@linux.dev>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>,
	Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>,
	Shakeel Butt <shakeel.butt@linux.dev>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: cui.tao@linux.dev, "Muchun Song" <muchun.song@linux.dev>,
	"David Finkel" <davidf@vimeo.com>,
	"Michal Koutný" <mkoutny@suse.com>, "Tejun Heo" <tj@kernel.org>,
	cgroups@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Ridong Chen" <chenridong@xiaomi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm, memcg: fix memory.peak reset clobbering other fds' watermark
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:16:49 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d47fa11a-54de-4768-ad15-0c7127cd5b01@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260730115314.1069089-1-ridong.chen@linux.dev>



在 2026/7/30 19:53, Ridong 写道:
> From: Ridong Chen <chenridong@xiaomi.com>
> 
> Writing to memory.peak resets the peak for that fd only. Each fd is a
> watcher and reads back max(its own value, the shared local_watermark).
> 
> peak_write() resets by lowering local_watermark to the current usage.
> To keep the other watchers' peaks it then walks the watcher list, but it
> stores the current usage into them instead of the old watermark. So once
> usage has dropped from a peak, a reset on one fd wrongly drags every
> other fd's peak down too, even fds that never reset.
> 
> Reproduced on 7.2.0-rc5-next under QEMU, two fds A and B on one cgroup:
> B sees the peak (410624 KB), usage drops, then A resets -- and B's peak
> collapses to 1060 KB although B never reset. With this patch B keeps
> reading 410624 KB.
> 
> Fix: save the old watermark before lowering it and use that to floor the
> other watchers, so a reset only affects the fd that issued it.
> 
> Fixes: c6f53ed8f213 ("mm, memcg: cg2 memory{.swap,}.peak write handlers")
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
> Signed-off-by: Ridong Chen <chenridong@xiaomi.com>
> ---
>  mm/memcontrol.c | 7 ++++---
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
> index 60145aadfc5e..881e7c459c64 100644
> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c
> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
> @@ -4692,7 +4692,7 @@ static ssize_t peak_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf, size_t nbytes,
>  			  loff_t off, struct page_counter *pc,
>  			  struct list_head *watchers)
>  {
> -	unsigned long usage;
> +	unsigned long usage, old_watermark;
>  	struct cgroup_of_peak *peer_ctx;
>  	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = mem_cgroup_from_css(of_css(of));
>  	struct cgroup_of_peak *ofp = of_peak(of);
> @@ -4700,11 +4700,12 @@ static ssize_t peak_write(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf, size_t nbytes,
>  	spin_lock(&memcg->peaks_lock);
>  
>  	usage = page_counter_read(pc);
> +	old_watermark = READ_ONCE(pc->local_watermark);
>  	WRITE_ONCE(pc->local_watermark, usage);
>  
>  	list_for_each_entry(peer_ctx, watchers, list)
> -		if (usage > peer_ctx->value)
> -			WRITE_ONCE(peer_ctx->value, usage);
> +		if (peer_ctx != ofp && old_watermark > peer_ctx->value)
> +			WRITE_ONCE(peer_ctx->value, old_watermark);
>  
>  	/* initial write, register watcher */
>  	if (ofp->value == OFP_PEAK_UNSET)
Acked-by: Tao Cui <cuitao@kylinos.cn>



  reply	other threads:[~2026-07-30 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-30 11:53 [PATCH] mm, memcg: fix memory.peak reset clobbering other fds' watermark Ridong
2026-07-30 15:16 ` Tao Cui [this message]
2026-07-30 16:03 ` Johannes Weiner

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