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* [PATCH] mm/mglru: fix memcg protection for global proactive reclaim
@ 2026-07-23 13:05 Ridong
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From: Ridong @ 2026-07-23 13:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Morton, Johannes Weiner
  Cc: David Hildenbrand, Michal Hocko, Qi Zheng, Shakeel Butt,
	Lorenzo Stoakes, Kairui Song, Barry Song, Axel Rasmussen,
	Yuanchu Xie, Wei Xu, Yu Zhao, linux-mm, linux-kernel, Ridong Chen,
	Ridong Chen

From: Ridong Chen <chenridong@xiaomi.com>

memory.min/low is silently bypassed for MGLRU during global proactive
reclaim (writing to the root memory.reclaim). It can be reproduced as
follows:

  # echo 7 > /sys/kernel/mm/lru_gen/enabled
  # cd /sys/fs/cgroup
  # mkdir -p a/b
  # echo 100M > a/memory.min
  # echo +memory > a/cgroup.subtree_control
  # echo 100M > a/b/memory.min
  # echo $$ > a/b/cgroup.procs
  # dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/testfile bs=1M count=200
  # cat a/b/memory.current
  222650368
  # echo 500M > memory.reclaim
  -bash: echo: write error: Resource temporarily unavailable
  # cat a/b/memory.current
  6070272

memory.min is 100M, yet reclaim drops a/b down to 6M, breaking the
protection. The traditional LRU is not affected.

Commit 30d77b7eef01 ("mm/mglru: fix ineffective protection calculation")
computes the memcg protection in lru_gen_age_node(), which only runs for
kswapd. Global proactive reclaim reaches shrink_one() through
lru_gen_shrink_node() without any aging step, so emin/elow is not
couputed,

Factor the tree traversal out into update_memcg_protection() and call
it from lru_gen_shrink_node() for the non-kswapd path, so the protection
is computed before shrinking. kswapd keeps computing it in
lru_gen_age_node(), which also needs it for the min_ttl OOM check.

Fixes: e4dde56cd208 ("mm: multi-gen LRU: per-node lru_gen_folio lists")
Signed-off-by: Ridong Chen <chenridong@xiaomi.com>
---
 mm/vmscan.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/vmscan.c b/mm/vmscan.c
index 06e103f9781e..dc3549583e97 100644
--- a/mm/vmscan.c
+++ b/mm/vmscan.c
@@ -4122,6 +4122,16 @@ static bool lruvec_is_reclaimable(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc
 	return time_is_before_jiffies(birth + min_ttl);
 }
 
+static void update_memcg_protection(void)
+{
+	struct mem_cgroup *memcg;
+
+	memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL);
+	do {
+		mem_cgroup_calculate_protection(NULL, memcg);
+	} while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL)));
+}
+
 /* to protect the working set of the last N jiffies */
 static unsigned long lru_gen_min_ttl __read_mostly;
 
@@ -4135,15 +4145,19 @@ static void lru_gen_age_node(struct pglist_data *pgdat, struct scan_control *sc)
 
 	set_initial_priority(pgdat, sc);
 
-	memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL);
-	do {
-		struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, pgdat);
+	update_memcg_protection();
 
-		mem_cgroup_calculate_protection(NULL, memcg);
+	if (min_ttl) {
+		memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, NULL, NULL);
+		do {
+			struct lruvec *lruvec = mem_cgroup_lruvec(memcg, pgdat);
 
-		if (!reclaimable)
-			reclaimable = lruvec_is_reclaimable(lruvec, sc, min_ttl);
-	} while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL)));
+			if (lruvec_is_reclaimable(lruvec, sc, min_ttl)) {
+				reclaimable = true;
+				break;
+			}
+		} while ((memcg = mem_cgroup_iter(NULL, memcg, NULL)));
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * The main goal is to OOM kill if every generation from all memcgs is
@@ -5004,7 +5018,7 @@ static int shrink_one(struct lruvec *lruvec, struct scan_control *sc)
 	struct mem_cgroup *memcg = lruvec_memcg(lruvec);
 	struct pglist_data *pgdat = lruvec_pgdat(lruvec);
 
-	/* lru_gen_age_node() called mem_cgroup_calculate_protection() */
+	/* update_memcg_protection() computed the protection */
 	if (mem_cgroup_below_min(NULL, memcg))
 		return MEMCG_LRU_YOUNG;
 
@@ -5151,8 +5165,11 @@ static void lru_gen_shrink_node(struct pglist_data *pgdat, struct scan_control *
 
 	set_initial_priority(pgdat, sc);
 
+	/* kswapd called update_memcg_protection in lru_gen_age_node */
 	if (current_is_kswapd())
 		sc->nr_reclaimed = 0;
+	else
+		update_memcg_protection();
 
 	if (mem_cgroup_disabled())
 		shrink_one(&pgdat->__lruvec, sc);
-- 
2.34.1


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